A pictorial look at John Ryan's expresses on his immense O gauge layout. John Ryan is a man of many passions, steam railways and modelling on a grand scale is certainly one of them.
OVER PEOVER
John Ryan
FACT FILE
Layout Name: Over Peover
Scale/Gauge: O
Size: 75' x 30'
Era/Region: 1930s and 1950s/60s East Coast
Layout Type: Continuous loops
John's other passion is football and he currently holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest footballer to appear for a professional British club when he came on as a substitute in the 89th minute for Doncaster Rovers against Hereford United in a Conference National match on 26 April, 2003, at the age of 52 years and 11 months! John's a Doncaster man through and through and was the Chairman of Doncaster Rovers for 15 years; this translates into a love of railways with an East Coast mainline bias.
Over Peover is far away from Doncaster, a small Cheshire village that John calls home from which the layout project takes its name - one of the largest privately-owned model railways in the country, which gives plenty of opportunity for scale-length expresses to stretch their legs with a full-size terminus as a centrepiece - based on Kings Cross. The station has 23' long platforms with an overall roof with a throat running out into two different directions wrapping around a double oval and outside helix.
BIG FOUR ERA
BRITISH RAILWAYS ERA
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