Tony Miles RIP

[Hunslet 102]

Just noticed a thread on RM Web that Tony Miles of Adavoyle Junction fame has passed away.May he rest in peace.

[Garfield]

RIP... probably the finest Irish outline modeller of them all.

[Broithe]

Adavoyle Junction is a fine monument.

[RedRich]

RIP... probably the finest Irish outline modeller of them all.

 

Agreed Pat, a great man and a gent.

 

Rich,

[Mayner]

I saw Adavoyle Junction in its early stages at a model railway exhibition in Bristol about 25 years ago, the minute he saw I was interested Tony invited me in to have a play and explain how his locos were built.

[Kirley]

I just knew of him as Tony Miles, the maker of Adavoyle Junction. Regrettably I have only seen pictures of this fantastic layout but it was an inspiration to me. The modelling skills of Tony Miles have rarely been matched.

[Weshty]

I thought I recognised that name and then the hallowed words "Avadoyle" were mentioned. Probably the finest irish layout ever made, and I've had the great pleasure of seeing it in extreme closeup.

 

May he rest in peace.

[StevieB]

A number of years ago I had the pleasure of seeing Adavoyle in the flesh at its then home above Tony's garage in Shropshire. What a pleasure it was. Irish P4 modelling before P4 had been established.

Stephen

[heirflick]

just looked up pics of his work on Adavoyle Junction. a superb layout and a fine tribute to the man. may he rest in peace.

[wexfordloco10]

May he Rest in Peace

David Wexford

[islandbridgejct]

That's sad to hear. He got me started modelling again 3 years ago, when I saw Adavoyle at the South Dublin exhibition. He started talking to me as I was looking at the layout and got into more detail when he found I knew a bit about GNR loco classes (not enough.) A fascinating chat - I ended up looking at the underside of a UG (I think, might have been an SG), and the weight of it was something else; but he talked about his time on submarines and being based in Derry during the war. I had to bend double to get low enough to hear him. He had some class comments about Bob Essery and Heckmondwyke too. A great modeler, and very sad to think he's gone.

 

Not much progress by me of late, which is a shame after the inspiration he provided.

 

A

[RedRich]

Scalefour News 183 dropped through the letterbox an hour ago. A lovely obituary to Tony Miles and a piece on the original Adavoyle. Some picks of rolling stock and a loco stripped down showing the shear scale of the engineering in building it.

 

Rich,