Dave Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 The legendary Bob Symes passed away this morning. I remember him well from my youth and watching him on TV with my Dad. Quote
Joe Keegan Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 I met Bob at Cultra in 2004 . Adavoyle Junction and Belturbet was also on show at Cultra . We had a great discussion on building a garden live steam tram engine using a osmotor and Mamod boiler. We spent a good 20 minutes talking and he was in no rush to go . He was on Mark Founds Garden Railway series which son number 1 enjoyed and watched every day like every young child would watch their favorite video / dvd . He was delighted to meet Bob in person and had his photo taken with him . The 4 year old back then still remembers meeting Bob 10 years later . I still have the model railway video's recorded from the TV series in the 80's . Tomorrows World was where I first saw Bob on the TV . Quote
Blaine Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 Sad news, he was an ambassador for railways and railway modelling in general. Was good on tomorrows world too Quote
josefstadt Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 Robert Alexander Baron Schutzmann von Schutzmansdorff. Indeed he was a great ambassador for all thins to do with modelling. Equally at home presenting programmes in English or German. RIP. Quote
irishthump Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 Ah that's sad.... I must have watched his Model World video on Youtube a hundred times! A pleasant chap with a genuine love and enthusiasm for model trains of all shaoes, sizes and gauges! Quote
Broithe Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 Sad news, he was an ambassador for railways and railway modelling in general. Was good on tomorrows world too Very sad, indeed - back when presenters were expected to really know about things. Both he and Raymond Baxter will never be equalled. It is a bygone time... Quote
Warbonnet Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 RIP Bob. Great for the hobby and was lucky to enjoy such a long life. Quote
hurricanemk1c Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 I still have somes of his videos on Model Railways - always had a voice that indicated you could do it. Very sad to hear Quote
StevieB Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 He was a fine modeller - does anyone remember his layout Payerbrook & Fairlie, which featured two stations, later extended to three, plus a tramway - quite delightful. I believe that he was also involved in the unsuccessful first attempt to re-open the Carlisle to Edinburgh line as the Border Counties Railway. Stephen Quote
Mayner Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 He was certainly innovative in his modelling breaking the boundaries with a diesel electric and diesel? hydraulic powered Brush Type 4 & Hymek in the early 1970s. The design and construction of the Class 47 was covered in a detailed series of articles in Model Railways magazine, used to look forward as a teenager to colleting the latest edition every month from Southern Model Railways Grafton Arcade. Quote
leslie10646 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 I met the great Bob at a Pangbourne College Founders' day twenty years ago, when my son was a pupil there. My wife, who is a professional home economist (we'd say COOK!) persuaded him that as she RE-ENGINEERED food, in the course of making a dish, she therefore was as much an engineer as him! They had a great bit of banter. A truly lovely and talented man, who will be missed, but remembered with great affection. He had his model (some enormous scale) working Brush 4 diesel with him - engineering in miniature if I ever saw it! Leslie Quote
burnthebox Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Sad news, a truly magnificent modeller, a sad loss, his skills were renowned worldwide, RIP Quote
GSR 800 Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 He was a great man.I remember watching one of his videos in constructing a model railway.I tried to look for more vids but could not find them anywhere.he truly was at the heart of the hobby. Quote
Broithe Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 Nice obituary on page 355 of the current, April 2015, edition of Railway Modeller*. *The one with Arigna Town in. Quote
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