Video: By train around the garden. A scaled-down copy of a real railroad by Bill Barritt
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
British pensioner Bill Barrittis probably the only person in the United Kingdom who can boast that he owns the railroad. The most real, albeit miniature. The old man, who recently turned 80 years old, built it with his own hands in three years, having spent about 30 thousand dollars on this project. Now his garden is surrounded by 1, 2-mile rails, on which a train of eight cars runs. Bill Barritt has loved trains since childhood, ever since he was a little boy and traveled with his family around the country. The boy's favorite pastime was to sit at the station and admire the trains passing by, so noisy, heavy, majestic. And his own railway has been his cherished dream since that very carefree time of barefoot childhood. Fortunately, cherished dreams are destined to come true, even after many decades, and now Bill Barritt at any time can go to the site in front of the house and ride in his own train on his own railway.
The "home" railway, an exact copy of the original version, was built by the pensioner using his own savings. The main thing he wanted to achieve was to make not a toy model, but a functioning one. So that passengers can be accommodated in the carriages, and the driver can control the locomotive. So that the traffic lights turn on and off, and the barriers go down and go up. So that everything is real, like in life. And so it happened, and now Bill Barritt's 12 grandchildren, the neighbour's children, and he himself, are happy to ride the train in a huge garden that stretches over 13 acres.
Naturally, as soon as a miniature copy of a real railway appeared on the suburban area of Bill Barritt, its fame spread throughout the district. Today, the "real toy train" is a local landmark, which the 80-year-old author of the project is incredibly happy about.
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