MODEL RAILWAY DE LUXE

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4348, 18 January 1938, Page 7

MODEL RAILWAY DE LUXE

One of the attractions of the Palace of Railways at the Paris Exhibition is the 20yd model of the cross-Channel ferry. Here a complete journey from London to Paris, or vice versa, is shown. “We see the train,” says ‘ News From France,’ “ steam out of Victoria station and run through a delightfully modelled mmature replica of England to Dover, with its white cliffs. Here the tiny train is shunted on to an exact model of the Channel ferry boat, measuring about 2ft in length. With wonderful realism, as though manoeuvred by a crew, the ferry boat makes its way out of the harbour and sails across real water to Dunkirk, where it is steered into a lock, raised to the height of the railway line, and the train transferred to land, where we see a tiny locomotive go through all the movements of coupling before the train races off across another replica in miniature of a journey, this time through the north of France, past Amiens with its cathedral, Chantilly with its chateau. at last to disappear behind the heights of Montmartre crowned by the church of the Sacre Coeur, before steaming into the Nord station at Paris.