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The Great Model Railway Challenge Season 2 Episodes

Season 2 Episode Guide

8 Episodes 2019 - 2019

Episode 1

Heat 1: The Restless Earth

54 mins

The model railway competition returns. In the first of 8 themed rounds, 3 teams of modellers create volcanoes, earthquakes and other small-scale natural disasters to fit the topic of "The Restless Earth".

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Episode 2

Heat 2: Classic Books

55 mins

Three teams create best sellers based on the books of Lawrence of Arabia, H.G. Wells and Agatha Christie, featuring Roman ruins, alien motherships and the Orient Express.

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Episode 3

Heat 3: The Best of British

54 mins

Given the task of creating layouts on the theme of Best of British this week's teams create a bucolic landscape of crochet trees, massive replicas of Kings Cross and St Pancras station, and a fiendishly technical haggis delivery system.

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Episode 4

Heat 4: Uncharted Territory

55 mins

This week's three teams of modellers take a magical mystery train tour through a jungle action adventure, a historic flood in 1950s Zeeland and a quarry that reaches the centre of the Earth.

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Episode 5

Heat 5: The Sky's the Limit

55 mins

The fifth and final heat sees the three teams build a steam-punk layout set on a lunar colony, an alpine layout and one set on an alien world.

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Episode 6

Semi-final 1: Myths, Monsters, Legends and Fables

55 mins

The first semi-final features the Loch Ness monster visiting Godzilla and King Kong, a theatrical interpretation of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, and a child's bedroom with a huge devil tree bursting through the floor.

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Episode 7

Semi-final 2: Blockbusters

55 mins

The second batch of semi-finalists have to create blockbuster layouts based on Harry Potter, James Bond and Jurassic Park.

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Episode 8

The Final: Surprise Surprise

66 mins

The 4 teams of finalists must build a new layout for the final - and then connect it to their layouts from the heats and the semi-finals. One model train must make the journey across all three of the team's layouts. Who will win the prize?

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