Hello and welcome to my first blog around Leith Central and my modelling projects.

The Background.

In a parallel universe somewhere the Waverley Route is still open in 1991 and Leith Central Station is located 90 degrees round from its current position on the other side of Leith Walk and retained to relieve traffic pressures on Edinburgh Waverley and handle the East side of Scotlands parcels traffic. Forming the point of a triangle from Abbeyhill and Powderhall (curve closed and in the process of track recovery) the 5 platform station handles mostly Scottish Internal passenger traffic as well as all terminating services from the Waverley Route which are worked from the Trans-Pennine pool at Crewe Diesel.

Daily passenger services see loco haulage from class 37s and 47s with occasional rare appearances from classes 26, 31 and even 45s. Supported by 1st and 2nd generation DMUs

Freight wise helicopter parts, cement traffic, speedlink and MOD traffic work as required into the nearby yard as well as engineers trains from the work lifting the Powderhall Curve and redeveloping the site for Binliner traffic.

The fleet also contains a good stud of steam locos to support the ELMRC layouts and steam running sessions with the stud of 4 V3s forming the core of this side of the fleet. 3 have been renumbered to Scottish examples including Berwick Pet 67690. Pride and joy of the steam fleet is a renumbered and weather Bachmann 9F as Carlisle 92019 which is one of few 9Fs known to have worked to the Edinburgh area.

Anyway the current areas of work vary from the tedious to the intricate.

The process of building up the 1st board area to platform height continues with only 1 piece of styrene then 5mm card then 1mm plasticard top as a base. This construction can be seen over my past few uploads. As this develops im slowly getting base road paint and Metcalf paving slabs in place to divide up this long slow job.

On the work bench currently are a set of ticket gates for platform 1 that require painting and some wills platform edging to complete the buffer ends and edge of platform 1.

This is just a quick overview ill post some more in depth blogs as I make progress.

Thanks for reading and feel free to check out the videos