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David Bell

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  1. Hi Andy. Best of luck with the building work and the new layout in Baby Pod. Will look out for your next thread Cheers David
  2. It's been allocated to the Sellafield nuclear waste train one too many times!
  3. I am making reasonable progress cladding the first PopupDesign kit in plastic. Just a few more details to do.
  4. I'll take up that challenge! I am sure I have a couple of vans that could be repainted
  5. I put this temporarily on the gable end. There has to be an Irn Bru advert somewhere on the layout. Now where is my square sausage!
  6. That is taking accuracy to prototype to a whole new level!
  7. I have started to cover one of the Popupdesign tenements with plastikard. I have three of these window pattern to do so I made a template to aid marking out.
  8. That is a brilliant photo. Thanks for posting. Cheers David
  9. I have been peering at this photo for a while. To the right of the stairs is a colour light signal and what looks like a water crane, or is it just a shadow!
  10. Sad to hear that. I think this layout is excellent with so much further potential. I also think that eventually you would have made the fiddleyard scenic. Here is to the Baby pod and whatever you build in it. Cheers David
  11. There was a stair from track level
  12. I have one of those. I have made a representation of the cable running from the cab to the front coupling
  13. There were two open air sections at each end of the low level station but these were outside the footprint of the high level station. The only source of smoke within the high level station would have been the stairwells to the low level station which were located towards the George Sq end of the station.
  14. I don't know how much choice railway staff had in terms of location. My grandfather was a stationmaster on the LNER. In 1937 he was posted from Cockburnspath on the ECML to Auchtermuchty in Fife. No running water and no electricity. He stayed 3 weeks then told them to stuff it and went back to Cockburnspath.
  15. I think you are right, especially when you consider nearly every train leaving GQS would be be going full bore to get up the incline and most trains would be banked too. Must have been pretty noisy as well!
  16. The signal box was closed in 1967.Control was moved to a panel in Cowlairs box. You will remember the gantry on which the box sat. It was left in situ. Any picture of the 70s or 80s will show it.As far as I know it is still there though that bit is covered over now by later development.
  17. I found a good picture of the front. The back ie facing the tunnel, is a work of fiction.
  18. Thanks Brian, it is starting to come together.
  19. The bus station now has its surface. I need to paint it to look like concrete
  20. I made a cardboard mock up of the signal box to check for size
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