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How did I miss this Breaking News, so you finally got access to a room below the roof space.....

 

Looking forward to the new layout, with I hope, some of the old GVSt treasures been incorporated into the new one.

Expecting first pictures before the end of this month....

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If only Kieran! Still in the loft unfortunately! Heating system packed in and once renewed the immersion and storage tanks from the old system could be removed, giving me a lot more space. 
The layout will be a slow process, I have rushed into building in the past, but my most important thing is that it works for me as a one man operation, looking forward to it though 

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After the track lifting in the station, the plan of trying to move the whole station and baseboard in one failed!

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Undeterred, the new baseboards have been constructed and a mock-up of how the new extended station area will look like. Hope to be able to add the other station roof shed to incorporate UTA buses and post office vans.

 

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So on the back of the above photos, GVST station has been moved to its new home! The main roof shed has been repaired and the platforms lengthened, but more work is needed to restore it to it’s former glories! Track in the station has been laid and the station throat track has been laid out. The extra space will allow me to model the signal box, water tower, turntable and pond along with a 5 track Grosvenor freight yard.

Many thanks to Kieran (Kirley) who gave me a big box of track and points, most of which are in the photos below!

 

 

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Some more boards have been laid and the track plan is starting to take shape. Other than a BR Class 108 I got for Christmas (to be used for a BUT), all stock is still boxed, so the 108 is the test locomotive for electrics. A couple of photos of some progress.

 

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The layout will now operate from terminus to fiddle yard and hopefully operated to a working timetable, which I have started working on in the photo below, with thanks to Lambegman who sent me copies of an original timetable for the era.

 

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9 hours ago, kirley said:

Compared to the last few years Andy this is speedy progress indeed so keep the pressure on those PW squads.


Thanks Kieran, as of tonight, all of the old layout has finally been  dismantled with little destruction apart from the RUC station ironically!

One more new baseboard to be built and then the rest of the track can be laid and the good news is all the track that you gave me will be enough to complete the whole layout so happy days 

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So the layout continues to develop, with all the track now laid, apart from the siding to the turntable. All electrics have been tested and been ok, so it was time to get some of the stock back out from their boxes!

Below are a couple of photos.


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Above is the new 6 road Grosvenor freight yard, with a CIE goods waiting to depart for Dundalk.

 

Below is GVST throat, with Belfast North signal box and water tower with a DH, a couple of Hunslets, a BUT and a 141 departing with the CIE Enterprise 

 

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Thanks Kieran, yes great to run an Irish train again!

 

A couple more photos below, one showing where the freight yard is in conjunction with GVST station and the second looking across from Platform 4 towards  Murray’s tobacco factory, the iconic building that dwarfed the station 

 

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Lockdown at the end of March gave me a chance to make some progress on the new layout build as per the above photos! Returning back to work at the beginning of June soon put a stop to that!

So, below are a few photos of the small slow progress made since then. They show the new area for Adelaide station, which has been extended to handle a 4 coach BUT set and includes the original station building that was demolished in the early 70s , in a rundown state, and the platforms will be converted to the original wooden type. The houses represent Great Northern Street, where many railway workers lived as Adelaide housed the GNRs locomotive works up to the mid 60s. The photos are a mock up just now, with plenty of work and tidying up to do, but at least it is some sort of progress!

 

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3 hours ago, pat141 said:

All is looking good.

I like the station building and foot bridge, did you build them yourself?

Horrible Hornby platforms, glad your changing them.


Thanks Pat. Yep I built the station from scratch with card which turned out ok but not great. In hindsight I would have got a better finish with plasticard, but it suits my needs and is a reasonable representation of the original building. The footbridge is a card kit that looks very similar to the original footbridge at Adelaide and at many other GNR stations. The other platform will have the iconic GNR shelter, which is an Alphagraphix 00 kit I still have to build 

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I do admire your progress Andy and putting a layout in one of those modern truss roofed houses must be a real pitb!  Still you could always get a second income stream by being a contorsionist!!!!!  I do hope you have some sort of insulation in the roof? and dont forget the airflow around the insulation. I did and the remedial work was another pitb!  Enjoy, be safe please keep posting.    

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Thanks Mick. Yep there is good insulation, and despite the varying range of temperatures in Scotland between the season’s, I have never had a problem with any layout over the last 20 years! The problem that you rightly mention is as the older one gets, it doesn’t do the back much favours! But it is worth it, as the alternative is no layout at all!

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