RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 30, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2019 Enjoy. Your layout has rekindled many memories and I'm sure your new one will do the same. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 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.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 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 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 As per the prototype back in 1976, track lifting at Great Victoria Street has commenced! It was 20 years before tracks were relaid and Great Victoria Street returned. Hopefully I won’t be as long! 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Progress Andy, small but a significant step. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 After the track lifting in the station, the plan of trying to move the whole station and baseboard in one failed! 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. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat141 Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Looks like a wee bomb outside Europa again. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted March 15, 2020 Author Share Posted March 15, 2020 12 hours ago, pat141 said: Looks like a wee bomb outside Europa again. Yep Pat, but hopefully the station will be restored to it’s former glories soon! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 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! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Good to see them going to good use. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 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. 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. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Compared to the last few years Andy this is speedy progress indeed so keep the pressure on those PW squads. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 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 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 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. 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 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat141 Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 lovely, more please.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Well done Andy, it must have give you great pleasure so see your rolling stock out on the rails again. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 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 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted September 12, 2020 Author Share Posted September 12, 2020 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! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 Looking forward to seeing some trains running by. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat141 Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 All is looking good. I like the station building and foot bridge, did you build them yourself? Horrible Hornby platforms, glad your changing them. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted September 12, 2020 Author Share Posted September 12, 2020 4 hours ago, kirley said: Looking forward to seeing some trains running by. Thanks Kieran, you will have to make do with photos for now as your tutorial for uploading videos went completely over my head! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted September 12, 2020 Author Share Posted September 12, 2020 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 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike 84C Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 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. MIck 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 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! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 Following on from the above photos of the revamped Adelaide, a little bit more work has been done as the photos below. The Hornby platforms have been chopped and laid with Aughagen wood effect sheets. The GNR waiting shelter is near completion also. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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