Hornsey Broadway

[Wibble]

 

A view looking towards the headshunt and boiler house after the application of some vegetation and track detail. The distance is deceiving in
this snapshot, with enough space beyond 2164 to switch a pair of class 25s. The structures surrounding the depot have been created to give
the illusion that they are built on lower ground, which not only justifies the retaining wall, but also keeps the overall height of the backscene
low at this end of the layout for social purposes.

 

Thanks for all your kind comments, and hope you like the update.

 

Cheers,

 

Kier

 

[Wibble]

 

A glimpse of 6728 heading north with a tank train from Ripple Lane. It's a bit too cold out there today for ice creams!

 

Wishing you all the best for 2018.

[Wibble]

For those interested, here's a link to the January 2018 update page.

 

http://www.emgauge70s.co.uk/model_omwb139.html

 

Cheers.

[mudmagnet]

Great to see the update photos. I regularly visit the site for updates and hope to get to Aylesbury in May.

[P.C.M]

Hi Kier,

Always nice to see the Monthly update. I drop by your website regularly inspirational stuff.

 

Cheers Peter.

[Baby Deltic]

Looking forward to seeing this layout in the flesh. An excellent example of top quality modelling and attention to detail.

[St Enodoc]

Super stuff Wibble. In 1970 I was 14, lived in Mill Hill and took the 221 to Edgware on my way to school. Much of my mother's family lived in Tottenham so trips across North London via Finchley, Muswell Hill and so on were very much part of my youth - including roller skating at Ally Pally. A couple of years later, the Led Zeppelin concert there was another highlight but that's another story.

[grahame]

Brilliant. Inspirational modelling and layout. It's an incentive to crack on and raise my own game.

 

G.

[Andrew P]

Absolutely wonderful atmosphere Kier, how have I missed it all these years? thanks for the update.

[AndyB]

Absolutely wonderful atmosphere Kier, how have I missed it all these years? thanks for the update.

 

Andrew, there's a lot more on the EM gauge 70s website if this thread has inspired you. 

[Andrew P]

Andrew, there's a lot more on the EM gauge 70s website if this thread has inspired you. 

Thanks Andy, I looked through some earlier, superb stuff.

[scottystitch]

hornsey_carsales02.jpg

 

A glimpse of 6728 heading north with a tank train from Ripple Lane. It's a bit too cold out there today for ice creams!

 

Wishing you all the best for 2018.

Aside from the outstanding level of modelling, this image also shows an eye for a fantastic image. This is a photograph of an urban ladscape......with a train in it, and, if you happened to be an Ice Cream van enthusiast, it's an urban landscape with an Ice Cream van in it.

 

You have a eye for a composition, sir. Keep it up and keep sharing, please.

[Jamiel]

I have followed Hornsea Broadway for a few years now on EM gauge 70s , I must say that along with Widenshaw (also by Wibble) that it is one of the most inspiring layouts I have seen. I was fortunate to see it at the Shipley show a little while ago.

In particular I love the way the buildings rise up and avoid the need for a backscene. I also love the weathing and everyday feel to not only the trains but the surroundings.

EM gauge 70s has been a great inspiration to me since rediscovering the hoby around 10 years ago. I have been very fortunate to have some very in depth conversations with Wibble and also others from EM Gauge 70's at exhibitions . If anyone here has not looked through the website then it is really is worth a visit,althugh it could take a good few days to disgeset it all.

Also, in case anyone has not seen Shenstone Road also from EM gauge 70's there is a thread on RMweb at:
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/85490-on-shenston-road-a-few-bevs-and-a-western-chieftain/

Thnak you for sharing the layout here on RMweb as well, but mostly thank you for giving such inpiration.

Jamie

[mullie]

Like many, I have followed this layout on the emgauge70s site, good to find it on here.

 

Martyn

[PeterBB]

Absolutely cracking layouts - glad I followed Rich's link

 

Peter

 

Edit = making layout pleural after looking at others

Edited January 6, 2018 by PeterBB

[OnTheBranchline]

hornsey_carsales02.jpg

 

A glimpse of 6728 heading north with a tank train from Ripple Lane. It's a bit too cold out there today for ice creams!

 

Wishing you all the best for 2018.

 

It's England, there will always be ice cream vans around

[Wibble]

_{I had just posted this image on another thread and thought I'd put it here too.}

 

 

_{A Brush prototype that wasn't seen very often, but did make it out on a few occasions during the early 1970s.}

 

_{We're looking forward to taking the layout to Railex 2018 on the 26th & 27th of May in Aylesbury, and catching up with you all. There's still a lot more detail work to do, but when is a layout ever finished? Paul's been busy finishing off the signal box with all its interior detail, and the last bracket signal too, so a big thanks to him and to Pete Johnson for the London Transport station building.}

[Wibble]

..... and also Paul made the lineside buildings and lamp post!

[OnTheBranchline]

_{I had just posted this image on another thread and thought I'd put it here too.}

 

 

_{A Brush prototype that wasn't seen very often, but did make it out on a few occasions during the early 1970s.}

 

_{We're looking forward to taking the layout to Railex 2018 on the 26th & 27th of May in Aylesbury, and catching up with you all. There's still a lot more detail work to do, but when is a layout ever finished? Paul's been busy finishing off the signal box with all its interior detail, and the last bracket signal too, so a big thanks to him and to Pete Johnson for the London Transport station building.}

 

Is his name Ivor?

[Swindon 123]

With Railex only a couple of days away, I thought I would dig out some of my photos of the layout for your delectation.

 

D5908 on ballast hoppers.

 

Stranger in the camp.

 

 

Paul J.

[Orion]

A simple "Like" just doesn't do this layout justice.

 

 

 

[danstercivicman]

Agree it's stunning!

[Wibble]

All of the heavy stuff now loaded into the pantechnicon ready for travelling in the morning, with just a few small bits and pieces left to shift.

 

Looking forward to catching up with everyone, and even more, playing trains for most of the weekend.

 

 

[leopardml2341]

Looking forward to catching up with everyone

I'm coming to Aylesbury to see this layout alone, the rest are just a bonus

Edited May 24, 2018 by leopardml2341

[figworthy]

It was good to see this in the flesh today, and it very much lived up to my expectations.

 

Adrian