George Hudson Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Found a fantastic source for architectural drawings and references. This will provide the plans for at least the next ten buildings for Aldersgate! http://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/survey-london Enjoy, building lovers! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Have you seen the WH Smith volume on London's lost buildings (I forget the exact title)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Is that the English Heritage Lost London Panoramas or something similar? Huge thing and fascinating. Actually English heritage have lots of good stuff but hugely expensive so prob best to order at library. A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 Oh dear, here we go again. I think Aldersgate has spent more time in boxes than running! Hopefully, when I build a garden room it can be unpacked again. I the meantime those interested should watch our for more buildings on the card structures forum. Thanks to all those who have followed in the past. Andrew 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 Still a long way from resurrection of Aldersgate. In the meantime I have been building structures for the future (see building threads) and scouting about for scenes. Whilst looking for new offices (er, I thought I had retired??) I got the opportunity to take some arial shots of the approach to Liverpool Street. These are not great photography and are modern views but helpful for perspectives, "site assembly" and details such as wall widths etc. Who knows, could inspire some new urban layouts! Andrew 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 George Good to see you posting, what have you been up to ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) Only building various stuff which I have on a series of topics in the card model forum. Otherwise wandering around the East End of London and Clerkenwell confusing people by measuring up buildings with a tape measure during the day! Edited February 6, 2016 by George Hudson 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 Short diversion: my birthday present today from Mrs GH. A GER ticket punch from ebay! How good is that? 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Thanks to everyone who has been kind enough to take an interest in this thread and the others that I have run on Aldersgate buildings. On the anniversary of my last post here, and a couple of years after moving home, a real update! I have a date agreed for the construction of a garden room in which I will house Aldersgate. Hopefully it will rise like the proverbial phoenix. Fingers crossed and watch this space (occasionally). Regards Andrew 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I only just saw this, and am mightily impressed and interested. Although there are a lot of minories-type layouts inspired by the city and fringes, few look as convincing as this does. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 Announcement The Board of Directors of the Great Eastern Railway has determined that the current terminus of Bishopsgate in Shoreditch is insufficiently large to provide adequate accommodation for the extended services now offered by the railway. Consequently and following Parliamentary approval, the construction of a new station at Aldersgate has begun and the groundworks have been completed. By Order of the Board of Directors. 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 Hi All, With just a couple of weeks to go before the new site for Aldersgate is completed, I have been looking at track plans again. As you can see below, I am not smart enough for templot or similar. ;-) It seems that I can keep most of my original design and transfer almost all of the former point work from the old base boards which I have stored away. It looks like I will go for an L shaped layout of 5mx5m with 90cm depth boards. This could give me platforms able to cope with 6 coach trains at one end and a 2.2m traverser and turntable at the other for storage and train handling. I will probably try to build the traverser first since if I can't produce this (never tried it before) the whole plan will need a rethink. If anyone has any links to info on building a traverser, these will be much appreciated! Andrew 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 Yes I have seen this http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/49884-automated-motorised-traverser/ but for me that's science fiction! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 A small update for those following developments. Hopefully without sounding too smug or tempting fate, I can report that the station throat is now fixed down and operating fully. All droppers, electro frog feeds etc have been left unsoldered underneath as yet but this will be the next session. There is only one area of track near the crossing which had slightly questionable geometry with hindsight and it may be that I purchase a dremmel and replace the offending 15 cm. (I won't say where it is exactly!). I am posting a shot across the tracks which I believe will look like a plausible Liverpool Street type approach when I have it ballasted, painted, backed by some high retaining walls/warehouses and covered with a suitable road bridge or two. Regards Andrew Have just found this layout thread. A simply stunning station approach! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 3, 2017 Author Share Posted September 3, 2017 Summer's coming to an end and so I am moving ahead with the new Aldersgate. This is going to be the base of a sector board (gave up on the traverser idea as too complicated for my skills and materials' quality). The box underneath contains my N gauge layout Stratham. Andrew 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 4, 2017 Author Share Posted September 4, 2017 The sector board is really a huge turntable which will just pivot about 15 degrees to offer up several fiddle yard tracks. The top board is 5mm mdf sliding on a base of 10mm mdf. Pretty basic but this should work (we'll see!). For the pivot, I bought some vintage mechano wheels which I have screwed to the top and bottom with a 4mm bolt completing the bearing. I am no engineer but this seems like it could work. If all this fails I will use cassettes but thought I would try this first. Top with some wood glue to add stability Underside To cut the curve I intend to bolt a jig saw to the bottom surface and pivot the whole thing through the saw. It's a two person job and I'll let the wood glue dry fully before starting this. Couple of sneaky holes drilled in baseplate. And fix it like this with a thinner blade. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 7, 2017 Author Share Posted September 7, 2017 More work on the sector board....bolted on the jigsaw and then slowly turned the whole board against the blade 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 8, 2017 Author Share Posted September 8, 2017 (edited) Here's s first go at lining up the tracks ... Some are a mm or two out in that as I move the whole thing around, not each track lines up with its mate at the same time but I might just live with that since I only want one train movement at a time. Everything is tacked down with evostick for now and I will solder it up when I am happy with the clearances all the way round. As I planned one can't also get a full swing from one extreme to the other but this is also fine; that the primary entry/exit track from the rest of the layout will have access to 6 roads directly and the rest and other storage sidings, which will run behind scenery parallel the access track, can be reached with a little track shuffling. Hard to explain but hope that will become evident over time. Sorry the pictures are wonky, started on the wine too early! Edited September 8, 2017 by George Hudson 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 13, 2017 Author Share Posted September 13, 2017 Cracking on with exit roads! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foulounoux Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Great to see progress again on this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
L49 Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 More work on the sector board....bolted on the jigsaw and then slowly turned the whole board against the blade Now that's what I call cunning... I like this idea, and it seems to have worked perfectly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 More work on the sector plate...quite a project! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 Continuing to plug away at the sector plate/traverser! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 Phew! Don't ask about the left hand tracks! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 30, 2017 Author Share Posted September 30, 2017 Tested the set up yesterday. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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