Baby Deltic Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Coming along very nicely I see. Keep us posted with developments and pictures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 A road to connect the bridge leading to the parcels depot with the platform area has appeared. The road surface is a disgrace! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted December 13, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2011 A road to connect the bridge leading to the parcels depot with the platform area has appeared. The road surface is a disgrace! Hi there. I love this thread you work with more than card and paper is very very good. With regard to the state of the road if anything its far to good mate. Back in the day I worked as a courier and the road into Liverpool St red star was far worse than that. You don't have nearly enough pot holes Keep up the very fine work mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanLister Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Some lovely architectural modelling there. Must be nice to have such a looooooong space to work in. Good luck with your ongoing progress Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWSlack Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 <dribble> Lovely structures. For further inspiration from urbal layouts check out Geoff Ashdown's layout 'Tower Pier'. It was the subject of a photo shoot during its appearance at ExpoEM back in May 2011 and will appear in the periodicals shortly, according to rumour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 <dribble> Lovely structures. For further inspiration from urbal layouts check out Geoff Ashdown's layout 'Tower Pier'. It was the subject of a photo shoot during its appearance at ExpoEM back in May 2011 and will appear in the periodicals shortly, according to rumour. Thanks for the reference, Tower Pier is a great layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Some lovely architectural modelling there. Must be nice to have such a looooooong space to work in. Good luck with your ongoing progress Ian I might have to move it back to the UK within the next year and it could be rather challenging to find a long site for it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Triffic progress, Andrew! Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 End of year hello (or Hallo if you are in Germany). I have done little on the layout in the last weeks but I did get around to changing the from drive axel on my Bachmann B1. This seems to have improved running through correcting the tendency of the drive wheels to become "unquartered". Following this I decided to enjoy myself running monstrously long trains around the layout like this 12 coach effort double headed by said B1 and my L1 Here they are emerging from the girder bridge and passing the newest member of the stud, a second hand N2 from ebay. It's a little noisy but runs well: arguably better than both the B1 and the L1! Since the now defunct Britannia has never re emerged from the repairs firm to which it was sent in September, it's about time I had a bit of luck with the motive power! Happy New Year (Guten Rutsch) Andrew 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share Posted June 9, 2012 Having moved back to the UK, I am now looking at bringing Aldersgate across too. Unfortunately, I will have to compromise and reduce it in scale. This is a bit heartbreaking but I am sure that there are a number of readers who would think that I should be grateful to have a spare bedroom to house it in any form. Basically I can only use the middle boards as they are which means that I shall lose about four carriage lengths of platform (still leaving the possibility of squeezing six plus a loco in) and have to put half (the less complex half) of the throat on a curve. I think this could work. In any event, Liverpool Street was itself packed in very tightly so that feel could be maintained. I have taken some shots of how it would look having improvised with parts of the station existing. I never fixed these permanently which probably reflects the fact that I was sub consciously anticipating this process. Oh well it was good while it lasted to have something 24’ long! There is another radical alternative which is to dismantle the whole lot and start again with a similar idea but this time representing only the suburban services and perhaps an earlier era where the train lengths could be shorter. I could still recycle the buildings which I have made to date since none are mid 50s themselves. It will probably take months to move anything so I have plenty of time to mull it over and perhaps assemble some ideas from RMWebbers. Andrew 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 9, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2012 First of all welcome home - sez he from France! At least in deepest Essex you are only a trainride from inspiration on the prototype in its current guise. Yes, distressing to have to lose all that space, but 6 plus a loco can still give a very good impression of mainline modelling. The all-suburban option is probably not as much fun. Great and famous though the Jazz was, it's variety that makes a model fun to operate, and an all-Jazz system would be half the variety at best. Hoping you get some good ideas and can make the re-start soonest! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold McRuss Posted June 10, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 10, 2012 Hello, my congratulations for your move back to the UK. And my best wishes for your reassembling of Liverpool Street. Markus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Job's Modelling Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Nice to see that your back on the web. Still looks great to me. With a smaller layout you also have the possibility to spend more attention to detailing. I like to mention in this case the Farthing layout(s). Regards, Job Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 Thank you guys for your positive comments and food for thought! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 I've just had a close look at the Superquick Market House kit and worked out how you made your warehouse - very clever! Stuart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted September 28, 2012 Author Share Posted September 28, 2012 (edited) Thanks, that kit has always looked strikingly like the warehouses in Devonshire Square. street view ref (might work) if not type in Devonshire Square London in google street view and go tp the end of the street i.e. the square itself. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&authuser=0&q=Bishopsgate,+London&aq=0&oq=bishopsgate&vps=1&sll=51.887776,0.906115&sspn=0.032103,0.090551&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bishopsgate,+London,+United+Kingdom Regards Andrew Edited September 28, 2012 by George Hudson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonmarshall Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 I have really enjoyed reading this thread and love the work you have done. How is the move going? Are you back in Blighty yet and have you worked out what you are going to do? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted October 10, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2012 Me too. A great layout. Looking forward to seeing it develop. Should be possible to build it in a form which works for a small space at home but can still be expanded for the future or for exhibition use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Thanks for your interest, it looks like the only practical solution to fit this into the spare room is to lose 1metre from the station. The main part of the layout if four 1.5m x 0.5m boards; the first of these which is the start of the throat will have to be replaced by a curved throat (36in + radius) to bring the mainline round in a U form to a traverser or sector plate type arrangement. The last board with the buffers will have to become 0.5m from1.5m long, pretty much as is shown in the photos above. The whole lot is still sitting in Germany and I have a few jobs in the house to do before I can think about moving it across. I am also finding the prospect of cutting the whole thing up pretty unmotivating to say the least and hoping that I could come up with a bright idea before I have to move it. Over time I am reconciling myself from moving from a pretty fantastic space to something more typical for the average enthusiast and looking at the mock up above, it doesn't look too bad. I will be back on the site when I have something tangible to show which might be just some progress on the buildings which are my major interest. Andrew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trelvis_Gresley Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Just looked thru your thread for the first time and I really like the look of this layout. Having grown up on the Lea Valley line I have a real affection for the GER & Liverpool St. Looking forward to 2013 developments. Trevor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Thanks, hope I will be able to deliver something interesting. Andrew ps there are some other threads on card modelling forum re buildings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted April 16, 2013 Author Share Posted April 16, 2013 All packed up (sorry this has turned into more of a blog than layout topic: I will get back on track). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jonte Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 All very neat and tidy, Andrew. Eagerly looking forward to seeing the newer, slightly shortened version of Aldersgate. Good luck! Jonte 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Hudson Posted April 19, 2013 Author Share Posted April 19, 2013 I promised not to make this a blog but I can't resist relating the experience of coming through the eurotunnel today. The ladies of the French customs could not understand my explanation of what I had in the back of my car so I had to remove some of the packaging. They were most amused to be provided with more evidence of the eccentric nature of the British (or perhaps the Germans as I was driving a German registered car). Andrew PS actually there are two layouts in the car, the coffin on the bottom contains Stratham for which there is no layout topic, only a gallery. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 I promised not to make this a blog but I can't resist relating the experience of coming through the eurotunnel today. The ladies of the French customs could not understand my explanation of what I had in the back of my car so I had to remove some of the packaging. They were most amused to be provided with more evidence of the eccentric nature of the British (or perhaps the Germans as I was driving a German registered car). Andrew PS actually there are two layouts in the car, the coffin on the bottom contains Stratham for which there is no layout topic, only a gallery. Welcome to Colchester. If you fancy a pint, drop me a PM. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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