David Bell Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 5 hours ago, Dunalastair said: Looking forward to seeing how the elusive signal box comes together. I seem to remember the gantry, but the cabin was before my time. It is primed and glazed now 14 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunalastair Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Looking good. How did the signalmen get up there? A ladder up from track level or a ladder down from street level? Or even a stair? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 21 minutes ago, Dunalastair said: Looking good. How did the signalmen get up there? A ladder up from track level or a ladder down from street level? Or even a stair? There was a stair from track level 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunalastair Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 10 minutes ago, David Bell said: There was a stair from track level I'm surprised there was enough space. I'm guessing it might be on the right in this somewhat murky image? http://www.eastbank.org.uk/images/Glasgow/BW01.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 On the left side of that image 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 20 hours ago, David Bell said: On the left side of that image I have been peering at this photo for a while. To the right of the stairs is a colour light signal and what looks like a water crane, or is it just a shadow! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisbr Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 4 hours ago, David Bell said: I have been peering at this photo for a while. To the right of the stairs is a colour light signal and what looks like a water crane, or is it just a shadow! Yes, definitely a water crane and almost certainly some form of colour light signal 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post luckymucklebackit Posted March 11 Popular Post Share Posted March 11 Absolute cracker of a photo came up on Facebook today. It shows the reconstruction work underway to extend platforms 6 and 7 to their current position. New girders were needed to cross the low level platforms and this shot shows the big hole in the floor while work was underway. Jim 29 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 That is a brilliant photo. Thanks for posting. Cheers David 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 .. anyone for Balloch Pier? .. just mind the dangling electical cables as you board your train! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted March 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12 Most interesting to see a view showing how close everything was. Many years spent standing on that low level platform at c.17:25 to 17:32 when you could hear the DMU engines on the platforms above so I knew there wasn’t much gap, but nice to see it confirmed photographically. Also a revelation that 6&7 weren’t always as long as 2-5. And following the Queen St upgrade, they are shorter once more as 2-5 have been lengthened by a coach length. Paul. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunalastair Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Yes, that was my thought - very close. It was all very different in the 1850s : https://maps.nls.uk/view/74416226 And even in 1864 : https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/1864-birds-eye-view-of-glasgow-railway-stations/ It must have been interesting shunting using all those four wheel carriage turntables. 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post David Bell Posted March 12 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 12 The box is painted and weathered 20 1 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted March 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12 Wow! 👍 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post David Bell Posted March 17 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 17 I have started to cover one of the Popupdesign tenements with plastikard. I have three of these window pattern to do so I made a template to aid marking out. 19 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 I put this temporarily on the gable end. There has to be an Irn Bru advert somewhere on the layout. Now where is my square sausage! 13 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37Oban Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 You've got to have Tunnock's and Irn Bru delivery vans somewhere on the layout! Roja 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted March 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17 3 hours ago, David Bell said: There has to be an Irn Bru advert somewhere on the layout. Now where is my square sausage! Not the right station for the Irn Bru clock (mores the pity!!). Paul. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted March 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18 10 hours ago, 5BarVT said: Not the right station for the Irn Bru clock (mores the pity!!). Paul. What, and where, was the Irn Bru clock (asking for a sassenach)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted March 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 18 It was an Irn Bru advert mounted on the wall of (I think) Caledonian Chambers (part of Central Station) facing up Renfield St. in my time, it was a large clock with blue hands and orange numerals (and some Irn Bru advertising). Very useful if you were running down Renfield St a bit tight for a train! Internet searches reveal previous incarnations of the advert, but I haven’t found one of the clock. After privatisation it was taken down, because (allegedly) no-one knew who could authorise it to remain. (I suspect the wall was ScotRail in Caley Chambers and the roof beneath it was whoever owned Central Hotel.). Strangely, it seemed no bother to find out the ownership to effect a new electronic advertising sign in its place . . . Paul. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Fair Oak Junction Posted March 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18 (edited) There is a photo of it here on Facebook (should be viewable for people without an account): https://www.facebook.com/100064138146122/posts/2990806390988634/ Edited March 18 by Fair Oak Junction 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunalastair Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 When you consider the girder count at Central Station, both in the roof and between High Level and Low Level, then Irn Bru seems somehow appropriate. Though Central is still there - perhaps it was the erstwhile St Enoch roof which was used by Barr's? https://showmethejourney.com/train-travel-info/countries/great-britain/cities/glasgow/rail-stations/glasgow-central/ The 1878 Queen Street roof somehow appears less brash, though I have not seen the latest redevelopment. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 19 hours ago, 37Oban said: You've got to have Tunnock's and Irn Bru delivery vans somewhere on the layout! Roja I'll take up that challenge! I am sure I have a couple of vans that could be repainted 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 23 Author Share Posted March 23 I am making reasonable progress cladding the first PopupDesign kit in plastic. Just a few more details to do. 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 30 Author Share Posted March 30 On 17/03/2024 at 20:13, 37Oban said: You've got to have Tunnock's and Irn Bru delivery vans somewhere on the layout! Roja How about these! 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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