Auchentogle

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1959

It's 1959 at Auchentogle and in the branch platform is one of the newly delivered Park Royal railbuses. SC79970 spent its short eight year career entirely on the Scottish Region.



Meanwhile, at Glentogle V1 67610 shunts in the yard. The BR Database website shows this was a Haymarket loco from at the least the creation of BR in 1948 until withdrawal in 1961.

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1960

In the first year of the new decade diesels took over Edinburgh - Aberdeen services. Pairs of 1,160hp BRC&W type 2s would operate the service from the 4th April.

 

Here the service is seen during the stop at Auchentogle:

 

 

Both locos were new to Hornsey but had been reallocated to Haymarket by the end of May 1960.

 

Meanwhile, the branch was being worked by one of the Cravens sets that had been delivered to the ScR the previous year. I need to change that Kings Cross destination blind!:

 

[Twentieth-Bagginess]

What a beautiful layout.

 

Can I ask how you work Glentogle sidings? I saw you mention it's a through station but I can't see that you've built any extension yet. Do you need to leave the train on the running line getting cars in and out of the goods shed/loading dock? 

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On 21/01/2024 at 21:43, Twentieth-Bagginess said:

What a beautiful layout.

 

Can I ask how you work Glentogle sidings? I saw you mention it's a through station but I can't see that you've built any extension yet. Do you need to leave the train on the running line getting cars in and out of the goods shed/loading dock? 

 

Thank you. There is a small mini fiddle yard missing from the track plan (it would be on the lower right), with two roads long enough for a two-car DMU. This allows a through branch service and room to shunt into the loop and yard.
 

 

 

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1961

A couple of Met-Camms sit in Auchentogle station. The two-car without whiskers, the three-car with. The latter is an out-the-box Lima that will get re-worked at some point. The lining is too yellow, the middle band is too high along the sides.

 

 

At Glentogle a Class 27 has left its brake van in the loop and reversed the two vans into the sidings where the Hunslet will shunt them into the goods shed. D2592 was not a Scottish loco till 1967 so should be renumbered.

 

 

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1962

On the mainline we see Haymarket allocated Deltic D9004. It was new in May 1961 and ran unnamed until May 1964.

 

 

Working the branch is a Class 107.  These were the last DMUs to be built at Derby the 26 sets were delivered to the Scottish Region from December 1960 onwards. This is obviously the Bachmann 108 that needs a few changes to make it more Scottish.

 

 

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1963

1963 was the last full year of the "Queen of Scots" Pullman service that ran between Glasgow Queen Street and London Kings Cross. Here we see it in Auchentogle station:

 

Yellow Panels began to appear on a few locos and DMUs in 1962, by 1963 they were much more common. The panel has been applied to this Met-Camm twin seen in Glentogle station:

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1964

This week it is 1964 on the layout and on the fuel point at Auchentogle we see a Met-Camm DMU and a Class 24:

 

At Glentogle a Class 17 arrives into the loop with a short train of Conflats while a Cravens DMU waits to head down the branch:

 

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1965
East Coast legends.

Class 55 D9019 spent most of its career at Haymarket depot. It was the last of these locos to be named in a ceremony at Glasgow Central on 11 September 1965.
A4 60031 Golden Plover was always a Scottish loco, new to Haymarket in 1937 where it remained until February 1962 when it moved to St Rollox, its last depot until withdrawal in 29 October 1965.
That dates this 1965 image at Auchentogle somewhere between 11/09 and 29/10.

Info from brdatabase.info and napier-chronicles.co.uk. Hornby A4 and Accurascale Deltic, both straight out the box.
 

 

On the branch we see a Cravens unit heading away from Glentogle station. Bachmann model, Scalescenes bridge, home made clay rocks that need finishing off. Work on developing the layout has stalled lately as I have several other projects taking priority, hopefully things will resume soon. I do manage run a few services most nights just to unwind though!

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1966
This week it's 1966 on the layout and in the first image we see D365 arriving into Auchentogle on the main line with an express. The loco was allocated to Haymarket depot for its whole career:

 

At Glentogle D5211 is shunting in the yard. I had a delivery from Westhill Wagon Works that included the point lever. The base needs insetting into the ballast and the lever shortening - shoulder height at the top of the swing seems a little too high. Or is the figure too small? Loco and wagons bought secondhand, weathered by their previous owners:

 

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8 hours ago, SC55015 said:

The base needs insetting into the ballast and the lever shortening - shoulder height at the top of the swing seems a little too high.

 

I suspect that it is the lever that is out of gauge, I have yet to find a point lever that feels the right height and I have tried several. 

 

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1967
One summer evening in 1967 we see D1100 in Auchentogle station. New in October 1966, it was a Gateshead and York loco in its first years so its appearance on East Coast trains in Scotland was not unusual.

 

On the same evening a Derby Lightweight DMU sits on the fuel point. It's a Carlisle set, they were known to venture across the border in their later years.

 

 

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1968

1968 saw some new faces on the Scottish Region. On the DMU front some Gloucester bubble cars were transferred north from the Western Region, and here we seen one working on the branch at the Glentogle stop:

 

Co-Co EE Type 4s were now regulars on Anglo-Scottish services. Here is one in Auchentogle operated by D402. It's just a Lima model the multiple working gear removed to reflect those early years:

 

 

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1969

We see one of the less successful diesel locos in Auchentogle station - Class 29 D6129. This had been an Eastfield loco since 1960 and would be withdrawn in October 1971.

 

The branch is been worked by a mixed-livery hybrid 101/105 DMU. It is seen arriving into Glentogle station. The Lima 101 has a roof pod  that needs removing, it's about 30 years after this before they were fitted.

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1970

At the dawn of the new decade we see a Class 27 arriving into Glentogle station with some grain wagons for the local distillery.

 

1970 was the last full year of the Swindon Inter-CIty DMUs on the Edinburgh - Glasgow line. Although their reign of the services was short (1957-1971) those 14 years were longer than most of the diesels that followed, the Class 27 Push-Pulls lasted just 8 years (71-79), the 47/7s 11 years (79-90), the 158s, 10ish years (1990-2000?) . The 170s seem to have surpassed the Swindon units lasting 18 years until electrification.

 

 

The model was based on the following image from the 53A Models of Hull Collection dated as circa 1970. It was unusual to see an 'intermediate' power car on the end of this service.

 

 

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1971

Two early morning trains seen in 1971. First, a couple of views of 9021 with a London bound service in Auchentogle station.

 

On the branch, the first train of the day has a CCT full of newspapers attached to the DMU.

 

 

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1972

DMUs from the (North) Eastern Region were not too unusual in Scotland, particularly on school specials from the Newcastle area. Here we see one of these in Auchentogle station:

 

The yard shunter at Glentogle is currently Barclay 2414, which in 1972 was allocated to Dunfermline Townhill and would later become 06002. This Hornby Railroad model has the best 0-60mph of all my locos.

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7 minutes ago, SC55015 said:

This Hornby Railroad model has the best 0-60mph of all my locos.

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One of these days we'll get a decent RTR Class 06, won't we Accurascale?

 

 

Steve

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1973

We see a Class 27 arrive into Auchentogle with a parcel rake of pre-grouping stock.

 

In the summer months a Class 122 single car DMU was used to provide an extra Auchentogle - Glentogle service at peak times. This was for the seasonal staff of the Glentogle Distillery, most of whom lived in the town of Auchentogle. During the day it was stabled in the siding at Glentogle until the return evening trip, although some days it was added to the branch service to give extra capacity for visitors to the Distillery.

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1974

Class 27 Push-pulls had been operating the E&G services since 1971, and here we see one in Auchentogle station, with the stabling point being eerily empty:

 

Our Glentogle view for this year is taken from the goods yard, with a Met-Camm on the branch service in the background. One day I'll get back to progressing the layout itself.

 

 

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Back to this, after a few weeks travelling...

 

1975

The DMU fleet has been suffering due to mechanical troubles and a lack of spares for the AEC engines. Most are laid up on the fuel point awaiting attention. Replacing the AECs with Leylands might help availability in the future.


The branch has had to resort to a Class 47 and a couple of coaches. This is an old Heljan 47 weathered by its previous owner. The driver has forgotten to change the headcode for this working.