Eaglesham 1912

[Guest 40-something]

Hi All

 

Another of my group members layouts here...

 

Eaglesham is a 4mm/OO gauge layout set to the south of Glasgow in 1912.  The layout features a station with run-round loop, goods yard with shed and cattle dock and a rail-served dairy.  The trackwork is a mixture of SMP Code 75 plain track with handbuilt pointwork.  Traditional analogue control powers the layout.  Total size is 20 feet by 2 feet, over 5 boards (3 scenic, 2 fiddle yard boards). The real village of Eaglesham was never connected to the rail network, although there were proposals.  

 

The track plan is based upon East Kilbride, as it was at the turn of the 20th century, this was chosen because although East Kilbride looked like a through station, it was never operated at such and was a terminus for trains from Glasgow, and trains from Hamilton.  Construction of the layout started over 20 years ago, the original baseboards still going strong.  The buildings were mostly built from card and covered with a brick papers.  The station building, which is based on the Caledonian station at East Kilbride, was built using original drawings, as was the goods shed.  The other buildings were built from photographs.

 

As the layout is set in 1912, all the loco's and rolling stock have been built from kits or are scratchbuilt.  Loco’s, in passenger and freight liveries, representing small yard shunters to express passenger and heavy freight examples can be seen on Eaglesham, whether or not they would have ran on the line!  Passenger stock varies from 6 wheel to bogie examples in differing liveries, and goods stock is a motley collection of private owner and company vehicles.

 

Early retirement allowed the owner to take a fresh look at Eaglesham, the scenery was freshened up and the station area was detailed and brought back to life.  Since sprucing up, Eaglesham has appeared at a few exhibitions and is due back out at the Perth show in June 2014.  The layout was also featured in the January 2013 issue of Hornby Magazine.

 

 

More info on Eaglesham can be found on the 12AD link below

 

Thanks for looking

[David C]

Great stuff! Its nice to see a pre grouping layout, particularly one based on a rarely modelled prototype like the Caley. The scratch/kit built locos and stock are also impressive - its good to see people who do actually make something themselves and who don't rely wholly on RTR or kits (like I do!)

 

I'd be interested to see more photos and a track plan.

 

Thanks for posting.

 

David C

[Guest 40-something]

Great stuff! Its nice to see a pre grouping layout, particularly one based on a rarely modelled prototype like the Caley. The scratch/kit built locos and stock are also impressive - its good to see people who do actually make something themselves and who don't rely wholly on RTR or kits (like I do!)

 

I'd be interested to see more photos and a track plan.

 

Thanks for posting.

 

David C

Hi

 

Thanks for your comment, more photos are on the 12AD MRG website linked to below.  No track plan as yet but form the photos you should be able to work it out.

 

I'll try get one uploaded to the website

[Guest 40-something]

Just a note to say that Eaglesham will be appearing at Midland Railex in a couple of weeks.

[Guest 40-something]

All,

 

Eaglesham appears in this months BRM Magazine, the photo's taken by Nigel Burkin look fantastic

[agt613]

Absolutely superb! With what have you lined the black locos?