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French railways certainly aren't my main modelling interest, but I am a wannabe Parisien modeller, and maybe having this group on here will force me to get my 040TA and 131TB out again and see whether something Petite Ceinture based will get started!

Not only that, last time I went in there the beer was off! "Pint of Youngs Vinegar sir?"

As long as you don't look at him in a funny way. You might struggle to walk afterwards if you did!

On the same tack, you could try Vincent Folgate, although that could sound rather more like and East End wide boy

Looking Good Andrew. It's a fantastic feeling when the trackwork is finished and you can actually run some trains. Reminds you what the hobby is all about! I don't envy you the task of building all those retaining wall arches. Are you planning on having the little siding in the corner below 'the light'? I thought mention had been made on this thread of it before but I'll just had a look back through and I can't find it. I think that little corner at the end of the west side just before the mouth of the covered way is one of the most modellable corners on any mainline terminus in London. The rubbish chute directed straight into a waiting wagon, and the little bits of 2' gauge track with push hoopers on it would make a brilliant still life cameo amidst the busyness of the station trhoat.

Thanks for posting these up BD. I can't find any of my pictures of 'the ditch' .The layout is currently in store above the workshop awaiting a facelift and conversion to a roundy roundy. I got fed up with spending all my time at shows faffing around with the traversers, and not having time to talk to anyone. Hopefully it will be ready to go back on the circuit by the end of next year. Until then, the sub-surface flag is being borne by Shoreditch ELR.

I second that! Absolutely superb. You are capturing the feel of the suburbs that you can only half experience through pre war colour photos and cine film. Keep up the Whiteman orchestra too!

With all this talk of South Pimlico and modelling the railways of London, can I throw a new subject in here. I don't know whether it counts as a cliche, or just bad practice, but what about people who build layouts which they tell us are based in London, but look more like Leicester? It's not hard, in London we don't have a lot of stone, we don't have nice hard red clay beds, and we don't have ready access to slate quarries except for the most affluent of 19th century builders. Most of the railway infrastructure was constructed of porous yellow stock bricks which absorbed all the smog and went black (although as usual there is a prototype for everything with the stone cutting outside St Pancras), Stations were often built of the same materials, unless the company building them happened to have ready links to the midlands to import hard reds. Often domestic properties were tiled rather than slated, and did not have a straight front to back pitch, but followed a valley roof profile. The roof pitch generally was shallower than houses in the North too. Sorry, that was about to become a rant, so I am going to retire back to my proper work and see what you guys have to say.

That is one TASTY piece of work! The station is really impressive, but I think you have captured the 'Light' really well. I'm looking forward to seeing this progress!

I think I remember seeing this layout on another forum. It's a brilliant trackplan, and scenically I think it works really well. I have been considering converting a set of farish 57 ft suburbans for myself, either into an LMS Siemens set (see Harford Street exhibition thread for the 4mm version of the same job), or into Metropolitan MW stock. They would convert very neatly into the later Crystal Palace sets for the overhead too. I'm liking the use of lesney E1s in the main road. What power unit did you use for the EMU?

Just dropped in on this thread out of curiosity, and now having seen the Connoisseur F5, I want to go 'O'. There should be a fiscal health warning attached to these pictures. She is GORGEOUS!