Amiens Street Central

[GSR 800]

With limited space, Mullingar needed some form of fiddle yard on a loop behind it. A large terminus station had been in my mind for a long time but the space required put me off. Two things changed this, the excellent Connolly station in N on this site, along with Minories, a design by Cyril Freezer (and we had Fry)  which managed an itneresting terminus design with limited space. While ultimately the design of the station throat is not like minories it is nonetheless and interesting track plan! 

Regardless the idea of Amiens Central is a simple one, the Phoenix Tunnel being regularly used and more Cork bound trains start there. This will allow for a forray into Great Northern and UTA territory while ensuring the heavier locomotives in the fleet have more of an excuse to run. It seems a Schools class will meet the knife to become a VS so there will be a wait before the Rhapsody in Blue.

 

[Galteemore]

Cracking stuff. Will wait eagerly on developments! 

[GSR 800]

A wee update: Amiens gets a revamp

Amiens has been on hiatus for a good year. Wasn't happy with the limitations I was left with, especially regarding the yard which was left rather cramped and minimal. My solution was to invert or 'mirror' Amiens to the other side of the board, which I think makes it a bit more unique, but importantly opens up space for carraige sidings and the engine shed area. I also used it as an opportunity to rework the station throat. Just a few pics for now!

Station throat. All platforms can be accessed, and can access the headshunt closest the shed. Through lines TBA.

134 waits for A15 to depart with a commuter to shunt empty coaching stock to the sidings. Passengers crossing the footbridge are glad for the lack of rain.

 

 

[Galteemore]

Very nice. Knot of track work on station approach v convincing 

[Mayner]

Didn't realise that you had started work on a city terminal, the photo of the B121 and A16 poking out under the footbridge and overall roof certainly captures the look of the prototype.

There were plans in the early 1900s for a city center terminus off Sackville/O'Connell St similar to an American Union terminal served by all main line companies serving Dublin. It would have had to be on a compact footprint being built in an already built ud densely populated city center area.

Funnily enough I worked in the Minories in the City of London during the late 1980s, in the evenings I used to travel home from Aldgate Station a compact through terminal station on the Circle Line. London Transport operated a direct limited stop peak hour services from the terminal platforms at Aldgate over the Circle Line and Metropolitan Line to Amersham, Chesham and Uxbridge, travelling at speed in LT A stock on the above ground sections of the Metropolitan Line could be an interesting and exciting experience for anyone used to the sedate progress of the DART

[GSR 800]

7 hours ago, Mayner said:

Didn't realise that you had started work on a city terminal, the photo of the B121 and A16 poking out under the footbridge and overall roof certainly captures the look of the prototype.

There were plans in the early 1900s for a city center terminus off Sackville/O'Connell St similar to an American Union terminal served by all main line companies serving Dublin. It would have had to be on a compact footprint being built in an already built ud densely populated city center area.

Funnily enough I worked in the Minories in the City of London during the late 1980s, in the evenings I used to travel home from Aldgate Station a compact through terminal station on the Circle Line. London Transport operated a direct limited stop peak hour services from the terminal platforms at Aldgate over the Circle Line and Metropolitan Line to Amersham, Chesham and Uxbridge, travelling at speed in LT A stock on the above ground sections of the Metropolitan Line could be an interesting and exciting experience for anyone used to the sedate progress of the DART

Very interesting stuff John. Any more info on the proposed O'Connoll St station? I'd imagine it'd be very cramped indeed! 

The idea of a US union style station served the major companies was where Amiens Central came from, though I wasn't sure of exact placement, though I figured it was central enough, being only a walk down Talbot street from O'Connell street. The design is somewhat influenced by minories in terms of track design.

[GSR 800]

Bit more work done on one of the train sheds today, few more struts and the last of the roofing added. Will need to buy more for train shed no.2.  Needs a good bit of tidying up!

 

Will need to do the Howth Platform/DSER canopy and finish the footbridge, along with a dozen other things. All in good time...

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B141 idles, her train having been shunted out to allow her to 'free' her from the platform. 

A15 arrives with the Sligo train as 141 revs up and heads off to the shed.

 

"Could do with some jaysus buffers" said the Driver. 

"I know some lads in Carrickmines who do them" said the Guard.

[leslie10646]

I thought that you were playing fast and loose with reality / history until I read the first post in the Thread. Consider the "Like" to be twice over. Nice building work, just as Mullingar was going. Sorry that that has been postponed!

By the way, nothing fictional about an 800 at Amiens Street - plenty of photographic evidence

[GSR 800]

14 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

I thought that you were playing fast and loose with reality / history until I read the first post in the Thread. Consider the "Like" to be twice over. Nice building work, just as Mullingar was going. Sorry that that has been postponed!

By the way, nothing fictional about an 800 at Amiens Street - plenty of photographic evidence

Aye the 800s, along with the 400s and 500s were regulars during the brief period of the Cork Enterprise. Generally used the CIE platforms. Shame it only lasted a few years, but I suppose it took so bloody long...then again the Bundoran express took a similar time for less distance..

[DJ Dangerous]

I missed your updates on this. The photos are fabulous! Love that shot of A15 and B141 sitting at the buffers.