Paul's layout

[exciecoachbuilder]

Hi guys, a "few" pictures of my layout. I started building it around 2013/14?, after looking at Johnathan and Barry's wonderful picture of Gort station, in their book 'rails through the west'. The initial plan was to try and build a 1970's Gort station,but as always with this hobby I got carried away, and it got bigger and bigger. So it is basically a fantasy Irish railway from the 60's, 70's and 80's. I really tried to stay ' supertrain', but I couldn't resist the Crossley A classes, and grey 121. It's hard to know if it will ever be finished, because I have chopped and changed a fair bit since I started building it. The terminus is the latest endeavor, so fingers crossed to see how that goes.? Paul.

[Patrick Davey]

Wow very impressive Paul!!  Where have you been hiding this!!  Delighted you have posted - plenty of interest and action there, looking forward to seeing more!!  Maybe some videos too?  Great work. 

[derek]

Great to see a new posting of a layout, even if the layout itself has been around for a while. Changes things up a bit. Agree with @Patrick Davey- you shouldn't have kept this under your hat Paul. Absolutely love the river- Woodland Scenics water?.

Edited November 1 by derek

[exciecoachbuilder]

8 minutes ago, derek said:

Great to see a new posting of a layout, even if the layout itself has been around for a while. Changes things up a bit. Agree with @Patrick Davey- you shouldn't have kept this under your hat Paul. Absolutely love the river- Woodland Scenics water?. 

Thanks very much guys, much appreciated. The water is actually a tin of varnish, that I poured over the river bed, and I wasn't sure how it would turn out. But it turned out ok for me. 

[Galteemore]

Hang your head in shame This should have been posted on the forum ages ago. Great to see another layout on here.

 

Edited November 1 by Galteemore

[Patrick Davey]

Folks it is definitely worth it to zoom in on all of Paul’s photographs, there is an incredible wealth of detail and little cameo scenes to appreciate eg the disconnected siding with a van with an open door, the river, the superb trackwork and much more. Well done that chap!

[Georgeconna]

Wow just pops outa nowwhere!! Class stuff. Few vids next

[exciecoachbuilder]

16 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

Folks it is definitely worth it to zoom in on all of Paul’s photographs, there is an incredible wealth of detail and little cameo scenes to appreciate eg the disconnected siding with a van with an open door, the river, the superb trackwork and much more. Well done that chap!

Thanks very much Patrick, the disconnected siding idea was from something that I saw many years ago up the yard ( top of the works) in Inchicore. There was a disconnected siding, but it had a derailed 611 class loco , a very disheveled grey h van and overgrown ancient buffer stop. I wondered why the per/ way lads didn't remove the vehicles before pulling up the tracks? I think that it's a nice feature on the layout.

[Galteemore]

28 minutes ago, exciecoachbuilder said:

Thanks very much Patrick, the disconnected siding idea was from something that I saw many years ago up the yard ( top of the works) in Inchicore. There was a disconnected siding, but it had a derailed 611 class loco , a very disheveled grey h van and overgrown ancient buffer stop. I wondered why the per/ way lads didn't remove the vehicles before pulling up the tracks? I think that it's a nice feature on the layout.

Very nice feature. Reminds me of the CCT and GUV left high and dry at Oxford for years when the siding was cut  - all swept away when Chiltern Railways built new platforms 

Edited November 2 by Galteemore

[Rob]

Looks excellent- great detail so lots to look at, zoom in on etc. 

Look forward to seeing more soon

[exciecoachbuilder]

2 hours ago, Rob said:

Looks excellent- great detail so lots to look at, zoom in on etc. 

Look forward to seeing more soon

Thanks very much Rob, much appreciated.

[LNERW1]

Beautiful. Is it a tail chaser, roundy roundy, whatever you want to call it or is it end-to-end?

[exciecoachbuilder]

1 hour ago, LNERW1 said:

Beautiful. Is it a tail chaser, roundy roundy, whatever you want to call it or is it end-to-end?

Hi, it's a bit of both really. I can do end to end (shunting etc) and I can sit back and watch the trains go around. I wanted to have an old school 'roundy roundy' part because I think that I would have gotten bored with just back and forth shunting. The two layouts are joined, so I can do a bit of shunting, and then run the train onto the roundy' roundy' part. But the best part , and what really keeps me interested in the whole thing, is building stuff, and creating different scenes. There is a big snag list on the layout, some scenes are not completely finished. AIso, i usually take a break and don't go near the layout for weeks on end, sometimes months. Paul.

[jhb171achill]

Wow!! Agree with others that this is a fantastic new burst on the scene! Very well done indeed, love the way it captures different eras 1969-80, and the detail! Whole thing works really well.

[exciecoachbuilder]

8 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Wow!! Agree with others that this is a fantastic new burst on the scene! Very well done indeed, love the way it captures different eras 1969-80, and the detail! Whole thing works really well.

Thanks very much Jonathan, it was  hard to stick with just one era with all the different models being released. Like a kid in a sweet shop, I wanted everything. But the 70's and 80's was my favorite era for Irish railways.

[exciecoachbuilder]

Hi guys, a few more photos for ye. 

[DJ Dangerous]

Love this!

You don't have a spare room to rent out, by any chance?