Amiens Street Terminus

[Kirley]

Fantastic viaduct Stephen, it’s hard to match a professional job, well done Dave –it’s a great advertisement for your skills. Again I would recommend Glenderg to provide covering for the viaduct; he’s doing some bridge covers for me hopefully to arrive before Christmas.

[Dave]

Thanks guys for the kind words, much appreciated:tumbsup:

[201bhoy]

I love the viaduct, it's superb! There are so many layouts I am gaining inspiration from on the site, Anthony's Ballykay, Annestown, Noel's Tara Junction to name just a few, but I especially love this layout and Baby GM's layout as you can see the day-to-day progress! I can't wait to see the first first train passing over the viaduct and the station terminus when it's finished!

[Barl]

That viaduct looks brilliant, lovely job:-bd

[BosKonay]

Managed to make lots of invisible progress today

 

Soldered droppers to 12 lengths of flex track and 6 points

 

Cleared and started layout for the mainline and drilled all the holes for the last few points at the terminus junction, and mocked up some track over the viaduct

 

[BosKonay]

Sorry for the photos! Forgot to put on the lights!

[Kirley]

I agree with the "invisible progress" situation, after working for hours nothing seems to have changed. But laying track on the viaduct is one very positive statement.

[201bhoy]

Lovely sweeping curve on the viaduct! Looks just right!

[BabyGM]

Brilliant work I can't wait to see the viaduct up and running with an 071 going round it

[BosKonay]

Me neither!

 

The radius across the viaduct is just around 1 meter, and I plan to superelevate the running lines too, so the DD set should look lovely sweeping around the curve

[RedRich]

Me neither!

 

The radius across the viaduct is just around 1 meter, and I plan to superelevate the running lines too, so the DD set should look lovely sweeping around the curve

 

I love watching this progress Stephen. There is great modelling all round. I know that it is inspiring a lot of people myself included. It's going to be special and your efforts are an example to all of how hard work and persistence go hand in hand to produce a magical layout.

 

Rich,

[BosKonay]

Thanks Rich, I worry sometimes I'm boring the pants off people with too many 'work in progress' shots and not enough 'trains'

[Sulzer201]

Its never boring Steven as Rich says its great to see individual projects and components of the layout coming together and developing. There is a lot of work and attention to detail required on a large layout of this scale and quality. For the likes of myself it is raising the bar and giving food for thought for making improvements, albeit, on a much smaller and less complex scale.

[Guest hidden-agenda]

That viaduct looks great and Dave has done an excellent job on it, some brick work around it and you have a sight to behold with trains passing over it.

[RedRich]

Thanks Rich, I worry sometimes I'm boring the pants off people with too many 'work in progress' shots and not enough 'trains'

 

That's never going to be an issue Stephen, look at how many pages and replies that are in this thread. When I am ready to start my own layout I will be using DCC and cobalt motors for points and signals. So there will be questions fired in your direction. We're getting a free education and it's about model railways, how good is that.

 

Rich,

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Keep the photos coming Stephen

[BosKonay]

Thanks for the encouragement lads, for me the posts are as much a diary as anything else I get an hour here, two hours there, sometimes going a week or two without any time, so keeping a log and taking snaps helps remind me where I left off and what I'm actually getting done

[BosKonay]

 

Finishing the junction at the mouth of the station, thought I'd try a new approach on the ballasting. For this crossover, I plastered the underlay with glue, then stuck the crossing down, poking the wires through the pre-drilled holes. Then liberally poured ballast all over, 'tamping' it down with a finger.

 

A few hours later and the excess brushed off it looks like this - not bad at all, no ballast on track, on the rails, etc, and very very easy! Will invest in a little hand held hoover methinks - but an excellent way to ballast points and crossings 'as you go'!

[BosKonay]

Second little job was sticking down the underlay for the sweep of mainline in front of the terminus, swinging off to the left in the distance.

Edited December 11, 2012 by BosKonay

[Dave]

Looking good!

[Glenderg]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]4405[/ATTACH] thought I'd try a new approach on the ballasting

 

Great to see as many approaches to this mystic part of layout creation as possible. In fairness, your layout has everything ballast wise, from high shoulders to diesel dipped platform areas, so a tutorial might be posted when you're finished ?

2017?

Possibly a rolling tutorial? R.

[WRENNEIRE]

Is that a timber train on the left?

[BosKonay]

Glenderg - good idea - I'm going to lay more points and straights with this new method, so will snap photos of the steps.

 

Wrenn - - I actually had to go back and look at the photo to see what you meant :) Very funny

 

That's the TooBEToo Special

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

That timber train is brilliant =))

[Broithe]

I'll confess that I looked at it for a while before I finally saw it.

 

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees...

[Kirley]

When I saw it I thought it was a Block Train!

[BosKonay]

:Groan:

[BosKonay]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BosKonay]

Timber train has cleared the line In prep for track laying and the start of the curve to the left ahead, heading for the lift-out section in front of the door, before the viaduct!

 

Too wavy?

[irishthump]

Timber train has cleared the line In prep for track laying and the start of the curve to the left ahead, heading for the lift-out section in front of the door, before the viaduct!

 

Too wavy?

 

Personally I would try to have one long, gentle curve. It can be a bit peculiar looking if a long train's coaches are bobbing from side to side! Have you got the space to do that?

 

Everything looks great though!

[BosKonay]

I need a slight S to align the junction at the throat with the junction in the foreground

 

 

The track basically turns after the throat junction, then takes a sweeping curve to meet the next junction - the photos make it seem a bit more abrupt maybe than it is - the entire wave is about 8 feet

[BosKonay]

As you can see, I need to turn more sharply after the throat to avoid those sidings (hindsight of course would have left them out, or reduced to one).

 

Once cleared, the track gently realigns with the crossing in the foreground.

[Garfield]

The 'S' looks OK to me... it's gentle enough and it's a feature that isn't all that uncommon.

[irishthump]

The track basically turns after the throat junction, then takes a sweeping curve to meet the next junction - the photos make it seem a bit more abrupt maybe than it is - the entire wave is about 8 feet

 

I wish you had put up that picture before I opened my big mouth! It looks a lot better from that direction...

[BosKonay]

Not at all, I find the iphone seems to compress the field from some angles!

I could of course say that I'm aiming for a 'no straight lines' model :) Covers a multitude of sins :)

 

Thanks a million for the feedback guys!

 

Hope tomorrow to get the last few points in the throat laid and this section of mainline from the throat to the lift out section laid, then move directly on to starting the same over the viaduct!

 

With a bit of luck, i should have powered track running over the viaduct by the middle of next week