An overall view of Clarence Dock with the new bckscene section added.
Agnes Marston is just going to the local store with her dog 'Prince' leading. It is 1970s dogs did not have to leads to keep them close to their owners.
The car is a Hillman Imp. Charlie Marston must have made a sale at the scrap yard.
Across the road from the Marston's house , Joe Johnson's fence is in need of repair. I shall have to make a little cameo of him repairing it.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
NorthBritAgnes Marston is just going to the local store with her dog 'Prince' leading. It is 1970s dogs did not have to leads to keep them close to their owners. The car is a Hillman Imp. Charlie Marston must have made a sale at the scrap yard. Across the road from the Marston's house , Joe Johnson's fence is in need of repair. I shall have to make a little cameo of him repairing it.
Hi David,
More great scenes!! I dearly hope that when I get to the scenery stage that I will have enough patience to create such intricately detailed scenes. You are an excellent modeller!!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Thanks for your comments, Dave.
I was told some time back when doing scenery to do what you see and not what you think you see. Nature is many colors of the same thing; even when together.
Earth is many colors of brown. There are 'fifty shades of green' intermingling into one. The sky is not just blue and/or white. It is not always 'Summer'. Trees are differnt sizes; even the same type. Nature is not 'HO scale'.
Then do little cameos of life. Two or three people talking can be still there in five years time and still look right. Vehicles and people at a rail crossing. A delivery vehicle outside the store whilst the driver is inside the store. Just make sure the vehicle is relative to the store. Every so often move any vehicles not in a cameo around. You will see a different scene
Somebody under a vehicle doing repairs. Only the legs showing and a 'few tools' nearby. Somebody cleaning the windows of their house and they ar disturbed by a neighbor and they talk. There are millions more.
Simple little tricks that are common in real life.
Do not follow the usual stereotype layout. Dare to be different. Make your layout stand out from the crowd.
See what you see and not what you thought you saw.
I am still working on it.
NorthBritSee what you see and not what you thought you saw.
I think I understand what you mean. Time will tell if my understanding actually translates into scenes that are as interesting as yours.
Thanks,
hon30critter NorthBrit See what you see and not what you thought you saw. Thanks, Dave
NorthBrit See what you see and not what you thought you saw.
If you go to a Mall or store wait a few minutes and watch the people going in or coming out. How they suddenly stop and other people cannot pass. They see someone and stop to talk. Are they at the shopping trolley park? Is someone else waiting to return their trolley? Is there any birds on the ground? Take a photograph.
One little scene, a lot going on. A little scene that puts a layout up a notch.
Look at how the 'Greats' in Model Railroading do. Pelle Søeborg etc. Why are they 'Great'. Just follow their principal. Mostly it is little (plausible) cameos all around the layout. Cameos of believable scenes.
Anyone can do it. Just look at the picture you took at the Mall and put it on your layout. See what you see and not what you thought.
Look at a family walking in the street. Where are the kids? Are they in front? Behind? Have they seen something? Are they looking up at something; maybe a military airplane? Look again. Not an airplane but snowflakes. (It is not always Summer. )
If we look at life differently we see what we see.
Make the layout unique.
Happy modeling
NorthBritMake the layout unique.
David,
Thanks for the inspiration!
Sometimes trains do not have to be running to enjoy railroad modeling.
Getting ready for a goods train to arrive atClarence Dock.
A quiet time at the junction
Happy modeling.
A little running session.
A new purchase. A LMS Class 5 locomotive given a run. Entering Leeds Sovereign Street Station.
A Class 121 Leeds Central to Seacroft railcar waits at the signal whilst a 'late' diverted Liverpool to Newcastle train clears the junction.
Signals at go. The 1705 Leeds Central to Dewsbury Market Place DMU departing Leeds Sovereign Street Station.
A view from the control area.
Just how I like it. Knowing an engine is there, but can hardly see it. Class 58 58001 (top right) is approaching the stop signal at the junction on its way to Balm Road Yard.
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing. You do a great job with your layout.
York1 John
Thanks John. It is an easy layout to operate and is enjoyable to build.
David - I love your pictures, and your whole modelling ethos., Great work.
I especially liked the "SOLD" painted on the old loco. Now, you have to wonder, has it been sold for scrap (booo!) or to an enthusiastic restorer so that one day it may live again
Bob ( a Cambs Brit).
FowlmereRR David - I love your pictures, and your whole modelling ethos., Great work. I especially liked the "SOLD" painted on the old loco. Now, you have to wonder, has it been sold for scrap (booo!) or to an enthusiastic restorer so that one day it may live again Bob ( a Cambs Brit).
It is evening. The 1718 London Kings X to Leeds Central Pullman service arrival into Leeds is running late due signal failure on the main line. It to being diverted on to the secondary route past Crown Point and Leeds Sovereign Street, then to Leeds Central. Here we see it passing Marston's Yard D9004 Queen's Own Highlander in charge.
Another evening shot. This time D1008 Western Harrier is diverted because of engineering works. She is on the Newcastle to Liverpool service due into Leeds Central at 1814. Here she is at the junction.
And passing Roseville Station. The Christmas lights are on in the village.
The young girl is in trouble for not doing her share of work.
Is the boy in trouble and the Policeman admonishing him, or is the lad asking the Policeman a question?
A long way from home. The Highland Stag on the side of Class 25 25218 tells us it is an Inverness, Scotland based engine and is heading south to Immingham, England.
Class 26 26016 is passing Roseville School with the evening oil train
The rear of the train at the crossing.
Engines have been changed and is now passing Crown Point Yard.
Now waiting at the signal. Class 25 25218 in charge.
Looks great, David!
Those Shell tank cars look like they just came out of the factory.
Mark P.
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Thanks Mark. The tank cars belong to my son, and they 'live' on my layout. My son doesn't like weathering his items. They fit in with the timeframe of the layout of just been built, so look brand new.
Class 47 47587 County of Hertfordshire on a Royal Mail Parcels Service from Doncaster to Leeds Central. At the rear is a passenger carriage. British Railways would pay Royal Mail to add the coach on to the train. It saved BR running the service themselves.
The same train at Crown Point.
Class 27 27037 at Crown Point Yard. It is a Glasgow Eastfield based locomotive,, easily identified by the 'dog' on the side.
A drop of oil here. A drop of oil there.
Class 52 D1013 Western Ranger at Crown Point Yard.
Train services on Leeds Sovereign Street and Crown Point Yard are simple and easy to operate.
Leeds Central Station (the next station down from Sovereign Street) actually closed in 1967, but I use modeler's licence and the station is still open in 1972
With the lines being secondary routes the trains operated are Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs) from/to Leeds Central to Wakefield Kirkgate, Leeds Central to Dewsbury Market Place, Leeds Central to Wetherby. A Class 121 Unit runs Leeds Central to Seacroft.
A DMU bound for Dewsbury and Class 121 at the junction.
There are trains of two carriages and diesel locomotive on the following routes;
Leeds Central to York, Leeds Central to Goole and Leeds Central to Castleford.
The timetable used is the 1966 Leeds Central one. Trains arriving at Central Station on the Main Lines North, West & South exchange engines before carrying on with their journies. The locomotives arriving then run light to Crown Point Yard for refuelling ready for their next turn of duty.
Locomotives from Stourton Freight Yard and Balm Road Quarry Sidings also run light to Crown Point, refuel and return.
Sometimes to add more variety, I have diverted trains off the Main Line. Then we may see a London to Leeds Pullman service, 'Thames - Clyde', 'Thames - Forth' or Liverpool to Newcastle expresses.
Then there is the Holiday Excursions, a Soccer Special.
Add a few freight trains and I am busy. A real, living railroad.
Two pictures from the running session yesteday.
From a donor locomotive I made Class 47 47404 'Hadrian', a Gateshead based locomotive. Within two days of me finishing the model Bachmann Europe brought out an identical one.
I also built the Class 55 engine at the rear. 22 locomotives of the class were built and named after either racehorses or Regiments of the British Army. This engine is number 55023 and is named 9th Queen's Royal Lancers. The number folllows the last one of the class. The name is after the Regiment my father was in.
I metion previously of diverted trains running on the layout.
Here is Class 45 45048 The Royal Marines with a diverted Thames - Forth Express. Class 45s and Class 46s were regulars on both Thames - Forth & Thames - Clyde services. In reality both trains followed the same route until north of Carlisle. There, the Clyde service went to Glasgow, the Forth service to Edinburgh. The Clyde service was half an hour ahead. The same on return.
I like to keep the correct classes of locomotives on the correct services.
A Short History Lesson
In 1909 fearing a war with a country from the East, (No country was ever mentioned.) the British Government ordered Railway Companies to make Ambulance Carriages.
In 1912/13 several Military Manouvres took place in Anglia in the threat of an invasion.
1914 War was declared against Germany and her Allies.
Munitions Factories began their work.
The Munitions Factory at Barnbow, Leeds was built and became National Shell Filling Factory Number One. Railway tracks were laid into Barnbow.
It was just after 10pm on Tuesday 5th December 1916, when several hundred women and girls had just begun their night shift. Their tasks that fateful evening consisted as they normally did, of filling, fusing, finishing off and packing 4½ inch shells. Room 42 was mainly used for the filling, and between 150 and 170 girls worked there. Shells were brought to the room already loaded with high explosive and all that remained was the insertion of the fuse and the screwing down of the cap. A girl inserted the fuse by hand, screwed it down and then it was taken and placed into a machine that revolved the shell and screwed the fuse down tightly.
At 10.27pm a violent explosion rocked the very foundations of Room 42 killing 35 women outright, maiming and injuring dozens more. In some cases identification was only possible by the identity disks worn around the necks of the workers. The machine where the explosion had occurred was completely destroyed. Steam pipes had burst open and covered the floor with a cocktail of blood and water. Within a few hours of the explosion, bodies having been taken out, other girls were volunteering to work in room 42. Production was stopped only briefly.
Barnbow was Britain’s premier shell factory between 1914 and 1918 and at the end of hostilities on 11 November 1918, production stopped for the first time. By that time a total of 566,000 tons of finished ammunition had been dispatched overseas.
Fast forward to 1936. Britain introduced a massive rearmaments program on all thee Military Services - Army, Navy and Air Force. It is said, Britain was preparing for war in 1941. Barnbow was reactivated, this time making Tanks. and became Royal Ordnance Factory
(R. O. F.). Leeds.
Production of tanks continued until 2004 when ROF Leeds closed.
The site is now a housing estate.
In October 2016, the site of Barnbow Munitions Factory was listed as a scheduled monument.
There are two memorials to those killed, each listing all the names. In Manston Park is a stone with a plaque. On Cross Gates Road, by the roundabout at the Ring Road are 3 small stones with a simple inscription. Around them on the ground are metal tiles, each bearing the name of one of the women.
Today streets on the estate are named after the women killed in the explosion in 1916.
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On the layout I have nurses doing practice outside Leeds Sovereign Station.
For increased traffic I have trains taking goods and workers to and from Barnbow.
Another source of traffic on the layout is taking workers and supplies to and from Blackburn's Aircraft Works at Olympia Works, Roundhay, Leeds.
Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company started making Aeroplanes in Balm Road, Leeds.
They opened another factory in Roundhay in 1914. In association with Hudswell Clarke production of aircraft and parts continued up to 1961 alongside their other factory in Brough, Yorkshire.
Upon closure work was trasferred to Hudswell Clarke, Jack Lane near Balm Road, Leeds.
The site at Olympia Works, Roundhay is now a supermarket. A small section of the land is the Air Training Corps.
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The beauty of a little research bring a reason to run different traffic on a railroad. Thus making it a 'Living Model Railroad'.
A Class 58 58001 On a Northbound 'Quarry Train' to Northumberland, passing 'Marston's Yard.
The early arrival of the Wakefield Kirkgate to Leeds Central waits at the signal for The Calls Junction, whilst the Class 121 Seacroft to Leeds Central has right of way. The tall signal is a new addition and needs 'bedding in'. The tall signais required because of the footbridge obscuring the drivers of trains view.
The Wakefield Kirkgate to Leeds Central DMU arriving at Leeds Sovereign Street Station. The Leeds Central destination sign on the DMU is done on the computer, printed and affixed to the front.
The Class 58 with the Northbound train of Quarry wagons. The locomotive is slow on its 'fast speed' irrespective what it is pulling. Therefore looks great hauling full coal wagons which it normally does.
The scenery is still being redone from the footbridge to the front.
A long way from home, Inverness based Class 37 37026 'Glencairn' on a diverted Newcastle to Liverpool service. At Leeds Central engines will be exchanged and a Class 52 will take over. After refuelling at Crown Point Yard, 37026 will return to Newcastle on a later service.
I saw this 'lomac and aeroplane load' and had to buy it. Here it is on its way to 'Olympia Works' Roundhay.
Little scenes bringing some life to the reason of the layout. Father and son watching the trains.
What are they seeing? A Class 26 26016 on a freight train bound for Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) at Barnbow.
The same train at Canal Corner.
Class 47 47474 Sir Rowland Hill arrives at Crown Point Yard to refuel. Behind is Class 55 55016 Gordon Highlander about to depart on her next turn of duty, the 1411 Leeds Central departure to London Kings Cross.
Class 47 47474 receiving a drop of oil here and there to be ready for the Up Postal at 2245.
Class 47 47401 North Eastern on the 1511 Leeds Central to York arriving at Roseville Station. The locomotive's home base is Gateshead
Another Gateshead based locomotive Class 47 47402 Gateshead on a Castleford to Leeds Central train due arrival 1558.
Having locomotives running for a reason keeps the enjoyment at a high point.
A Steam Special. Former London, Midland & Scottish Railway locomotive 46210 Lady Patricia at the junction.
That is correct up to Nationalisation when British Railways changed the colors of rolling stock.
The layout is set in the timeframe of 1968 to 1972 and the engine is running as a 'Steam Special'.
Lastspikemike I left England in 1965, departing from Albert Dock in Liverpool. My last memory of British steam was an A4 down from Newcastle arriving at Kings Cross. That was green LNER as it appears in my mind's eye.
I left England in 1965, departing from Albert Dock in Liverpool.
My last memory of British steam was an A4 down from Newcastle arriving at Kings Cross. That was green LNER as it appears in my mind's eye.
That could be British Railways Green.
They did B R blue, changing to green. A lot were changed to black color.
Some ex LNER remained Apple Green or Silver.