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]]> Sun May 20 2007 crown street, the model at exhibitions http://michael-delamar.fotoblog.co.uk/c1279724.html photos in this gallery of the layout exhibited at Liverpool model railway show 5th and 6th may 2007, and expo EM show, Bletchley 12th and 13th may 2007 the layout is still not finished and there is a lot more detail to be added to it Tuesday 15 May 2007: photos in this gallery of the layout exhibited at Liverpool model railway show 5th and 6th may 2007, and expo EM show, Bletchley 12th and 13th may 2007 the layout is still not finished and there is a lot more detail to be added to it

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]]> Tue May 15 2007 crown st, the model under construction http://michael-delamar.fotoblog.co.uk/c866815.html photos in this collection are of the model layout under construcion, work started in october 2005 Monday 20 February 2006: photos in this collection are of the model layout under construcion, work started in october 2005

the best part of our club nights is goin for a bevy afterwards, me an jim avin a pint carving roads carving out curbs what will be overbury street roads nearly ready for painting view of overbury street and tunnel before painting before painting, showing lift up section overbury street new lift up section for easy clening of track in fiddle yard another view of overbury street and waste ground roads nearing completion board 2 getting paintwork another view of the cutting on kitchen table cutting board on kitchen table, waiting to have clay put on the top for the roads view of the 3 tunnels, work stil to do in getting the colours right cutting under construction just about to get clay absolutley everywhere on me mums kitchen table apples and all!!! the top board with the embankment will be removable once finished. making a start on a row of old terrace houses if the arches on the right look a bit wonky its because they are, im going to replace them. good shot of chris hewitts very nice hand built point , which i am over the moon with, although he left it to me to glue all the chairs on, cheers chris, good job its the only one on the layout that is detailed, the rest are going to be cast in clay. earlier stages the middle peice was a bit of scrap wood i found and chisiled the cutting out of it, the rest is 6 mil ply early cardboard plan of the tunnels, they will be made out of wood the space in the middle house a single track traverser. the middle fiddle yard, for the wapping tunnel early days before track and point was laid the ventilation shaft nearing completion making a start on the ventilation shaft removable board with tunnel entrance embankment and what will be the streets, this top board will also be made to be removeable there will be two rows of terrace housing on the left board, as well as the ones above the cutting. when finished this will be the rear of lissant st overlooking the cutting the yard with some of chris's points not yet laid down jinty next to the steps bachmann jinty already regauged to em, i will soon renumber to an edge hill engine and detailed more and weather it, chris regauged the jinty for me and started this boiler room on the left.cheers buddy some old minix cars next to the houses while i was building it bachmann jinty posing in the cutting , a very nice ready to run model loco although the basic shape of the cutting and steps are there it is going to take a lot of weathering to make it look right before i had the long ardious job of cutting all the windows out, the structure of the houses is card used for framing pictures. cutting is 6 mil ply, plasticard and das modelling clay, ive noticed that sinced ive downloaded these pics it looks a little lower than the prototype so ill build it up a little higher i gave this part of the cutting a coating of grey before rubbing down with wet and dry to see where the lumps and bumps where and smoothe them out still needs a lot of work, the arches will be done again cutting again points in the yard i admire chris's point building although these are not as detailed as the one in the cutting as they will all be covered in clay and then cobbles carved. stephenson original tunnel and smithdown lane bridge, this will be on dowels as the whole triangular piee covers the baseboard join the wagon, is just inside what will be the stephenson single track tunnel marking out where the cutting would go in card

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]]> Mon Feb 20 2006 crown st, the prototype http://michael-delamar.fotoblog.co.uk/c855157.html The pics here are of the goods yard at crown street liverpool, and the famous cutting leading in to the yard, it is a very historic area, it is the site of the original Liverpool terminus on the liverpool to manchester railway, the first city to city railway in the world opening in 1830, although the station was proved to small and too far from the city centre, so not long after Liverpool lime street was built and crown street was then converted for use as a goods yard finally closing in 1972. The period of the model railway i am constructing is late 1950s early 1960s when the yard and the line down to park lane goods was still busy and it was the transition era on british railways from steam to diesel, also a time when thousand of miles of railway lines in britain were closing. Thursday 9 February 2006: The pics here are of the goods yard at crown street liverpool, and the famous cutting leading in to the yard, it is a very historic area, it is the site of the original Liverpool terminus on the liverpool to manchester railway, the first city to city railway in the world opening in 1830, although the station was proved to small and too far from the city centre, so not long after Liverpool lime street was built and crown street was then converted for use as a goods yard finally closing in 1972. The period of the model railway i am constructing is late 1950s early 1960s when the yard and the line down to park lane goods was still busy and it was the transition era on british railways from steam to diesel, also a time when thousand of miles of railway lines in britain were closing.

stephensons original tunnel is on the right which is filled in at the crown street end, the tunnel next to it leads down to wapping dock/park lane goods. many thanks to nick catford the original single line tunnel on the left was widened to double track in the 1840s, note also the flew chimneys for the stationary steam engines that where in the cutting to work the ropeway down to wapping. looking towards edge hill as it is now, with chatsworth street bridge above many thanks to nick catford workers accommodation!!! many thanks to nick catford as it was when it first opened in the 1830s. the moorish arch seen here demolished not long after when the cutting on the right was widened, and replaced wth chatsworth street bridge about a hundred yards further down looking towards edge hill there was 2 entrances to the yard from wapping cutting the original george stephenson single track tunnel which is now filled in and this the 1840s shorter tunnel, the tunnel to wapping is in under the embankment on the left, the embankment on the right has only recently been made as part of the park landscaping, sidings used to fan out here but it is now a headshunt to alow freight trains to run round looking towards crown street from chatsworth street bridge as it is today, you can just spot the ventilation shaft for the wapping tunnel directly above it, the siding on the left are still used today to enable mgr trains to run round smithdown lane bridge is now filled in and landscaped this is the yard as it is today, the ventialtion shaft for the wapping tunnel is still there, the yard has been landscaped to make a public park arial view 1960s on the bottom left is the yard, which originally was the station, and the cutting leading to it at edge hill station on the right, and the other line to the top left is the newer line to lime street. map of the previous picture, around 1900 plan of the remodelled layout post 1957, this is much simpler here than it was. the different colour sidings denote what coal merchant use what siding crown street coal yard mid 1960s, crown street is the main road in the centre with the cars on, smithdown lane is just visable on the far right the flats are called myrtle gardens and myrtle house since demolished part of these will be modelled, note the ventilation shaft for the wapping tunnel in the centre, also oldham brothers scrapyard, many thanks to brian saville for letting me use his photo, check out his great liverpool picture gallery http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/brian/index.html arial view towards edge hill, the yard is on the left and the cutting leading to edge hill station, the edge hill gridiron marshalling yard is in the distance, late 1960s view along the cutting towards the yard late 1960s a drewery shunting in 1964, the line into the agricultural yard and oldham brothers scrap yard can just be seen curving away to the right of the shunter. view from smithdown lane bridge just after the yard had closed in 1972 entrance to the agricultural yard, smithdown lane is top right 1957 an erf van in the agricultural yard, which a part of was used by oldham bros scrap merchants, i will be making a model of this thanks to billy who used to work in oldham brothers for telling me the colour of it light blue myrtle gardens, appears to be when new in the 1930s oldham bros scrapyard offices part of which will be modelled martindales was one of the biggest users of the yard at crown street nice view from inside the single track stephenson tunnel the bridge plate is actually 4 a liverpool daily post article from 1956 during track remodelling in the yard. a liverpool echo article from 1975, you can just make out the single line tunnel which leads to the wapping cutting in the middle of the picture, smithdown land bridge, and also an old buffer stop in the foreground 1980 before the stephenson tunnel and the bridge where filled in, the stone buffer stop is still there although it isnt today i belive it was put in the liverpool museum stephensons single line tunnel under here somewhere!! another shot as it is today of the top of stephensons tunnel, you can see the ground is giving way near to the crown of the tunnel another shot of smithdown lane bridge smithdown lane bridge and stephensons original tunnel filled in a converted tractor pulling wagons out of the 1840s tunnel in 1931 this is where the modern day head shunt is, roughly where the first wagon is is where the buffer stop is today looking towards edge hill from smithdown lane bridge in the yard 1972 ariel view of edge hill in 1970 showing the slum clearance and the cutting in the middle, also the new school above the tunnels, the exit of the 1840s tunnel can just be seen in the top left of the picture left tunnel- crown street, centre park lane goods over a mile away, right- crown st goods a diesel shunter works a train up from park lane goods wapping cutting 1930s note the flower beds, the plants and trees are still there today all though about 40 feet tall!!! 1965 looking up from tunnel, the park lane branch is closed here and rails have been placed over both lines to prevent access. 1961 note the old london and north western lower quadrant signal, and brakevan parked in the short siding the boiler house on the left has since been dismantled although the arch and recess are still there today, also the steps where demolished aswel, probably to stop the local kids climbin up them!!, note the horse shoes above the door an ex LMS jackshaft diesel shunter pulls a train up from the docks the cutting in 1957 around 1900s, railway workers stand on the steps mid 70s shot when line was closed, the tunnel on the left was later opened again to provide a headshunt. wapping cutting in the 1980s, when the site was excavated as part of the rocket 150 celebrations, note the trench which has been dug up which in the very early days used to have a winding mechanism to hawl wagons up from wapping, many thanks to colin parsons check out his great site about the liverpool manchester railway here http://www.colinfparsons.btinternet.co.uk/twinp/colhome/edgehill/edgehill.htm 1970s cutting in 1976 with the boiler house wall falling down.

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