CAS Weekly: 12/12/14

December 12, 2014August 23, 2016Andy Carter 1 Comment

It’s my intention to start curating a weekly wrap of interesting railway based news (of a both real and modelling persuasion). So here’s this weeks interesting stories:

Modelling

Pendolino in N have set up a ground funding website to make an N-Gauge model of the Virgin Pendolino 390’s.
Loco Yard are running their traditional Advent Calendar feed…
…as are OO Rail.
A man has created the best (or worst?) Christmas jumper which includes a working model railway as seen in The Metro.

UK Rail

The Londonist have created a Medieval Tube Map of Ye Olde Ancient London destinations.
They’ve also ran a pole on who should get the armrest on trains…
London Bridge Station is to start an extensive 3 year remodeling program over the Christmas period. Expect Disruption.
London Reconnections are running a challenging transport themed Christmas Quiz! Entrants could win limited edition 1:120 models from the Corgi Railways Legends collection.
TfL have announced their ‘Ticket Hall Transformation Schedule.’ (Or job cuts to you and me).
Geoff Marshal takes a sneak peak at the ongoing work to revamp Tottenham Court Road station for Crossrail.
A petition to save Ashburton Station is on 38 Degrees.
The UK Rail network continues to get busier…
…and more expensive.

Langstead – Episode 25: Winter 2014 Updates

December 7, 2014March 3, 2015Andy Carter Leave a comment

It’s high time for a layout update, and you may remember back in the summer I did a roundup of Langstead’s complete story from start to finish…

…At the end I hinted towards what was happening next: Construction of two new upper tiers, a tube station and a small yard above that. So let’s back peddle slightly to how I arrived at the picture above.

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Exploration: The Northern Heights

GalleryDecember 2, 2014January 12, 2015Andy Carter 3 Comments

The Edgware London & Highgate Railway opened in 1867. It was almost immedately taken over by The Great Northern Railway and ran services from Edgware, High Barnet and Alexandra Palace to Finsbury Park via Highgate and then onto Moorgate on what is now the Thameslink Northern City Line.

In 1933 it was announced that the line would be amalgamated into London Underground’s Northern Line as part of The New Works Programme and the entire route was to be electrified during the 1930’s. The scheme became known as ‘The Northern Heights.’ Quick and efficient electric trains would then serve the line to The City, as well as the West End, via a newly constructed tunnel linking the line with the tube network at Archway.

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Merry Christmas From Calling All Stations

December 2, 2014December 29, 2014Andy Carter 3 Comments

Filmed on location in Langstead.

A little diorama to keep me busy

November 27, 2014December 7, 2014Andy Carter Leave a comment

A fantastic little diorama from GWSRAlex on LocoYard. Very simple yet with so much to look at, this project proves modelling doesn’t have to take up acres of space.

Loco Yard

Locoyard seems to be suffering a bit of a railway modelling drought at the moment, apart from Simon’s excellent exhibition articles, with lots of posts on the big railways. Mr Locoyard himself is still dithering about what to do ;-), so I thought I’d post a bit about a diorama I made to keep me busy and to try out a few things, such as static grass. First off, choose a subject. I’m rubbish at imagining places, so it had to be somewhere real. I chose the approach to Winchcombe station (shown above) with the road over rail bridge as a main feature as I could visit regularly to get photographs to model from. There would also be a small amount of platform to model, some signals and embankment, so lots of interesting stuff in a small space.