DARLINGTON WORKS: April 2009

Saturday, 25 April 2009

North Eastern Steam Main Title ready for viewing!

Thats right, the main title for the series North Eastern Steam, is ready for you to view.

So get a glimpse of what is going to be seen when the series starts in a few months!

Friday, 24 April 2009

East Allerton....at NIGHT!

Indeed,

we have all seen the images of East Allerton in the day time, but what about at night.... well here are the first pictures of he working lamps at East Allerton Station. They certainly give an atmosphere to the scene!

Sunday, 19 April 2009

East Allerton...nearing completion

East Allerton, my rural country station on the Eastcote Layout, is nearling completion. Compared to last pictures, there has been a real dramatic change.

We now have a hill overlooking the station 'Lady Hill'

Plus the track has been reworked to give East Allerton a 'Head Shunt' line so locos can shunt without having to cross onto the main line, and also, cross over lines have been added so that engines can use the yard on either the up or down line.

Anyhow these pictures show the current state of East Allerton...but don't forget there is more to come, such as.....

Station lights....coming very soon!

Lights Camera and ACTION! Eastcote Central hits Youtube in proper trailers!

Eastcote Central Layout has hit youtube in 3 trailers so far, all building up to the first episode of 'North Eastern Steam', my series documenting steam in the mid 50's to early 60's, all filmed on my layout.

The latest trailer can be seen here, although other trailers can be found by clicking on my youtube links at the bottom left of the main page.

For now enjoy the latest trailer, with another coming soon.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOT1KBnKYec

The North Eastern Region

Welcome to Eastcote Central, a fictional Main Line Station on the East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverly

After the Railways were nationalized in 1948, what had been the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) became the Eastern and North Eastern Region of British Railways.

Eastcote Central is quite similar in purpose to York or maybe Leeds, in that lines that come to Eastcote, come from all over the Region, mainly from the Eastern (as it was really part of the North Eastern) and London Midland.

Eastcote is served by Picton Whiske Sheds. Picton Whiske hosts a variety of locomotives, and usually you will find a number of Gresley and Peppercorn Pacifics. Maybe even the odd Thompson Pacific.

Does that mean we only see Ex-LNER locomotives, definitely not. Picton Whiske has a few Ex-LMS locomotives, such as the odd Black 5 and Jubilee.

Not forgetting that many ex LMS would conclude their journeys at Eastcote before heading back home over the Pennines, so seeing a Royal Scott and Rebuilt Patriot was often seen at Eastcote.

My actual layout is a giant loop measuring 14ft by 8ft.

The layout is a design by my Father and I. From Eastcote Central heading North, the layout curves left and heads into Hampden Tunnel, after leaving the Tunnel we come into East Allerton Station, a country station where many a small boy, (and bigger boy) can be seen taking numbers of the stopping passenger, slow goods or the fast non stop Express's which pass through either heading to London King's Cross or Edinburgh Waverly.

In these blogs, you will see constant updates of my work on the layout, plus plenty of pictures as construction continues

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