Life around

Arnos Grove tube station  

 

 Traffic is never light around the hub of Arnos Grove on Boxing day. People heading back from London with their bargains from the sales are traveling from the train to buses and taxis.

 
"Low relief" is the model railroading term used to describe a building with only the front (or the back) visible. Sometimes part of one or two sides can also be seen, but you can't see behind the structure. It is for this reason that low relief buildings are very often positioned at the edge (or near to the edge) of a scale rail layout.

When making your own model railroad, the first thing you must know about is scales. The size of your trains and the size of your buildings and structures will all be based around the same scale. So if you choose HO scale for example; you will need to run HO scale trains, include HO scale structures and HO scale track. Mixing HO scale with N would look strange and unreal.

 Once I chose the type of building I wanted. I printed them out and glue them to card board.
I then back them with 3mm MDF board, this gave me a 3D look. When placed next to building glued straight to the backing board. Some of them were pack out with another 3mm to give a street scape of alleys

The bridge was a little tricky as print to scale and having it fit in with both the width of the road and match existing building next to it.

Once all the building are fixed in place I replaced the backing board with the rail viaduct and fencing in front it all look just right!

 

Its all in the detail

Once the track went down. I started the track side detail.
First  thing was to looking out of the windows my local train service noting what was sitting on the sides of the tracks
Sleepers  old and new
Spare rails
Piles of dirt
Gravel etc, etc ,etc

Next was what would be found around the work sheds

44 gallon oil drums
Signals, warning signs
Workmen
Water pumps
Track sheds

Next was how was the area used

Loading trucks with a cranes,
Timber platforms laid across the tracks
Retaining walls loco sheds
Station platform
Storage yards
This was my first stage of tack side details

 

  

2009 Stock Mark 2

The latest proto type to hit the tracks. Cardboard trains with cut out doors to give the model layers,   although still quite basic the models appear quite realistic

 

Covent Garden market

The first record of a "new market in Covent Garden" is in 1654 when market traders set up stalls against the garden wall of Bedford House. The Earl of Bedford acquired a private charter from Charles II in 1670 for a fruit and vegetable market, permitting him and his heirs to hold a market every day except Sundays and Christmas Day. The original market , consisting of wooden stalls and sheds, became disorganised and disorderly, and the 6th Earl requested an Act of Parliament in 1813 to regulate it, then commissioned Charles Fowler in 1830 to design the neo-classical market building that is the heart of Covent Garden today.The contractor was William Cubitt and Company. Further buildings were added—the Floral hall, Charter Market, and in 1904 the Jubilee Market for foreign flowers was built by Cubitt and Howard.

By the end of the 1960s, traffic congestion was causing problems for the market, which required increasingly large lorries for deliveries and distribution. Redevelopment was considered, but protests from the Covent Garden Community Association in 1973 prompted the Home Secretary, Robert Carr, to give dozens of buildings around the square listed-building status, preventing redevelopment. The following year the market relocated to its new site, New Covent Garden Market, about three miles (5 km) south-west at Nine Elms. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, with cafes, pubs, small shops and a craft market called the Apple Market. Another market, the Jubilee Market, is held in the Jubilee Hall on the south side of the square.