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 Post subject: Crown Point Diesels
PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:23 pm 
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Although Glencairn Scholarsgate layout was good fun to operate many of my diesel locomotives did not 'a decent run'. Also the area depicted was different to steam trains at Sovereign Street.

A time for a change.

The new plan is not to have a station.
A new engine shed where the old station was, so more diesels can be run in a session.
More scenery added at the old engine shed area.

The main point for me was, both steam and diesel running was the same place =-=- just 50 or so years apart. :)

When running steam engines Crown Point is a small goods yard in 1914/19. When running diesels Crown Point is a diesel shed in 1970/80 for engines at Leeds Central and Balm Road Quarry Sidings. (Both off stage).

I mention trains running to Leeds Central Station. As the real station closed 1st May 1967 I have taken the liberty of modellers licence and it is still open. It was opened in 1854 as a joint station between the London and North Western Railway, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, the Great Northern Railway and the North Eastern Railway. It replaced the cramped LNW terminus at Wellington Street, which had opened in 1848 with the line to Dewsbury.

On the model layout trains from Earlsheaton Junction are mainly DMUs and go to Leeds Central

DMUs also leave Central Station and travel to Wetherby and York passing Roseville School etc. on the way.

Diverted trains from the south can and do pass Crown Point and Sovereign Street before arriving Leeds Central. Hence Class 55s are seen. :)

Diverted trains from Huddersfield and Manchester also use the line. Class 52s are the locos in charge. (I have had a 'soft spot ' for them ever since I was 16 years of age) (Rule number 1 applies)

The odd train is seen diverted on the 'Wetherby Line'

Diesel engines that are seen at Crown Point are refuelled if necessary and go to Central Station OR Balm Road Quarry Sidings for their next turn of duty. Now I have a great turn round of diesel engines which I did not have before.

All good fun :D

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 Post subject: Re: Crown Point Diesels
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It's all go again. but i think that. that is all part of the enjoyment of railway modelling. Please keep us posted, but watch out for Graham's 'ealth and safety bods' :D

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 Post subject: Re: Crown Point Diesels
PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:43 pm 
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Too early for the elf'n'safety brigade. :lol:

Crown Point Diesel Yard
Earlsheaton Junction to Leeds Central DMU passing.

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Crown Point.

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Looking good, don't worry about the health and safety people, I had them shot after they objected to my new siding!

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Graham and Jo wrote:
Looking good, don't worry about the health and safety people, I had them shot after they objected to my new siding!

Cheers Graham
About time. :D

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Charlie Marston's new Scrap Yard. The Dai Woodham of Yorkshire. Charlie is talking to a prospective buyer. Young Jimmy Marston is fixing the wheel on the lorry and Max the guard dog is wondering over to see what the problem is.

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Class 142 waits at the signal whilst a Class 52 clears the junction on a diverted train to Leeds Central

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Walking the dog past Roseville School.

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Just one word, well actually seven. Impressive.

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Wow, I love the scrap yard but it's so sad!!

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Graham and Jo wrote:
Wow, I love the scrap yard but it's so sad!!

Cheers Graham


Thanks, Graham. I have always had a scrap yard on my layouts. I wanted something a little different to the 'norm'.

Something a bit more relaxing and calmer. :D

'Clarice' the canal boat.

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Beyond te boat is actually backscene.
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Lancastrian wrote:
Just one word, well actually seven. Impressive.


Thanks Maurice.

I am having fun with building and running the layout. :D

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Driver John Thompson (of W.A. Glendinning, Shotley Bridge) was regularly seen in Leeds. Here he is about to talk to Foreman Tim Sullivan.
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It must be nearly home time? A couple of ladies waiting outside Roseville School for their 'little darlings'.

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Class 121 has new destinations added. Here it is on a late morning service to Seacroft.

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The trees at the rear of the layout were well past their best so have been removed. New trees and bushes have now been added.

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Another view of the new trees and bushes.
A Dewsbury Market Place to Leeds Central DMU is on its way.

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The DMU is arriving at Sovereign Street

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Great photographs is this gallery. :D

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Lancastrian wrote:
Great photographs is this gallery. :D


Absolutely, I think I have said this before but I love how much you pack in.

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Thanks, Maurice and Graham.

It's just little snippets of my life around a layout.

Wyndham Farm building is in Cumbria. My son is on the quad bike on Longstruther Farm, North Tynedale. Ash Farm Fields and lake is in North Tynedale. Crown Point is in Leeds. Sovereign Street is in Leeds. (Getting the bus to Earlsheaton at the bus stop there was okay during the day. A Sunday evening walking through The Calls area was rather scary for an eight or nine year old.) Roseville School is almost a replica of one in Earlsheaton, but brick instead of stonework. The street between the school and the scrap yard reminds me of Earlsheaton and Whitley (both near Dewsbury). The small Industrial estate has memories of different firms I have been associated with. The Coach and Horses Inn takes me back to the Postal Service. The local Hunt with the dogs reminds me of North Tynedale.

The scrap yard was something I always wanted on a layout.

All good fun. :D

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