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
