Grahame's N/2mm London Bridge train set

[grahame]

Here's a couple of interesting snaps of the canopy, from a similar position but with a few years (probably more than 20) between them. Note the added 'London Bridge' lettering on the valance and the older style street lights replaced with more modern types. The bottom section of New London Bridge House has also had cladding added covering the hexagonal windows and the Underground entrance seemed to have gone:

 

[timbowales]

Just shows that the dating of photos to your modelled timeframe is essential to avoid adding incorrect details

 

[40057]

Here's a couple of interesting snaps of the canopy, from a similar position but with a few years (probably more than 20) between them. Note the added 'London Bridge' lettering on the valance and the older style street lights replaced with more modern types. The bottom section of New London Bridge House has also had cladding added covering the hexagonal windows and the Underground entrance seemed to have gone:

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Presumably the Underground entrance had been moved inside the main-line station, hence the two logos on the valance?

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Presumably the Underground entrance had been moved inside the main-line station, hence the two logos on the valance?

It was removed as part of the Underground station redevelopment when the Jubilee line extension was built from Green Park to Stratford between 1993 and 1999. This is an axonometric view but it's hard to match to today's street plan as the whole area has been redeveloped as streets have disappeared. You have to scroll down to London Bridge - 3D maps of every Underground station – HIJKLM

Out of interest I did come across this 1965 artwork poster in the LT Museum https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/artwork/item/2006-11004

 

[James Spooner]

Whilst going down this rabbit warren one of the underground drawings that most fascinated me was the one of Camden junction on the northern line. A friend, who used to be in charge of the underground permanent way, said that each tunnel was fitted with signs to remind track workers which tunnel they were in. The drawing is in this link:

Underground under Camden

Harry Wood's website. Blog, map examples, and assorted other bits and bobs. The blog is probably more interesting than the rest of this site... and the blog isn't very interesting so what does that tell you?

harrywood.co.uk

Nigel

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Whilst going down this rabbit warren one of the underground drawings that most fascinated me was the one of Camden junction on the northern line. A friend, who used to be in charge of the underground permanent way, said that each tunnel was fitted with signs to remind track workers which tunnel they were in. The drawing is in this link:

Underground under Camden

Harry Wood's website. Blog, map examples, and assorted other bits and bobs. The blog is probably more interesting than the rest of this site... and the blog isn't very interesting so what does that tell you?

harrywood.co.uk

A final item for the Camden Junction rabbit warren - apologies Grahame .

A London Transport Museum Hidden Hangouts from December 2023 - The Secret Tunnels of Camden Junctions. They walk the line from Camden Town southwards to the junction.

And a 1924 poster by Charles W Baker. https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/posters/item/1983-4-1647

 

[grahame]

It's a long reach across the layout . . . . . . .

 

[Joe's Garage]

That's a rather impressive view Grahame. Very believable.
Thanks for sharing.
Julian

 

[bri.s]

It's a long reach across the layout . . . . . . .

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That is amazing modelling !

Brian

 

[Tim Watson]

Will you have Vic Oddens camera shop on the corner of the white building?

Tim

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Will you have Vic Oddens camera shop on the corner of the white building?

That's a name from the past.

Wasn't there also a City Camera Exchange or London Camera Exchange at London Bridge? Or was Vic Oddens the only one there?

 

[grahame]

I do have a small retail shop modelled on the corner, next to the dark smelly stairs down to Joiner Street, but it's not yet finished. It was a camera shop but became a coffee shop/cafe in later years before the building, Fielden House, was demolished. And yep, there was also a camera shop in London Bridge Walk (might have been where Vic Oddens moved to), near to the Richer Sounds HiFi shop which was in the |Guinness Book of records as the highest turnover shop by square foot area in the world.

 

[grahame]

I've done a little research about the camera shops. Apparently Vic Odden's camera shop was in London Bridge Walk Nos. 4-5 (next to Richer Sounds which he helped set up in 1978 Richer Sounds - Wikipedia). The shop on the corner of London Bridge Street in Fielden House was a 'camera and gift shop': The Camera And Gift Shop London Bridge Street 1960s | The Camera And Gift Shop London Bridge Street London 1960s Photo No 1

Anyway here's another pic of the layout that might be of interest.

 

[grahame]

No modelling done over the weekend but I popped out to the shed this evening just to check on things. And here's a pic for the sake of it, with a class 423 4VEP in blue/grey (the right way around for the platform) and a class 319 Thameslink unit in NSE livery;

 

[Kier Hardy]

Grahame, you can carry on as many times as you like for the sake of it. I never get tired of looking at this masterpiece.

 

[grahame]

A quick couple of snaps this morning which proves a painful reminder of just how much is to be done . . . . . . . . . Apart from the track laying, ballasting and wiring, also the roadways, with many roads needing surfacing and pavements laid, as well as a good clean. Luckily I do have a road sweeper hand-cart model.

 

[grahame]

And here's that scratch-built road sweeper's hand-cart (on a one pence coin) . . . .

 

[Tim Watson]

He’ll have his work cut out.

City layouts absorb detail like black hole.

Tim

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

City layouts absorb detail like black hole.

It's the everyday urban detail we see subconsciously which becomes conspicuous by its absence on a layout.

 

[Grahame Hedges]

City layouts absorb detail like black hole.

Tim

Yep. I've been collecting/making scene setting details for some while now and have quite a collection ready to add once I get the basic infrastructure completed. Things like street furniture (lampposts, traffic lights, seats/benches, waste bins, telecom junction boxes/cabinets, keep left bollards, etc), road metal work (manhole covers, drain grids, etc), vending machines, ticket machines, kiosks, game machines, air-con units, satellite dishes, traffic cones, barrows, trolleys, pushchairs, dustbins, wheelie bins, commercial dumpsters, skips, bus stop shelters and so on. I've still many to make like bus stops, heating flue terminals, . . . .

One thing I'm keen to include are the basic, mundane and ubiquitous items of everyday life rather than the unusual, exceptional and occasional, like houses on fire, weddings/funerals, car crashes and a plethora of vehicles with flashing lights (like fire engines, police cars and ambulances) which seems to be latest fad to depict on many layouts.