Enthusiast creates 45ft model replica of Liverpool’s Lime Street Station in his house

[editor]

Looks amazing!

Rail enthusiasts builds 45ft replica of Liverpool's Lime Street Station in his house - The London Economic

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Bet he'd give it all up for just one shag in his entire life.

 

[editor]

Bet he'd give it all up for just one shag in his entire life.

Cheap. Really cheap.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Cheap. Really cheap.

Every time.

 

[twentythreedom]

Is it part of a layout? And what gauge? Looks like N or something tiny. Good work though

 

[mauvais]

His space-consuming hobby fills the entire extension of the detached bungalow in the East coast seaside town of St Annes, near Blackpool., he shares with wife, Pauline.

Ooh, I'm from St. Annes. Except it's on the west coast, idiots.

 

[editor]

Is it part of a layout? And what gauge? Looks like N or something tiny. Good work though

Got to be at least 00 for that level of detail, no?

John has been crafting the stunning scale model for decades and it even includes station announcements, model trains, working signals and moving taxis and buses.

His space-consuming hobby fills the entire extension of the detached bungalow in the East coast seaside town of St Annes, near Blackpool., he shares with wife, Pauline.
The model, which shows the station in the 1940s, even boasts a sound system providing ambient background noise, train hooters and whistles and it also includes surrounding streets and nearby buildings, along with tiny figures of railway workers and passers-by.

The couple’s current home was specifically chosen because there was space to accommodate the model.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Not as good as the guy who is building New Street in P4...

P4NewStreet

 

[mauvais]

Check it out, he expanded his house by about three times for this: http://www3.fylde.gov.uk/online-app...5E194A2CA4BCF830D31B8/pdf/09_0746--305779.pdf

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Liverpool Lime Street is a great station

 

[editor]

Not as good as the guy who is building New Street in P4...

P4NewStreet

Why would you want to model one of the ugliest stations ever built?!

 

[twentythreedom]

Got to be at least 00 for that level of detail, no?

Dunno, the trains look like they've got painted on windows and are really small. Some it looks bigger scale tbh Might just be the pictures

Eta actually looking at it on a bigger screen maybe you're right

 

[bimble]

Beautiful. ~and he's constructed it using maps and photos from some 80 years ago too, doesn't look anything like that now round lime street station.

 

[editor]

I was such an emo when I was a kid, my layout had an abandoned branch line with rusty tracks and a derelict station.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Why would you want to model one of the ugliest stations ever built?!

 

[bimble]

I was such an emo when I was a kid, my layout had an abandoned branch line with rusty tracks and a derelict station.

Stop pretending that Emos were even invented back then, you were a bona fide goth train hobbyist.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I was such an emo when I was a kid, my layout had an abandoned branch line with rusty tracks and a derelict station.

And wastrel youths hoying bricks at trains from the footbridge?

 

[editor]

Stop pretending that Emos were even invented back then, you were a bona fide goth train hobbyist.

Even goth hadn't been invented then.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's true - I have the misfortune of using the awful building every day. Dreadful place, even with the rebuild

 

[Miss-Shelf]

It's true - I have the misfortune of using the awful building every day. Dreadful place, even with the rebuild

I love it and that's that
You don't have to use Victoria every day, mate

Anyway, I love going out on the train from lime Street through all the dank and imposing sandstone:. It's a very archaic experience

 

[editor]

You like Birmingham New Street as it was in the 90s?!

Birmingham New Street named as Britain’s worst railway station

Now Moor Street, That is a station:

The magnificent Edwardian grandeur of Birmingham Moor Street station - photo study of Great Western style main line station in Birmingham, England UK

 

[existentialist]

More information here: Lime Street Station - Layout topics

It's EM gauge - so not as strictly finescale as if he'd gone for P4. That makes it a 4mm/foot scale, so editor was spot on when he mentioned OO, but the quality (and gauge) of the trackwork in the photos is clearly beyond OO standards.

 

[editor]

More information here: Lime Street Station - Layout topics

It's EM gauge - so not as strictly finescale as if he'd gone for P4. That makes it a 4mm/foot scale, so editor was spot on when he mentioned OO, but the quality (and gauge) of the trackwork in the photos is clearly beyond OO standards.

He's some modeller!

 

[editor]

 

[Miss-Shelf]

You like Birmingham New Street as it was in the 90s?!

Birmingham New Street named as Britain’s worst railway station

Now Moor Street, That is a station:

The magnificent Edwardian grandeur of Birmingham Moor Street station - photo study of Great Western style main line station in Birmingham, England UK

I didn't like Birmingham new Street in the 90's and it's only marginally improved now
I do like the grandeur of moor street

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

More information here: Lime Street Station - Layout topics

It's EM gauge - so not as strictly finescale as if he'd gone for P4. That makes it a 4mm/foot scale, so editor was spot on when he mentioned OO, but the quality (and gauge) of the trackwork in the photos is clearly beyond OO standards.

I've never really understood EM. If you're going to build all the trackwork you may as well go the whole hog and do P4.

 

[editor]

I've never really understood EM. If you're going to build all the trackwork you may as well go the whole hog and do P4.

FIGHT! EM Gauge - Less hassle than P4? - Modelling Questions, Help and Tips

And here's what's available:

4mm scales.
HO Gauge
3.5mm to 1ft, 1:87 scale
16.5mm gauge (inside track width)
This is the major gauge used outside the UK. At 3.5mm to 1ft, the track gauge at 16.5mm is virtually exact to scale for the standard gauge. When using this gauge it must not be confused with 00 gauge, HO gauge is almost 15% smaller. One can run HO gauge rolling stock on 00 gauge layouts, the track gauges both being 16.5mm, but the difference in scale will immediately become very obvious.

00 Gauge
4mm to 1ft, 1:76 scale
16.5mm gauge (inside track width)
This is the most popular scale for British modellers and is probably the best supported in the industry with a wide range of ready-to-run models, kits and accessories.. However the track gauge is considered too narrow to be accurate by many. This makes this scale a bit of a compromise. Smaller track profiles make this incorrect scaling less noticeable, and increasing the sleeper spacings makes it even less noticeable.


EM Gauge
4mm to 1ft, 1:76 scale
18.2mm gauge (inside track width)
This scale is an attempt to make the 00 layout track gauge more realistic. At 18.2mm it still falls short of the ideal 18.83mm, but was felt by those involved to be near enough.


P4/S4 Gauge
4mm to 1ft, 1:76 scale
18.83mm gauge (inside track width)
As EM is still slightly under scale, P4 was established. Locomotive and rolling stock kits are available to fit this gauge.

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[Crispy]

editor beesonthewhatnow

You must go to miniatur wunderland tomorrow, just in case you die on Saturday.

 

[editor]

editor beesonthewhatnow

You must go to miniatur wunderland tomorrow, just in case you die on Saturday.

Or this weekend: London Model Engineering Exhibition - The South's Major Showcase of Modelling.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

editor beesonthewhatnow

You must go to miniatur wunderland tomorrow, just in case you die on Saturday.

Nah, Scaleforum is where it's at for truely obsessive/incredible model railways.