Love Lane is an exhibition layout built by a team of modellers to Scale 7 standards, and is currently being expanded and re-worked to improve it's operational capabilities further.
Fantastic work, I think I've only seen this layout once at exhibition, would love to see it again! Can anyone who's worked on the layout or in the know tell me what you've used on the Ex Great Eastern 50ft stock for the corridor connectors please? I know the D&S kit does come with some but I am keen to get some flexible or equivalent which look like the brass equivalent? Thanks Tom
This is so like the Fairlop Loop before LT got hold of it. The staion is just like Newbury Park. Everything: buildings, bridges and all are just right.
Roderic Thank you. The station is based on Chigwell as it was before the LT alterations. Chigwell was one of three stations built to this design. Grange Park was damaged by WW2 bombing and demolished and Newbury was, I believe , demolished to make way for the widening of the A12. LU kindly gave us permission to measure in some detail, and the station manager on the day could not have been more helpful. The layout is currently undergoing a revamp to make it double track all the way round and has been lengthened to extend the goods yard and give more shunting possibilities, and hopefully, more entertainment when it is again exhibited. John - one of the Love Lane team.
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Lovely modelling wish I had the skill and space for O gauge. Why so many close ups in the video? I would like to see some views of the whole thing including behind scenes how it’s technically put together how it’s controlled etc. Why does everyone have to have the terribly boring and repetitive copyright free music especially as you have sfx?
Brian, I'm just the curator really. The video was created by the Love Lane people for the Virtual Show at the end of October, and it features in the February Railway Modeller.
Hi Brian. This is the first video which the Love Lane team have made and produced, so the chaps involved were on a steep learning curve. I'm sure they thought what they have made would be ok, and no doubt they have learned some lessons to take forward if they make another video. Ian
@@ianallen2490 Thanks for the reply’s much appreciated I’m a retired GE driver. I did buy a couple of O gauge locos and coaches which are now confined to display cases as no room for a layout. Trying OO but nowhere near as happy with the small size. Like the shunting sequence reminds me of my early days at Kings Cross and working loose coupled freight. Also like the working signals something a lot of modellers seem to neglect.