Finchley Road Photos

A class 501 EMU built for Finchley Road

The completed Finchley Road and Frognall Station Building viewed from the rear, just awaiting a lick of paint and some weathering.

Window detailing.
All buildings and structures are made from plasticard, even down to the door and window detailing; no etched kits employed here, just a steady hand, time and patience!

Door detailing.
I think you will agree, the effort is worth it.

The finished track plans for Finchley Road. The track plan is a change from our normal out and back layouts, allowing us to operate in a very different way.

Tidy wiring in the control panels is essential, especially if you need to work out how it all works in 10 years time!

The Control Panel wiring looks (and is) complex, but is necessary to minimise operational problems during exhibitions. All locomotive routing combinations have already been thought through and the wiring provided accordingly.

The clean and concise Front Control Panel belies the complex wiring beneath.

Turnout assembly requires skillful precision (and a lot of supervision by the look of it too!). Trackwork starts to come together on one of the Finchley Road baseboard sections.

The platform waiting rooms and awnings are taking shape. The building is constructed from plasticard whilst the awnings are a mixture of brass and plasticard. The support brackets are from Scale Link and the valancing is from the Muswell Models range. The hanging lamps are built by cutting the pin off a drawing pin, drilling a hole in the centre of the resulting disc and inserting a lacemakers pin to represent the bulb and support conduit!