So here are a few pics of the Goulburn side of the layout and a look at the work involved to fix and finish it.

First pic is starting at the southern point of Goulburn station.  We have the sidings servicing the fuel depots, the position of the main south signal box directly opposite. The rail bridge crossing over park road.
The second continues from the rail bridge to the start of Goulburn station and north yards. The large white patches are the start of the platforms from the Albury end of the station. platforms 1 and 2 either side of the main and 3 facing the point work of the north yard.

Now on the Sydney end of the platforms. The main platforms end and platform No1 gives way to the Goulburn goods shed and sidings. As the lines converge back around the platforms it gives way for Goulburn north yard to fully expand. The north yard having the carriage sidings, goods loops, dead end sidings and the line works sidings. All this is just the first section the joint between this board and the next is the widest point of the layout  covering 20 tracks across!

On the second section the yard continues, then from here you can see north yard as it condenses back onto the main and to blackshaw road leval crossing. the three track consisting of the north, south bound main lines and the Crookwell branch line. The Crookwell branch leaving from the end of the Goulburn goods station line.

The next Two sections of the layout are the bridge, tunnel and the loco facility for Argyle.
These two pair up with the Argyle section of the layout (Argyle sadly unable to be photographed) to match Goulburn in length.

With a return on either side of the layout. (unfortunately the other one was inaccessible to photograph as well) So when set up one side of the layout covers the north section of Gouburn to run through the scenery around to the other side and into Argyle. Continuing through argyle and its loco depot back around to Goulburn. With Goulburn being used as the marshaling yard for the layout.

So once set up the layout will need both platforms, station buildings, signal boxes, scenery and such all to be done on the Gouburn side of the layout. With the Argyle side mostly ready to go. Just needing a clean up and minor work to fix aging track and scenery.
I definitely have my work cut out for me.

Eventful walk to work this morning. 4807 4403 standing at platform 3 with an NOGF one of the ACT owned ex Aurora sleeping cars and PHG, would make for an interesting scene to model.

 

I apologies for the poor pictures  but I had to get to work on time.
Sadly it had gone by the time I finished.

Back to the models now .
I have been having a look at my attempt at GMS1. Quite a few faults but will leave it as is in favor of building a new one. This time making sure to blank out and modify the windows appropriately.  As well as going into much finer detail including roofing strips and separately applied vents in place of the molded powerline detail. 

The other things being worked on at the moment are my old Lima XPT set. Mounting KD's painting corridor connections, carriage ends and nose ends.
Adding some bracing to the underfloor detail of my Lima MFE, MLE, TAM's as inspired by the red and cream NCR carriages I picked up at the Liverpool expo this year.

So with the layout unable to be worked on or even moved yet, I will focus on the current locomotives, rolling stock and buildings I have that need to be work on. I will admit I am not a rivet counter far from it. So I hope no one gets offended seeing stray locos and stock not found on the main south. So far this would include my U boat set, 85 class, (when it arrives) 86 class and my VR based A class and S class streamlined steamer.  But I believe you should enjoy the hobby and have what you like personally.
 So here are some photos of the Goulburn loco fleet so far.

As well as all the fun to be had with the locos and other rolling stock, there is lots of work to do cleaning up and restoring some of the original buildings from Agryle. Some new buildings will be needed to complete the layout. Included in this will be the old Slone St flour mill at Blackshaw road crossing, the track side of the railway bowling club and part of the Baxter shoe factory. Will have my work cut out for me there. here are some of the original layout buildings.

So decided to make a blog to follow the work I will be doing on Re-building the Goulburn Model Railway Club's original layout Argyle.
Recently the members of Goulburn Railway club acquired an existing show layout. Originally for exhibitions, it then resulted in replacing the original 30 year old layout. The layout consists Goulburn yard and station form Mundy St bridge to the blackshaw Rd level crossing, then passing through the fictitious town of Argyle and back. The Argyle layout being in a mostly dismantled state since the move from the Workers Arena to the current location at the Goulburn Roundhouse. Due to the age, huge amount of work and expences involved in trying to restore Argyle, The club came to the decision to offer Argyle for sale and if no one was interested would have been scrapped by the end of the year. This was to make room for the newer layout to be kept up permanently and allow work on a smaller exhibition layout.
After being warned it would be a fools errand to try and restore Argyle I put my hand up to buy the layout, several trips with a car trailer and much exhaustion all main pieces of this layout now reside in storage in the shed. Construction of this layout is mostly hardwood, chipboard and plaster. As you can imagine since most pieces range  from 1m X 3m to 2m X 4m in length it weighs an absolute TON!.
So once room has been made to start setting it up my goal is to restore and repair Goulburns original railway layout. so not to lose this piece of local history. I promise i will post photos very soon.