Lego Rail Central @LegoRailCentral
Explorations in Lego, with a focus on stations, trains, architecture, and sometimes maps Essex, UK Joined September 2014-
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And just like real London Underground trains, creating a low-slung chassis with enough wheel clearance was a challenge. Looks like all the strength for this one is going to be in the roof
Next, a Lego version of the classic 1967 London tube stock. Shame the airplane roofs don't have door spaces both sides, they fit so well. Perhaps Lego City is experimenting with staggered doorways. Don't look closely at the wraparound windows if you are squeamish!
Five headlights on the front can only mean one thing: London Underground 1938 Stock, Lego style
The London Underground O/P/Q/R stock family were some of the most attractive electric trains in the world. Unfortunately, concave curves are hard to do nicely with Lego. I tried convex slopes instead. It's a bit dumpy but it captures the 1930s ultra modern look.
Crazy prices for new parts on Lego PaB: 3x3 tile price 17 pence for old parts and 94 pence for new parts. Hard to argue that Lego is neither price gouging nor rationing.
Tonight at the local Lego club we built a Star Ship Enterprise
Just to be clear, this is NOT an IP violation, but it's definitely not an original idea!
Just to be clear, this is NOT an IP violation, but it's definitely not an original idea!
Nice to see Samsung inspired by my work, I was the first to map London in concentric circles, way back in 2013. Not sure what the credits say, do Samsung shout me out? #circulartubemap
With my own Art Nouveau Botanical Gardens railway station, the Ideas-willing Botanical Garden greenhouse will complement it perfectly, but how many sets will I have to combine so that it's the same size as my station?!
Amazed and delighted that the Botanical Garden greenhouse made it through Lego ideas, it's a sophisticated and elegant design, so congratulations to the creator, but what is Lego going to do about all those long-deleted parts?
Every time Lego comes up with a new arch or curve piece I get a mad urge to create a new Underground train to make use of it. The latest 1x5 half arch is really nice, great shape, I just need it in dark red, dark brown, or dark grey
Finally, enough of the new Lego arch pieces delivered so that I can finish the tunnel roof!
Loosely inspired, Part 2. Much easier to get something recognisably inspired by Underground 1959/62 stock. Just waiting for Lego to release the parts I want in the colours I need!
Loosely-inspired, Part 1. I wanted to create a streamliner in the style of Underground 1935 stock, something very hard to do with Lego standard parts. This is what I ended up with, definitely more 1950s/Germanic than the original!
And this is why I wanted to glaze the arch pieces, it certainly gives the tube trains more character. A price worth paying for 'reworking' Lego parts?
AI generated Lego Art Nouveau railway station. The more you look the weirder it gets. There is just one rail, what might be trains are built into the station. A faceless minifigure stares blankly, oblivious to the surrounding spacewarped mayhem. This is more Magritte than Lego.
And then I just defeated the AI completely, couldn't cope, real design for reference
Then I tried AI generated Lego Art Nouveau Underground station platforms, I can't even begin to comprehend what is happening here
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@LegoRailCentral Ah, thanks for the clarification! (BTW, I do love those Art Nouveau windows on the corners!)
@LegoRailCentral Interesting idea for a trail transportation system. Just move the platform along the tracks!
Very cool use of the Icons Camaro fenders in a different scale!
The new Lego wheel arch is far too good to only use for cars (newelementary.com/2022/12/lego-i…) it is also a nice way to represent upsweep over the motor bogie that was a characteristic of Underground trains up to the early 1930s. Looking forward to it becoming available in dark red.
@LegoRailCentral Great design! And the great photography gives it such a realistic look!
Want this
Botanical Gardens station now joined by Botanical Gardens electrical substation. Unfortunately, construction delayed by Lego restricting availability of new 2022 parts
I thought this was about Lalbagh. 🙈
Botanical Gardens station now joined by Botanical Gardens electrical substation. Unfortunately, construction delayed by Lego restricting availability of new 2022 parts
It’s not the new normal, it is abnormal and I feel ashamed so many allow themselves humiliated. telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/0…
I love railways advertisement possibly too much
@TubeMapCentral I like that you are grouping interchange platforms into a single station with several names. Also the Arbatskaya label trick works splendidly. I would just increase the spacing of grey and light green line in the north to match grey and green lines south
A #transitdiagram old-school style of the never built metro in #Riga 🇱🇻 I adapted the style of an old map of it and turned it into a full network map. I added some connection icons and updated the station names. #HappyEaster Feedback appreciated. CC @TubeMapCentral ;-)
@petoushkoff @TubeMapCentral @MrMappy @chrissmere @Il_Gurevich Makes sense, only us mapmakers consider it an issue to be fixed :) If it was up to me we would design the map of a network first and then build the actual tracks 😎
@TubeMapCentral @MrMappy @chrissmere @Il_Gurevich @JugCerovic True... Haha now I can only see the head and not the routings anymore haha 👽
Again my #bern #switzerland🇨🇭 unofficial #transitdiagram 👍 Now updated: river, #marzilibahn, new icons, new legend, layout optimizations, corrections. This diagram shows the #trolleybus and #tram network run by @BERNMOBIL. #gurtenbahn is included too. Feedback welcome!
@TubeMapCentral Their "Our Routes" page has a more up to date one (but includes all the GTR family of routes) thameslinkrailway.com/destinations-a… thameslinkrailway.com/-/media/goahea…
@TubeMapCentral Fab thank you for the info! I’ll order later today
@TubeMapCentral Thanks for the shout-out in your Newsletter! I hope to meet you one day! :)
@TubeMapCentral I'm a-gonna say cartographic efficiency. Stations on the outer ring were spaced relatively far apart.
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