Leslie Green station, made from Lego?!

Lego seems to be so much more useful than it was 40-50 years ago. Back then the height of Lego technology was the illuminated brick and the turntable. I can recall the first wheel sets coming out in the 1960s and the flexible vehicle coupling for connecting trailers to vehicles followed a year or two later by Lego trains. I also recall slimbricks coming out and then flatbricks but things seem to have moved on apace since the introduction of the technical sets in the late 1970s. I like the authentic looking LT brown and green brick colours, Lego was predominantly red and white when I was a lad with yellow then blue bricks.

I like what I see, the station is a good job.

I too remember Lego in the early 80's, frantically searching every Gamleys Toy Store for packs of individually coloured bricks, rather than packs of mixed coloured of the 4x2 stud 'housebricks'... I so wanted to see Green and Blue bricks then...

Looks like all things Lego have moved on!

Despite being in my 30's, I still love the stuff!

Did you build this with the planner thingy that you can get for your computer?

I can remember when Lego - or something very similar - was made from rubber rather than plastic. The blocks were about the same size as a "standard" Lego block but, because rubber cannot be moulded as accurately as plastic, there were only two pegs/holes in each block.

what was the system in the 30's/40's that had proper little fireclay bricks which you laid with a mixture of wallpaper glue using a miniature trowel? I can't remember the name but iv'e got one of the trowels.

That is fantastic! I love it! I had no idea you could make such stuff from Lego nowadays ;D Top work, thanks for sharing.

The name Minibrix rings a bell for what I had, which was slightly rubbery and slightly difficult to put together. Very similar to lego but each brick was brown. Also had sticklebricks...

Sticklebricks! Gawd, they were good!

Unifix too!

Thanks for "bumping". I'd have never seen the thread otherwise.

Well, for once I wasn't chided for bumping... ;D

But back on topic, the models are beautiful. They're so real.

Thanks for your kind words.

My C&SLR loco and padded cell can be see here:
districtdave.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Rail&action=display&thread=13264

Yes indeed they are. Very well spotted!

How do you fancy bumping the C&SLR train thread?

Yes, somebody at the beginning of the thread said I should model Chalk Farm. That would be rather interesting!

I've added a roof to the model now. Must take some more photos.....