Copley Hill is a shed I am fascinated by, and indeed is the subject of my external blog, found here:

COPLEY HILL

Over the years I've tried modelling Copley Hill in an extremely small space, as part of a film project I have been working on, known as The British Railway Series. The series is set around Leeds in the 1950s, and the focal point for the locomotive characters to meet is, typically, the shed.

The idea was to make the set as believeable as possible while making the most compromises for filming possible too. The first true incarnation of 56C I made was very much a pastiche: being new to set building and scenic work, I worked from a few photorgaphs and came up with this snow layout for filming:

As you can see, the shed is by no means a perfect representation, but it is meant to be just that, a representation. Due to space constraints a four road shed was made (and its proportions are wildly inaccurate), and the Copley Hill Carriage works in the background, while the correct shape, was wrong in both the material portrayed (red brick as opposed corrugated sheet) and length.

Only one side of the shed is meant to be seen on camera, so I only made the front portion (a proper depiction of 56C would show that it is a through shed with similar pointwork at either end).

With that in mind, early last year I dismantled the original set with the full intention of making something more believeable:

The re-design and new build of my little corner of 56C will be the feature of my next layout related post.

Until next time!