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Wheal Elizabeth gains a bridge

ullypug

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The ongoing addition of a running line continues. Here you can see the new bridge with a bubble car where the new platform will be on the viewing side.

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A shot without the bubble car and the addition of a background blocker. No photoshop here! The bridge was made from cut and shut sections of the existing retaining wall, so the colours match the original bridge exactly. I didn't fancy trying to replicate the stonework from fresh.

 

The change in levels from the original to new bridge is unfortunate, but I didn't want to destroy the original. I'm debating what to put in the foreground between the two. One of Kernow's Type 4 stone LSWR signal boxes would fit but would be a bit over the top and would have no realistic reason to be there.

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At the other end of the layout, I'm planning to relocate the original clay slurry loading point and add a couple of tanks as scenic blockers. Both lines behind will extend onto the fiddle yard meaning we can load a rake of tanks, rather than a couple in the original location which will be used as a coal siding/loading bank and occasional stabling point for the works shunter.

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One of the bubble car just to prove it's green!

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Mickey

I cant think of a "prototype" but the change in angles of the bridges looks very appropriate to my eyes :)

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sparky

That works out really well Andrew, I like the way the new bridge blends in with the old. As for the change of levels I find that a really interesting feature. I'm not sure if you need anythng between the two because it has a nice open feeling as it is ?

 

You were quick off the mark posting a photo of the bubble in situ. as it was only yesterday that I asked, must say she really looks at home emerging from under the bridge in the first photo.

 

The other changes you have in mind should work out well and I look forward to seeing it all come together.

 

Geoff

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