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The Long Drag To Garsdale - Garsdale Signal Box pt1


Southern Fabricator

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At the start of this blog I posted some of the pictures of my version of the Midland type 4c signal box that took some time to construct. The first problem for me was to check and recheck the window height (as it didn’t look right) against the prototype pictures and a pic of ‘Signalman Owen’ standing in the signal box entrance. The building dimensions also gave me a length to width problem. I scaled my width at 55mm then after a few days of deliberation arrived at a length of 125mm less the access steps on the South East gable end.
The addition of the staff toilet ‘on suite’ (during the mid 90’s?) was not featured in pictures from earlier years so keeping my options open I may add it to the signal box or build the waiting room additions that were removed when the station was ‘preserved’.

 

Firstly cutting out the clear sheet, then using Evergreen strip and angle pieces I built up the window frames and doorway closest to the prototype sizes, as the styrene shapes would allow.
The pieces were pre fitted to the basic signal box, then put aside until the box detailing was completed. Then I took a crash course in acrylic painting from my friend Paul at the Greater Waikato Railway Modellers Club, and then jumped in feet first, or put my foot in it. (It was my first attempt at painting after all).

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