Garsdale Railway Workers Cottages: ‘Up on the roof’

Entry posted by Southern Fabricator August 17, 2017

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With the windows completed and the roof in place a ‘topping off’ ceremony has been held by yours truly by way of a brown ale or two before tackling the chimney stacks and painting them.
I have previously used balsa wood for each of the station waiting room chimneys with moderate success, but I found detailing the stonework awkward, as the wood was too soft to maintain any close definition.

Now however using a foamboard core and then overlaying it with clear styrene detailed pieces with the stone courses engraved seems for the moment to have provided me with a much better result. My main task is to match the existing stonework paint and fit the chimney pots to them. I had been looking to reproduce the terracotta and steel flue pipes that adorn the top of the four chimney stacks without resorting to use something commercially available.

The decision was to use suitable sections from flexible cotton buds, which was nearly scrapped because the PVA glue didn’t seem to want to adhere sufficiently to keep the pipes in place!
However I ended up using ordinary pins down the centre of each pipe that not only solved the adherence issue, but also added extra insurance against them being accidentally knocked off.

The final task was to add the timber barge boards and other details to the roofs and then attempt to weather the building somewhat, which maybe revisited when I have learned more about this skill.
As with the other buildings, the only thing now is details such as the guttering and down pipes and also the services pipe work to finish off.
As an overview of Garsdale Station building progress, I have posted a few pictures of their general orientation to each other using a temporary mock up.
The one issue with taking pictures of the building process is that that it shows up mistakes and omissions too readily. So I’ll try not to rush things along in future!

The remaining issue on ‘The Long Drag To Garsdale’ has been to glue the existing station waiting rooms’ roofs with the chimneys and other details before going through this whole building construction again for the railway workers stepped terrace houses on the down line to Carlisle approach to Garsdale Station.
This time however I’ll only post brief descriptions and pictures of their progress instead of repeating the whole process to you. After the railway cottages are completed, the Coal Road over bridge will be my next consideration before constructing the 2724mm Dandry Mire Viaduct.

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Posted August 17, 2017

Some very nice construction going on there. You`ve set yourself a high standard and that`s a great collection of buildings.Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

Great work.

Jim.