As can be observed from the deafening silence, things haven't progressed as quickly as I'd hoped. I've done the usual trick of offering to help on numerous things, not thinking that all of them would be taken up. How wrong I was! Fortunately some of them are modelling related so I'll report back on those once I've sorted them out. Still I've been making some limited progress on the layout, so a quick update to show I'm still in the land of the living. I'm about half way through building the base
Finally started to cut metal for this challenge, well plastic if you want to be pedantic, and 1800 cuts to be precise.
I walked away from the Wigan show with various goodies from Exactoscale. So the few spare minutes over Christmas was spent cutting various chairs from sprues, fortunately I remembered on the third sprue that the keys were handed, 5 left and 5 right. So 1500 std chairs, 200 bridge chairs and 100 slide chairs later I have this to show for my efforts.
I really think that Exa
Many of the photo's published have come from various collections, a few of which are available for purchase. I've collected a few from The Transport Treasury and from the HMRS Photo collection. Both of whom have very graciously allowed me to publish a selection on this blog.
So as a reminder the map is shown below
Starting from the East side, where the later station is situated, first we come to the shed area alongside Station Street with the raised coaling stage. This photo is taken f
Over the years I've slowly collected bits of information about the Tewkesbury Quay Branch. Various articles and photo's from several sources. As part of the project I thought a bibliography might be of interest for the scholars amongst us. So with out further adieu and in no particular order:
LMS Engine Sheds - Volume 2 The Midland Railway, Chris Hawkins and George Reeve, Wild Swan Publications, ISBN: 0 906867 05 03 Three pages of photos and plans to the usual WSP quality that sparked off t
Hopefully I'll get the copyright issues sorted out soon then I can publish a couple of photo's to show what I'm trying to capture.
In the meantime I have the OS maps and the beginnings of a templot plan.
On this map the goods yard, mainline and station are off to the right. The shed is to the left of the malthouse on Station street. It was called station street as the old Birmingham and Gloucester Railway used to have a branch terminus here, it's the covered bit by Sun street.
The line
Well this it, in with both feet for the 2010 challenge!
As indicated by the title, the intention is to have reasonable stab at modelling Tewkesbury MPD in Scale7.
The background
It all started with picking up the Wild Swan book LMS Engine Sheds - Midland Division. There buried towards the rear were a couple of photo's of a small single road engine shed with five loco's stabled around it and one where an 8F was parked by the old station due to overcrowding. On top of this a line throu
