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Hi Andy thanks for the photo of the track renewal of the Up line - what date was that?

I already have 37688 ;-) plus 687 in Construction so might have 683 in plain 3tg or maybe even 684 "PNP".... decisions decisions!

Cheers Paul

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Hi Andy thanks for the photo of the track renewal of the Up line - what date was that?

I already have 37688 ;-) plus 687 in Construction so might have 683 in plain 3tg or maybe even 684 "PNP".... decisions decisions!

Cheers Paul

My vote is for Peak National Park. Sorry, no exact date for the track renewal.

Cheers, Andy

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Peak Forest Station revived.

The story so far - (1) :-

 

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The main building of Peak Forest is highly similar to the station building at Great Longstone on the now closed Peak Line. Excellent plans for Great Longstone ( although the published scale may be misleading!) are to be found in that wonderful book Through Limestone Hills by Bill Hudson. These plans were used as the blueprint for Peak Forest Revived.

 

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The site for the finished building. (Beware of building cardboard models. They risk becoming long term fixtures!)

 

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Photos of Peak Forest were used to inform the colouring of the Wills plastic sheets.

 

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Windows apertures carefully cut out using plans of Great Longstone.

 

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Window frames and windows attached to the back of the walls.

 

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My vote is for Peak National Park. Sorry, no exact date for the track renewal.

Cheers, Andy

Ah no worries it must have been sometime since July as that is when I last went up to Peak Forest for the day. Oh look some Buxton plaques, PNP plates just fallen out of my nameplate box lol!

 

Cheers Paul

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Peak Forest Station revived.

The story so far - Part 3: 'Back to the drawing board' :-

 

A wet November day, logs on the stove, and encouragement from Al: time to resume modelling. 

 

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Reviving Peak Forest Station in accord with Friends of the Peak Line

 

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A Shed for Peak Forest.

Although Peak Forest Station and the station down the line of Great Longstone shared a near identical architectural plan, their character was widely divergent.
The intended aristocratic passengers of Great Longstone ( It is the nearest station to the Duke of Devonshire's house at Chatsworth ) meant the station was finely detailed, and surrounded by the Tudor style buildings of Woodlands which acted as private waiting rooms for the nearby Thornbridge Hall.
In contrast the character of Peak Forest station was more mundane: from the start Peak Forest Station sported not posh private waiting halls but an add on shed.

Today Peak Forest's Shed has blossomed(?) into a kind of industrial bungalow which acts as driver and management offices and rest facilities for DB Schenker, and before that for EWS. Prior to the construction of this carbuncle the station was adjoined by a succession of wooden buildings which became in turn dilapidated after the closure of the station in 1967.

 

The backstory for Peak Forest Revived requires that the station remained open to passengers after 1967 so it is fair to assume that the much needed  refurbishment of the station and its accompanying structures would be undertaken with more respect for the architectural traditions of the Midland Railway, and the views of the Friends of The Peak Line who had campaigned so successfully to keep the line open.

So Peak Forest Revived still sports a shed to honour its humble history, but one slightly pimped along the lines of that other Midland heritage Line, the Settle and Carlisle.

New windows for PF Shed:-

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The new windows were based on a design used on the Midland style waiting room below,
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Progress on Peak Forest Station Shed so far:

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Seasonal self indulgence...

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Not recorded around Peak Forest, but a Janus was owned by ICI. It reminds me of Dovedale, the Thomas Hill Steelman based at Tunstead. Of course Judith Edge makes a fine brass model of the Steelman but despite plenty of encouragement from Michael Edge I still lack the confidence to launch into the black arts of soldering brass kits. One for the future.

 

The Golden Valley Janus pleasantly surprised me with its fine running, but is sorely in need of some bold weathering. Watch this space.

 

 

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Restore some photos to this thread.
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On 11/12/2017 at 20:41, newbryford said:

And the solitary (at the moment) HRA as lead wagon.....

 

Cheers,

Mick

 

Yep...

 

 

And it makes the rake both more interesting but still not too hard to model.

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Throwback Thursday...

...and as its been snowing up at Peak Forest

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To restore photos after Great Outage.
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