Old Brue Quay

[phil_sutters]

Started as a project for the anniversary year and as a way of displaying my 50 year-old S&DJR rolling stock, without having it shown up by the much more detailed r-t-r offerings now available, phase 1 is almost complete. This was to build a representation of the Wharf and some of the S&DJR fleet. It is far from finescale. Chris Handley's book, The Maritime Activities of the SDJR, has been the main source of reference material. It includes 2mm/1ft scale drawings of two of the fleet.

If I wanted to model the whole wharf complex I would need a room about 11 metres by 3 metres. So it is very much an impression, rather than a scale model.

You can see some photos of the progress so far at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4186-the-highbridge-wharf-project/ The scenery, ships and rolling stock were put on display at a talk on the Missions to Seafarers, with a temporary length of track tacked onto the back of the quayside. The ships need to have their crews boarded and the dockers need to be told they have a day's work waiting for them. I didn't have time, before the talk, to run out any mooring lines and the propellers and rudders need sticking under the blunt ends.

 

[Corbs]

Looks great, certainly captures the flavour of Highbridge.

[phil_sutters]

Looks great, certainly captures the flavour of Highbridge.

Thanks, Corbs! Perhaps I should find one of the well-known views online and link it, to show the real thing. Like this one http://coxresearcher.com/albums/burnham/highbridge%20wharf1.JPG

or this one

http://imageweb-cdn.magnoliasoft.net/nmm/supersize/g03677.jpg

[NHY 581]

Great work, Phil. As Corbs says, really captures the look of Highbridge Wharf. Chris Handley's book is a good read.

 

Spot on.

 

Rob.