Berry Wiggins Kingsnorth Refinery

[Burzka]

I'm very new to the modelling lark, I had Hornby and Bachmann stuff as a child, but I'd never really thought about seriously modelling until very recently. A while back I obtained a number of Berry Wiggins branded 14t tank wagons and had the idea of modelling at least part of the old Berry Wiggins refinery as it would have appeared c. the 1950s or 1960s, however I'm more than a little daunted at the prospect of trying to compress the scene into the 12' by 4' space I have available, part of me secretly wants to include -everything- and all the sketches I've made thus far are far too big. I'd also like a little assistance choosing appropriate off-the-shelf buildings and scenery as I'm quite quite unskilled at scratchbuilding. Rolling stock and locomotives are no problem as I have about 11 Berry Wiggins tankers and an industrial 0-4-0 saddletank fairly similar to the one actually used by the refinery.

I managed to find some photos of the refinery from the air as it appeared in about 1950, which might be some help.

[Mark Saunders]

Have a look at the 1970 Jon Pertwee Dr Who story "Inferno" which has some good shots of the plant and tank wagons!

 

Mark Saunders

[Burzka]

Have a look at the 1970 Jon Pertwee Dr Who story "Inferno" which has some good shots of the plant and tank wagons!

 

Mark Saunders

That's where I first saw the facility oddly enough, even my name's an obscure Doctor Who reference (100 points to anyone who guesses it without Google). I managed to find where most of the location shooting was done from the aerial pics.

[APOLLO]

Doctor Who ?   Berry Wiggins ?

 

Are the Tellurians now Tarurians ?

 

The plot thickens !!

 

Brit15

Edited October 1, 2017 by APOLLO

[bennyboy]

Perhaps you could just have the oil tanks painted on the backscene or have them portrayed in "half relief" with some of the sidings disappearing behind them into a hidden fiddle yard?

[Burzka]

Perhaps you could just have the oil tanks painted on the backscene or have them portrayed in "half relief" with some of the sidings disappearing behind them into a hidden fiddle yard?

I didn't think the oil tanks were so much of a problem, I was planning on having a few tanks with the rest on the backscene, the bigger one is compressing the track into a realistic length for a spare bedroom, currently playing around with AnyRail trying to make something that works for me. There may also be a few Whovian Easter eggs, like the fire engine, a few bored UNIT troops roaming around, and the odd primord lurking.

[APOLLO]

You may be interested in modelling the destination of some of these Berry wiggins tank wagons, the road tar plant at Whimsey near cinderford in the forest of dean. I don't think they had there own loco though, an ex GWR Pannier tank usually used. Info here with an interesting video clip.

 

http://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/berry-wiggins-whimsey-1949-1967/

 

 

Brit15

[Arthur]

 

They also had a plant at Weaste in Salford served by the Manchester Ship Canal railway. It closed sometime in the 1970s.

 

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