SouthernBlue80s Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/93029-boxchester-complete/ (The above is an update link with pictures) I also wrote a small story about the place...to set the scene in my mind. Rochester goods yard was inspiration. Although it looks nothing like it Boxchester goods sidings and stabling point A southern region yard, depicted in 1982. Despite being a shadow of its former self when the line that went all the way down to the harbour closed in 1976, it still sees a bit of activity. Classes 09,33 and 73 are the usual visitors. Occasionally a class 47 makes an appearance. Various mixed goods a little parcel traffic and some permanent way trains use the yard The stabling/fuel point closed in 1996 post nationalisation but the yard, often with a track tamper or few permanent way wagons continued up to 2000. The whole area became totally derelict and was turned into a housing estate in 2004. Various brown paper envelopes changed hands and quite pleasant overpriced housing of middling construction quality now occupies the site. A few of the permanent way team work for Network rail and remember the yard well. Many of the drivers have passed away but the odd one or two are still to be found in a cab of a 66. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyboy Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 I like your fictional but believable history behind the layout/yard. Sadly, getting redeveloped into modern housing estates or supermarkets is what normally happens to these small goods yards when they fall out of use. The photos really do look like a old disused railway yard on the brink of closure, so you have captivated the atmosphere very well. Sam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Layout looks great, and a very in depth back story David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Like the thread...........so far............. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted November 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2013 Looks very good to me! One suggestion though, may be worth adding a fence (concrete panels) or hedge or combination along the back in front of the backscene. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinklein Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 looks great, for a first attempt! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Looks very good to me! One suggestion though, may be worth adding a fence (concrete panels) or hedge or combination along the back in front of the backscene. Totaly agree. I need to blend the foreground into the back scene more, which I will do. A new back scene is on its way. Because I messed up the first attempt. Looks OK in the pictures but not so good in reality. It is not finished yet, as I have just begun to put the detail into the area closest to the camera and have further detail to get stuck into. Thanks for the comments everyone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted November 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2013 Now that'something a bit different, and looks good too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 A few more pictures, pics are bit blury as on a camera phone at night time. But it gives you a feel for the way it is heading As I say no where near finished. I am trying scratch build a goods shed!!! A new better backscene is coming Hedges and SR concreate fencing to get the layout to blend into the scene Also the 33 needs weathering. Once I get it to the next stage I will post a few more pics. Was going to convert the Bachmann 08021 into an 09 but now having second thoughts as I think it might be a bit beyond me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Like the thread...........so far............. Hi David I will pop over to your threads now and take a look - as I always enjoy seeing your progress I would have love to have had the room to model something exact like you are. But I have very limited space - so something made up it was Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 OK I have changed the back scene and tweaked a few things. The backscene allready looks better, even with out blending it in fully to the foreground. I have longer dry static grass to go on, hedges to blend it into the backscene and also a scalescenes building I want on it. And all sorts of detail I want to add. So once that is complete I will concentrated on the stock. A few more pics showing the current state of play. The overall layout and a few areas which I have begun to detail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-b Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Looks good to me, well done. Hope to see more pictures soon. Matt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc435 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Very nice, a bit of blending between the backscene and the baseboard will ease the transition between them. Lets see some more photo's soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 Thanks guys. It is nice to get encouragement...seeing as it is my first attempt at this. Sorry also about the bad spelling or letter missing as I am dyslexic I guess I model BR blue because it is what I grew up with. I was born in the mid 60s. Got into spotting and locos late 70s and had lost interested early 90s around about nationalisation time. So the 80s holds alot of majic memories for me as a teenager/young man. The last decade of having a large scale railway with the variety of british buit traction, the depots all serving the tail end of industrial britain. I guess some find it dull, the sea of blue, but for some like me it holds good memories Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium HillsideDepot Posted December 4, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 4, 2013 Really liking this, interesting track layout, great background story, and very nicely modelled. This certainly proves that "less is more" where track work is concerned, the sense of space is very good. I'm a few years younger than you, but the 70s and 80s is very much "my" era too. Yes it was a sea of blue, and many places were rundown and decrepit, but it had so much more character than the multi-coloured, (allegedly) super-efficient present day railway, but perhaps you had to have been there to appreciate it! Forgive me if I've missed it, but what size is Boxchester? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 Thanks Adrian Size is 30cm deep by 240cm long. I have never weatherd stock before - so that is the next daunting task Celticwardog kindly gave me his way of doing it. So I am going to copy that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Hi all........... I will call this Stage 5 Hedges are missing. As they are too bright and I am toning them down to fit in with the muted colours of this layout. So ignore the hedges in the shots I am not happy with the way the rail,built buffer stops fit. So I will re-visit them. I also have a dissued engine shed to go on. I started scratch building. But have deceided to built a scale scenes one. I start weathering the 33 tomorrow Stage 5 Not too happy with the brown mud in the forground here. It looks a touch clumsy - so I will re visit that too I have tried to show some of detail I am starting to get into it. I await Dapol´s release of their rail blue 73 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-b Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Really impressed, looks great. Is the platform for parcels only, or people too? I know you say your modelling it on southern region but (to me personally) it does have a Scottish feel to it, a rake of OTA wagons, a pile of logs and a digger/crane to load them would set it off great. Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing your stock. Matt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Bufferstops............ ragstonemodels Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Thanks Matt My idea behind the platform is that is long disused for passengers and sees light parcels traffic. Although I have the white and red buffer stops, a southern ground signal, the southern concreate feel to the platform edging and a southern plate layers hut....... I must admit you are right. More scottish in way. Perhaps I need to buy a 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Bufferstops............ ragstonemodels Thanks David...looks like I will be spending some money Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 First weathered loco I have not got an airbrush So washes paint and powders. The camera shows up a few bits I am not 100% keen on. But I pretty happy with it as a first effort [/url] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted December 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2013 Looks good. I've changed the steps on mine to the PH Designs etched steps, which improves the appearance of the bogies no end! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 PH Designs .................talking of whom, take a look at their buffer etches, slightly different to Ragstone, which I placed a link to in post..# 19. although,you have to source your rail. They have an article build in MR.mag. this month, (Jan.14. no 191). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Fantastic layout; really captures the look of a run-down part of the Southern Region in the 1980s. I especially like the retaining wall, tunnel area and the platform edging. Some nice weathering on the 33 too. Being a particular fan of SR passenger trains, I'd definitely have to lay some third rail into that platform and have a scruffy, overworked 2-EPB running in there! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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