Just a few more photos of progress on the station buildings.
The roof will have to be removable to allow for track cleaning and dealing with derailments etc. Amongst other things I have added 10mm wide horizontal beams for the roof to sit on - not prototypical but necessary, I think, for the rigidity of the model.
There's a bit of a gap to fill in yet between the roof and the underlying superstructure.
I have tried to make the facilities at the st
I have laid out a full size plot of the station area.
The plain lines to the right of the sleepered track represent the alignment of the sea wall.
I have also started work on a station building based on heavily butchered Peco parts. This will largely sit under the overall roof.
The roof for the single storey bit will actually be flat. The peaked roof is for use elsewhere and is just holding the station walls together for the p
I have long been fascinated by colonial and other offshore railways like the Jersey Eastern and British-run companies in Latin America. This will be a small, experimental project, a bit of fun, to model something of the happy-go-lucky style of the more eccentric type, free from the attentions of the British Board of Trade and its successors.
You have to imagine a pier with trains and trams. The train part will be loosely based on the trackplan of Shrewsbury Abbey station, formerly pa
