This blog records the development of diorama’s of Northall a fictional neighbourhood in a large industrial city in England.

The time setting is in the late 1950’s. The switching point to the modern society with live in now.

The diorama’s will all have a relation to British Railway practice in Northall .

All diorama's will be build in APA boxes as a black box.

The idea of building Northall came when I build Bridge Street. Unfortunately not build in a APA box and the victim of the clearance program of the Northall Governance.

Urban Scene is the first diorama build in this way, but not yet finished completely.

To build the diorama's I developed my own design rules using information from different sources in the modelling world. I like to look out of the box.

Here is a little Northall history:

From 1850 on , sleepy, rural Northall has been enveloped by the expanding metropolis. Railway and canal construction brought further expansion.

Growth continued until the Second World War, by which time Northall was completely built up.

Older industries all closed in the 1950's and 1960's.

In 1954 Northall had three distinct areas. In the north were houses from the 1930’s and factories. Immediately south of the railway were streets of terraces dating from c. 1870-1920. Farther south lay the old town, with the dock area.

The railway line is situated on 29.921 feet above the surrounding streets.