Can I presume from the lower level you will also be modelling the road that passes the coal shutes and paralleles the branch? If so that should give the layout an added dimension as well as extra depth. It is something I have been considering when Mk.III Greenfield commences...

Can I presume from the lower level you will also be modelling the road that passes the coal shutes and paralleles the branch? If so that should give the layout an added dimension as well as extra depth. It is something I have been considering when Mk.III Greenfield commences...

 

Larry,

Yes. I'm including the road along the front of the station area as it sweeps down from by the station masters house, past the goods shed and round past the drops. It then gets quite close to the railway with a high stone retaining wall/butress at the nearest point. Also the river tame at a lower level still comes in one a sharp bend and then off again at that location. As you say, this will hopefully give some width and depth and help put the railway in it's proper setting. The lowest part of the road is a scale 20 feet below the railway and the river 25 feet. (I got these elevations from a plan which I seem to have lost since.)

I think I've mentioned before that I'm disguising the exit into the fiddle yard by moving a cottage group and back lane up and over the railway from Dobcross - as shown in your wonderful Delph book.

Regards,

Dave.

Corgi and EFE produce suitable North Western Road Car double deck buses for the routes 13 & 14 that pass Delph Station, but you will be struggling for an Oldham Corporation bus. There is a Manchester Crossley DD42 but its not appropriate.

Your layout is going to look the bees knees particularly in P4 as well.

I wonder what your reaction will be to the news that I've just sent off a CAD drawing for the LNWR D333 suburban brake third. Always promised myself one.

Larry

Corgi and EFE produce suitable North Western Road Car double deck buses for the routes 13 & 14 that pass Delph Station, but you will be struggling for an Oldham Corporation bus. There is a Manchester Crossley DD42 but its not appropriate.

 

Your layout is going to look the bees knees particularly in P4 as well.

 

I wonder what your reaction will be to the news that I've just sent off a CAD drawing for the LNWR D333 suburban brake third. Always promised myself one.

 

Larry

Larry,

Good choice of prototype; I think they were fairly common in our area in the 1950's. If you recall, I built one from a kit but had to hack the brake compartment end about to get two larger windows. I'll pop a couple of photos up separately (don't know how to add them to a reply/comment!)

Dave.