A little under the weather today, so not much progress. But I have started on the turntable bridge construction. Then I got sidetracked by the arrival of a copy of Jack Nelson's LNWR Portrayed which I bought off Amazon following an earlier recommendation for Coal Hole drawings.

Several original LNWR designs are shown in a short chapter. The smallest depicts shoveling coal straight from wagon into tender. Next is a simple platform, followed by a very simple combined coal stage and water tank, affording "some protection for the coalman". The next one up, which I have selected for Legge Lane, is a slightly larger design with several interesting external features. This is shown in Figure 7-4 with details in Figures 7-5 and 7-6. Figure 7-4 is a scale drawing of plan, side and end elevations and I have scanned this and printed off the side elevation to check for size on the layout. It might be a bit small for an LMS ten wheeler, but the next size up would be too large for the layout, so that choice has been made!

Here is Dobbin against the scale elevation of the proposed coal hole: