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'Midhurst' - a case for horsepower....


scanman

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I've been working regularly with my client on the 'Midhurst' model - mainly concentrating on track & point electrics
(not my strong point...) a couple of weeks ago we had a VERY frustrating day, when, no matter what we did, we could not
get a point to correctly polarise the crossing.

 

The second factor in this tale is the timesetting for the model. 1860... The only horsepower available was,
well, horsepower!

 

So as a little compensation for the 'wasted' hours, I made this

 

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from the 'Dart Castings' Governess Cart'. Happily the client loved it. Annoyingly we traced the issue to a faulty switch in the
point motor!

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Most interesting. I will be keen to see how this turns out - particularly the station building. The Bepton Road bridge was notoriously weak (it was strengthened when Petersfield trains started running into the old LBSCR station in the 20s)...essentially all it could handle was a single wagon or so. I did not realise it was a girder bridge - just assumed it was an arch (don't believe I have seen any pictures of it).

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Most interesting. I will be keen to see how this turns out - particularly the station building. The Bepton Road bridge was notoriously weak (it was strengthened when Petersfield trains started running into the old LBSCR station in the 20s)...essentially all it could handle was a single wagon or so. I did not realise it was a girder bridge - just assumed it was an arch (don't believe I have seen any pictures of it).

Hi Claude

 

My client had the station building made by another modeller (although I re-did the doors

& windows later and made the canopy). The model was constructed from a single 'artists

impression', the only view available! I modelled the bridge according to the information given to me by the client...

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