Well, I got a bit diverted again this week. A friend was in looking at the layout and asking what I was going to do with the curved bits across the window. I had thought about just doing a curved embankment, but my friend suggested that with a bit of geographic bending I could have a go at the mouth of the Kelvin. Back in the later CR days there were shipyards capable of building sizeable ships served by lines from the CR and NB, but there were quays and moorings of a more modest size before them. I also had a prototype, further down the clyde at bowling the CR lines ran very close to the river and were on a viaduct close to the harbour.

Hmm, bit of a quart into a pint pot, but it might just work. Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of a basic mockup. River kelvin, rails on a bridge over it, leading to a lowish viaduct along a quayside, land rising along the banks of the kelvin valley, which was fairly wide before the retaining walls were built. Just messing about with ideas really.



From the other direction

So opinions ? Does it look daft as an idea or do you think I might just get away with it?

Oh , and I made a stand for the signals. No point in having plugin in signals unless you have a safe place to put them when they are unplugged. The 7mm blue thing next to them is a whole other story, as they say…..