After several weeks and lots of help from RMwebber UAX6 I now finally have the Type A and Type B telephone exchange completed. For such relatively simple building there are some subtle details which are quite difficult to get right. The slight 'pagoda' look to the hip roof of the B and the little tiles on the quoins of the smaller Type A.

There a a few very interesting websites with lots of photographs of different exchanges and these have lots of photographs of similar buildings from all over the country. It was quite common to have a pair together like this where the  equipment outgrew the original building.

https://www.uax.me.uk/

http://www.aeolian-hall.myzen.co.uk/

I took more attempts than it should have taken to get a laser cutter drawing which I was happy with and now all I have to do is bed them into the layout.

A visit to the March model railway exhibition turned up a Morris van in GPO guise and again UAX6 helped with some additional background I added wing mirrors and painted the hub caps black. It is interesting that when you look online for pictures all the 'preserved' moggies have lots of shiny chrome which isn't original.

So now I have a load of work to do bedding them in, adding a bit of picket fencing and completing the ground texture in the goods yard.

David