I thought add another photo of the station building, this time with the canopy in place. The valance was an Exactoscale etch purchased many years ago. This photo is taken from the side of the non-viewing/operating side of the layout.
Although it has been quite some time since I have not posted anything, things have progressed. This winter I decided to build the signal box.
As my model of Hallatrow depicts the station before the footbridge was built and after the re-modelling, i.e. late 1909 - 1910, the type 7 box is required. As I don't have a plan of the box I did not fancy counting bricks but the is a plan of the Bishops Lydeard in the book on the West Somerset Line - "The Minehead Branch".
The plan was re-scaled
When Hallatrow was exhibited at the final of the 18.83 Challenge I did not have a station building, however Tim Venton of Clutton fame had previously made a model and has loaned to me ever since. So I thought it was about time I made a start on a model of my own.
The engineer for the Bristol & North Somerset Railway was William Clarke, who was the engineer to a number of local independent companies whose lines were to connect their local community to a main line. In a number of in
Craig,
Attached are some photos of the point work on Hallatrow plus my friends Roger original curved switch filing jig.
The idea of this jig was to file both switches at once - but it did not work. The revised version files one blade at a time.
A 9ft curved switch
This is the outside slip and half the crossing into the down lay by.
My model of Hallatrow was built as an entry in the Scalefour Society's 18.83 Layout Challenge.
Hallatrow was a station on the Great Western's Bristol & North Somerset (B&NS) branch which ran from Bristol North Somerset Junction to Frome through the North Somerset Coalfield. The line was originally built by the independent Bristol & North Somerset Railway Company (B&NS) which promoted the line to provide a better outlet for the collieries of the Somerset Coalfield. Its act
