Major Road Delays and Train Cancellations Expected Part 1

Entry posted by Ark Royal December 15, 2013

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With work on wiring the layout now complete until the installation of the signal servo motors,Mike a I can turn our attention can turn to something that will be seen by the General public apart from the trackwork..

For Mike this will probably been the progression of his fantastic work on the Station Canopies and I hope to report his progress on this as it happens.

For Myself I am employed on the Road Bridge Rebuild.

Eridge Station from platform level

Erisge Station from A21

A quick bit of history, The station was originally down at platform level and presumably the road bridge existed at some point in Eridge history. When the station was moved to its present day location straddling the tracks, the old road bridge was incorporated into this design. However the new part of the bridge was raised and the old part left unchanged. From either side at track level this fact is not apparent and only studying photos has this been highlighted.

The aforementioned step

This has throughout the design stage of the model proved to be a bit of a nightmare as no detailed plans are available and the step is in the darkest depths of the bridge where it is hard to determine its exact position. It is however clear that the step needs to be incorporated as this will have an impact on the height of the footbridge that butts up against the station/road bridge structure and indeed the gradient of the steps from the footbridge to the platform.

This fact has greatly influenced the approach to this build. So my intention is to build the known factors first and hopefully use them to determine the position (if not totally precise) of the step and incorporate that. Some debate was made at club level to the amount of under bridge detail needed. I have concluded however that " if it exists, it exist to be modeled and therefore i will attempt to faithfully recreate it in its entirety (famous last words!). In my belief from previous photos taken of the layout this view will show a lot of details and will enhance the photo 10 fold.

The Southern End of the Road Bridge

The LH side of the Bridge giving entry to Up Bay Platform

The Centre of the Bridge giving entry to up and down main lines

The RH side of the Bridge giving entry to the Down Bay Platform

The Model

This is built using Slaters brick Plastikard and varying thicknesses of plain plastikard.

All thats left to do on this part of the model is to add the capping stones on top of the wall (these will be 3D printed) these will be added on final build of the project prior to painting and weathering.Two rows of slate capping ineed to be added to the lower part of the recesses, i may attempt to make these from extremely fine plastikard.

The model acrow props have proved very useful for determining the height on the layout :good:

The rear of this wall has been built to the same level as the front , this will need building up to the road form and will hide the platform that it sits on.

More Modelling Needed :stinker:

More Progress (17/12/2013)

The Pillars for the Southern End of the Road Bridge have been made. I need a visit to the club room to assess the exact location of these with the track plan and photos

Meanwhile I-Beam Busy (sorry couldn't help myself).

Busy making the beams for the underside of the bridge, cost saving measures

The curved I beams, using a piece of copper pipe to form the curved plastikard

The foremost beam is the one for the front on the platform side of the bridge , these need rivet detail adding and cutting to length as the pillars do not run parallel to the bridge.

After the height transition these beams are just plain I-beams and there are 9 of them to build

I found it easier to build them as a "T" then cut the web on them before preceeding to an "I", thus concentrating on them being upright rather than upright and the correct distance for the web

The other web can then be cut to the required distance when the glue is cured :smoke:

More Progress On Station Road Bridge (16/03/2014)

After a lengthy delay I am pleased to announce some progress on the road bridge build. Part of the delay was determining the height of the station building above the tracks. The only known measurements were those taken from the footbridge. These were used to determine the floor level of the station by means of a 3D CAD Drawing.

Once this was produced i got slightly side tracked in producing this, however this will feature in another topic but thought it worthy of a mention as it will be seen a few times featured in pictures posted on this thread

OK Back to this topic.

The pillars in various states of completion.

Many may notice that the pillar ends in previous posts have had to be extended. This was due to a slight error on my part, assuming the pillars sat on the gravel bed on the layout... actually they sat on the wood structure and so had to be extended.

Just when you think you are making progress another unknown comes to light. This time via Rod ( of this parish - 10800) !! in the form of Retaining Walls. These are obviously now overgrown with vegetation or in the case of the one on the platform side removed.

Fortunately not too much rework is needed to incorporate these into OUR model :paint: