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Stour Valley Dream - Let terraforming commence!

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After an enjoyable trip to the Biggleswade show on Saturday I spent yesterday making a start on the basic land forms for my model of Clare station. I had saved a load of 1/2 inch polystyrene which had been used a packing material for some 'up-market' glass white boards we had taken delivery of at work. I hadn't thought the landscape around Clare was particularly hilly but was still surprised by how much polystyrene was required. Sometime ago I purchased a hot wire cutter and this was my first chance to give it a go. It has proved very useful for cutting up the sheets and making nice angled cuts on the edges though I think it would have been nicer to have one that had a longer cutting wire.

 

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I've started by trying to make the hill at the Cavendish end of the station where there is a cutting with the small over-bridge. The cutting was wide enough for a third line which was originally used for loading. The white painted panel on the bridge was for sighting the advanced starter signal.

 

 

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From the opposite direction you can see the end of the lay-by and the single line towards Marks Tey.

 

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On this side of the bridge is the home signal and I'm toying with the idea that this might be sighted 'on the wrong side' of the track to make sighting easier around the curve.

 

Going back to the station side there was a track down from the lane over the bridge down the hill which gave access to the now-removed siding. The siding was taken out in ~1955 and replaced by the simple coal siding. I'm guessing that in my time-scale it would still be easy to see where it had been.  All that is left now is a hump which appears to be in the right place for a loading dock. I don't have any photographic evidence though of whether there was originally any kind of edge (timber shoring?). The picture on disused stations http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/clare/clare(1950s)old4.jpg shows the raised flat area but no kind of edging.

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I've not yet stuck any of this down and I'm trying now to work out how the land forms the edge of the river but it is nice to see something other than just flat ply for a change.

 

David

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1 hour ago, RichardS said:

This is looking good. Can I ask what your source of polystyrene is please?

Packaging material from some office whiteboards, as per first paragraph..

David

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Oops, sorry, completely missed that. Thanks David.  :-)

 

But I'm not sure there was any need, Don B, for the exclamation mark. I do apologise if my inadequacy offended you so much.

Yes, punctuation is important and exclamation marks are powerful endings to sentences.

 

In fact these two responses are a good learning point for all who use social media such as this forum. Notice the same message conveyed in quite different ways. One polite, one disparaging.

One explained, the other tried to belittle with an assumed superiority. Even the opening word in the latter, 'sorry', is part of the subsequent expression of intolerence and despair at the incompetence I deigned to display.

 

It must be terrible for my betters to suffer those such as I.

 

My sincere apologies to David/Fen End Pit for going OT on this. I implore that any further comments be limited to matters regarding his model and the techniques he has shown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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