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steamfinale

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It's been a long cold dark winter since I last posted but here goes for anyone interested.......

 

The basic concept for this imaginary layout is the re-location of Culworth junction on the ex-GC to a more urban and more northerly location. Thus, locos and trains are those that might have rubbed shoulders at Woodford Halse or thereabouts but with the odd bit of modeller's licence.

 

That said, attached are a couple of pics showing newly installed signals at the "south" end of the layout where the lines supposedly to Banbury and Marylebone diverge. The larger gantry "controlling" access to the down main line and loops from the Banbury direction has been modified from one built for a previous layout. The smaller gantry (to the left) with three home starter signals "controls" the three up loops on the Marylebone side and has just been constructed from a cut-down Ratio Pratt truss gantry populated with Ratio LMS signals. All signals are non-working and I freely admit my modelling skills are not up to anything else! The B1 has charge of the York-Bournemouth (Southern stock) whilst the Patriot has no business being there but may be on a football supporters' special ....

 

The other picture shows the development of the small goods yard at the "north" end of the station where a bit of track realignment has allowed for the addition of coal staithes (balsa wood, recovered from a previous layout) and a protective fence made primarily from balsa.

 

Current work in progress is ballasting the main line(s) but it's slow going .... 

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Mikkel
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I like the colour scheme of those buildings, they really help set the period. You mentioned earlier that the goods depot may be a Pola kit. In that case I assume it's H0 but it works really well here. Think I'll have a look at other H0 structures, thanks for the inspiration.

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Kingzance
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Like Mikkel, I think the "washed out" detail of the low-relief buildings and the back-scene is a masterpiece. As for the popularity of pork sausages as opposed to bacon rolls in the freight area, no comment ;-)

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steamfinale

Thanks for the kind comments. Re the HO scale kit (Pola? Heljan? can't remember) check out "London Road" model railway on you-tube as the same kits are used as part of the back-drop.

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Ian Simpson
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I really like the Inglenook-style goods yard - it looks surprisingly spacious and uncramped for such a small corner. And the clever use of backscene sheets is very effective!  [Edit: for poor typing!]

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beast66606
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<nitpicking>

 

The chevron on the front of the distant arm should be black, not white

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steamfinale

Oops!! Well-spotted - clearly the work of the devil! I checked all of my signals and all other distant arms are correct (honest) so the offending arm will be re-painted forthwith.

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