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Stour Valley Dream - Progress on Station Building

Fen End Pit

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After many hours in TurboCAD I've finally made some physical progress on the main station building for Clare. There has been much counting of bricks and much studying of an April 1986 copy of Practical Model Railways which features some drawings of Lavenham by Jas Millham. Clare was a 1865 'medium' design but I have been able to incorporate what I've learnt in my building of the platform 2 waiting shelter and, even further ago, my station based on the GERS drawing of Takeley, an 1865 'small' design.

 

I've drawn the parts of the building in a single TurboCAD drawing with the base brick work on one layer and the raised quoins on a separate  layer. This makes the drawing show things in context but makes it easy to just copy the base and the quoin overlays into different cutting files for the laser cutter.

 

I managed to get almost all the parts on a single piece of 3mm MDF 500mm x 245mm from the Model Shop in London. As usual the Lasercut software got its estimate of cut time wildly out, estimating 24 minutes for a job which actually took nearer an hour! I think it can't cope with calculating hundreds of 1.1mm cuts.

 

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The little tabs and sockets which align the parts are hidden behind the quoins so should be invisible. They do ensure that all the parts fit together straight and square.

 

I got as far as a dry assembly to see how the parts go together, apart from one tab which was 1mm too big which could be cut down easily, it all fitted well.

 

This is the road side, there is a glass canopy over the middle section.

 

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The platform face has a brick built shelter in the centre section. The brick section is low and is topped with windows in the same way as the waiting shelter opposite.

 

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I tried the building in place and it looks pretty good.

 

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I'll let you know how it progresses.

 

David

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Dave Holt

Looks very impressive, as the basic structure. I'm sure the time spent in creating the Turbocad files has been more than offset by the speed of production and accuracy. Looking forward to seeing it develop into the finished article.

Dave.

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