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Beautiful work, Robin. The building looks just right. 

 

Kind regards,

 

Nick.

Not very realistic - you've got the loco number wrong!

Kidding - it looks very good. The ladders must have been quite a job without etched stiles(?).

Dave.

 

Great stuff Robin, Barrow Road really is starting to come together. 

 

We've had two wet days here so I am out of the garden and have been building more 16T minerals.

Looking good, and I’d not seen the skew bridge before, very nice indeed. You can’t beat a good skew bridge!

Dave,

 

Broke a few bits whilst drilling the holes on the nickel silver strip.

 

Robin

Lovely load of ground scatter to model. What do you think the two round topped post were - some sort of fire iron rest? Interesting that there appears to be a fire iron resting against the ladder on a lighting column?

Have fun.

Dave.

Dave,

 

I was wondering what they were and I'm sure you are correct with the fire-iron rest.  With the support brackets missing or broken it doesn't appear it got much use. This is supported by other photos in my possession.

 

Robin 

The ladder assembly looks brilliant, I suspect that the ladders were far more difficult than the building.

Excellent work.

 

David

David, thank you for your kind comments. I am in the process of upgrading the Bachmann ash plant as the lifting mechanism supplied is plastic and rather fragile. Brass replacement pending. The other ladders are overscale ie 1foot 6in gap between steps.