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10. Some photographs after ballasting all week.


C126

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Weary of paint and modelling clay, as the coal/minerals yard starts to look presentable, I thought I would try posing some stock.  Herewith my efforts.  Sorry about the backgrounds.

 

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A 71 pretending to be a 74 pops into the minerals siding with a special delivery of tar.

 

 

 

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Said tar wagon is taken off by the yard shunter, releasing the 71.  Now we return to Speedlink air-braked services...

 

 

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The aggregates merchant sets about filling and emptying wagons.

 

 

 

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The 'old school' Lima 33 waits to take away the agricultural hoppers and tanks (grain and flour).

 

 

 

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73 113 shunts an empty VIX, preparing to send it over the seas to exotic Eastern lands.  Please try and ignore the garden tools...

 

 

 

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73 111 shunts a delivery of minerals.

 

 

 

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The yard shunter brings the day's stock into the Departure Road, in front of the mineral yard.

 

 

 

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An overall view of the layout so far.  The nearest 'rust' needs toning down, which I should have done before taking the photographs, but I wanted a break from the artist's smock and palette.  Now time for dinner, and some glasses of Cotes du Rhone!

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  • RMweb Gold

In case you haven't spotted them there are photos of aggregate depots in Newhaven in this thread, that you may find interesting. They are both fairly small rail-served depots, with a mix of dredged shingle aggregates in both and quarried stone in the northern, Day's Aggregates one. The new East Quay depot has some different wedge shaped bin dividers.

 

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  • RMweb Gold

Please accept my apologies for taking so long to reply.  Clearly, I have something wrong with my 'settings' and 'Notifications', as I was not informed of your kind comment.  It was the Newhaven traffic (and seeing writings of Eastbourne's Crumbles shingle extraction many years ago) of which I was thinking, when building the aggregates yard.  I did not know the modern Newhaven depots held quarried stone as well.  I admit I avoided their designs as being 'too new', rather than the declining 1970's aesthetic I am after.  However, I should use them as the basis for the minerals' colours if nothing else: my multi-cloured 'shingle' is a little too red, compared to my childhood memories of Sussex beaches sprinkled with orange pebbles.  Something to re-do later.  Many thanks again for all your contributions.

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