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Rob,

 

Further excellent progress but you will have to be extra careful not to lean on the weakened areas till you can get additional support in place. Once the full pit depth has been achieved and the bottom of the pits is in place, I presume you can support the underside of the pit bottoms to give a good area of support, leaving the turn-table area free for operation?

For track over the pits, will you be using functional bridge chairs glued direct to the board surface? I used this arrangement for the trak over the coal drops on Delph and it worked well using Plasticweld solvent, or similar. The joints seem strong enough for normal useage, but I wouldn't risk giving them a hard whack!

 

The pits on the four outside roads, alongside the shed, are a bit of a surprise; although it's no different to pits outside a straight road shed, I suppose.

 

Regarding the pits in the workshop area, how does the track reach these, as they are a right-angles to most of the other tracks? Some sort of kick-back from the extended pit road?

 

Cheers,

 

Dave.

Hi Dave,

 

Chris has produced around 100 etched sides and 60 bases for all the pits so I just need to glue them together and fit in the holes. Once fitted I intend to glue strengtheners under the pits similar to the one under roads 10 to 16. I will also position two at right angles to form the basis of a support for the turntable pit well.

 

The track for the pits will be fixed using functional chairs attached to 2mm x 4mm lengths of plasticard representing the longitundinal timber baulks.

 

There were originally two 30ft pits on sidings 1 & 2 alongside the shed but drawings and photos show these were lengthened to 60 ft with two similar pits added to sidings 3 & 4 in the mid 50's... so within the period of the model.

 

The Workshop was accessed by 20 ft loco turntables off an extension of the shed through road. By the 50's only two remained - on number 2 & 4 from the rear of the shed. That cuts down the number of turntables I need to make!!

 

What are you doing about the mill building?

 

Cheers,

 

 

Robin

Hi Dave,

 

Chris has produced around 100 etched sides and 60 bases for all the pits so I just need to glue them together and fit in the holes. Once fitted I intend to glue strengtheners under the pits similar to the one under roads 10 to 16. I will also position two at right angles to form the basis of a support for the turntable pit well.

 

The track for the pits will be fixed using functional chairs attached to 2mm x 4mm lengths of plasticard representing the longitundinal timber baulks.

 

There were originally two 30ft pits on sidings 1 & 2 alongside the shed but drawings and photos show these were lengthened to 60 ft with two similar pits added to sidings 3 & 4 in the mid 50's... so within the period of the model.

 

The Workshop was accessed by 20 ft loco turntables off an extension of the shed through road. By the 50's only two remained - on number 2 & 4 from the rear of the shed. That cuts down the number of turntables I need to make!!

 

What are you doing about the mill building?

 

Cheers,

 

 

Robin

 

Robin,

 

Nothing, yet. I'm waiting for the big lottery win, or sponsorship from Pete Waterman, or similar!

 

Dave.