Curlew

Leeman Road in York

Just a few more photos of progress on the station buildings. The roof will have to be removable to allow for track cleaning and dealing with derailments etc. Amongst other things I have added 10mm wide horizontal beams for the roof to sit on - not prototypical but necessary, I think, for the rigidity of the model. There's a bit of a gap to fill in yet between the roof and the underlying superstructure. I have tried to make the facilities at the station fairly basic, rather than a grand terminus. Work still to do on detailing the two external buildings though, which look very plain at the moment. The station will largely be open, despite the overall roof. The road side, shown below will allow lorries to draw up to the platform for loading and unloading parcels etc. Main passenger facilities will be in the single storey block on the right of the photo below.

Could be a container rather than a wagon .

Thanks. Adapting things is far more fun than just following instructions. That way, you end up with something unique and interesting, I hope!

I have laid out a full size plot of the station area. The plain lines to the right of the sleepered track represent the alignment of the sea wall. I have also started work on a station building based on heavily butchered Peco parts. This will largely sit under the overall roof. The roof for the single storey bit will actually be flat. The peaked roof is for use elsewhere and is just holding the station walls together for the photos. This photo shows a representation of the central arch of the ceremonial arch to be used as the scenic break in front of the fiddle yard. It looks huge but is actually slightly underscale compared to the design of the real thing. The road level will be slightly higher than in the photo, as I have to allow for the extra depth of the tramway rails buried in the roadway.

Definitely looks like Midland Railway architecture

I have long been fascinated by colonial and other offshore railways like the Jersey Eastern and British-run companies in Latin America. This will be a small, experimental project, a bit of fun, to model something of the happy-go-lucky style of the more eccentric type, free from the attentions of the British Board of Trade and its successors. You have to imagine a pier with trains and trams. The train part will be loosely based on the trackplan of Shrewsbury Abbey station, formerly part of the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway. The main difference is that the left-hand goods siding becomes a line to the dockside. I have added a tramway with a loop, which also leads to the docks, shown here on the plan below. Above the railway in this plan will be a sea wall. To the left bottom, the tramway and the railway combine for the short distance to the dockside, off-scene. To the right, both the tramway and the railway pass through a ceremonial arch into the fiddle yard, something like this... ...though the railway arch will have to be modified to allow trains to pass through. The tramway will pass through the central arch, along with a road. Before finalising the trackplan. I am building an overall roof for the station - necessary to shade passengers and trains from the intense sunshine and add a unique character to the scene. This will enable me to judge better how far apart the tracks should be, platform width etc. I am combining four Ratio station train shed roofs to make this. I am strengthening the structure by adding extra crossbeams along the full width of the structure. The next step on this roof is to add more crossbeams and detailed girders. I have also started work on fabricating a station building. I shall give a more detailed description of both in another blog entry, in due course.

Looks very much like the southern Lake District - maybe Grange over Sands area? The coaches look a bit like an LMS push-pull set. The loco seems to be push-pull fitted, I think.

No photo, I am afraid but saw a sign at some traffic lights on Wednesday... Motion operated traffic lights (Flashing does not work)

Has anyone mentioned these?... best of both worlds

Wasn't the bodywork the responsibility of Metro Cammell rather than Sentinel?

That's in case she gets stuck in a compartment with no access to a toilet - maybe? ;)

Would be so much easier to fit everything in if you tried it in N gauge. Sorry I had to mention it 👿

Aren't the tracks to Piccadilly signalled for bi-directional running?

If you are reproducing the Oxford Road track plan you are missing a crossover at the east end. Also I would recommend a rethink of the fiddle yard. The up and down sidings aren't connected in any way at the moment, so you may quickly end up with an imbalance of trains if any terminate and reverse in the station.

Eritrea is as quirky as it gets 😀

Nottingham Midland and Chester were similarly equipped with mid-platform crossovers. I suspect it had something to do with remarshalling trains?

Swapping of locomotives on through trains is possibly fairly logical to work out as with the exception of the NBR, all companies lines ended at Carlisle. A bigger challenge to work out might be the degree of remarshalling of the coaching stock. It was supposed to be a common feature in the good old days, with through coaches from anywhere to everywhere else. How you would even begin to work out what exactly happened at a busy and complicated junction like Carlisle boggles the mind somewhat. Presumably there are carriage diagrams for the period, but with 7 railway companies and a joint line to consider, you could spend a lifetime just working it all out.

Pretty sure I read somewhere that the different styles of stripes etc. on green diesels was so that staff could more readily identify each class - not different liveries applied at random.

The North Eastern Railway used crimson for carriages, so was effectively returning to their pregrouping colour.

I suspect it may have been a Provincial service. There is a photo in the 1991 Platform 5 loco/stock book of a 15 on this service (and on to Cambridge) in 1990.

Found this on the Internet man moons ago. May be useful. There appears to be a whole publication on the subject mentioned in the notes at the bottom.

To be prototypical, you will need spectacular derailments 😉 Found that image on a random Google search. The goods shed was red brick, confirmed on the Wikipedia page on Tuxford North.

The backdrop to Ventnor station might be an interesting challenge - see Disused Stations: Ventnor Station (disused-stations.org.uk)

Stretching the point somewhat, I believe some Sentinel railcars had one driving axle and more than 2 cylinders😉