Cypherus

Very nice layout and representation of the real article. I myself have been engaged in the process of building a 2mm model of the Immingham example for several weeks now, the thing that has stalled me has been 'complete' information on the mechanism itself though a lot can be deduced from what pictorial refrence material that is available, which is not much to be frank, a trip to the site a few months ago tape measure in hand resulted in some basic dimensions and I was surprised how much I recalled from my days working at the Depot to many years ago to bare thinking about, in those days you could actually get inside the thing and I just wish someone had the forsight at the time to take photographs of it as we expected it to be torn down fairly soon even in those days, Surprisingly it's still there and although being denied preservation status recently showing no signs of going anywhere soon. Looking at the pictures you have posted there are a lot of similarities in the mechanism layout and parts to the Immingham one and I would hazard a guess that this is another of the Henry Lees & Co designs so would be very interested in seeing any photographs you have on the subject. I am not intially going for a working example though the way it is being put together has this in mind for future upgrades being modular in construction and that is the end goal with a friend prepared to maching the top house winching gear once I can finalise a drawing in two variants for both 4mm and 2mm scales, but like all these projects they not only take a lot of time to get right but also require a lot of information when it can be obtained.