Popular Post kirtleypete Posted October 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2015 (edited) I have been working on a layout based on the Welshpool & Llanfair for a customer and parts of it are now finished enough to photograph. This is the Welshpool section which runs along a wall with the line climbing from right to left towards Llanfair, which has yet to be modelled. Although everything is very compressed hopefully it is still recognisable. The layout is 0 scale using Peco 16.5mm track. This is the left hand corner of the room where the line curves round past a single siding and begins to descend.The backscenes are by ID Backscenes and are superb. This is the same scene looking the other way. The period is loosely the early 1920's. The line begins to descend, following the wall, towards Seven Stars halt which was in Welshpool town beyond the present Raven Square station. The railway waiting shelter is the brown wooden building behind the fence backing onto Ballard's garage. Trains crossed the road here and then ran between buildings towards the famous crossing over Church Street. I have assumed that in the early 1920's the roads would not have been given a tarmac surface so I used fine Woodland Scenics light grey ballast. It was impossible to model the scene exactly as it should be, but all the important features are there. It still needs figures and vehicles to bring it to life. The wooden planks enclosing the track are where the line ran over a stream. My customer built the garage model, and made a very nice job of it. The buildings are all scratchbuilt models of the actual prototypes, as far as available information will allow. Sadly the half timbered cottages look more attractive on the side you can't see! Called Armada Cottages presumably they dated from 1588 but they have gone now. This is the level crossing over Church Street - there should be a man with a red flag standing guard as the train crosses. The red brick shops are just a flat picture on the backscene, as is the church. The house on the right is the vicarage; we searched everywhere for a picture of the real one but came up empty handed so this is another house from Welshpool. That loco needs a crew! The backscene looks less effective from this angle, but it does show the narrow gap between the two shops that the line passed through. The bakery on the right was actually built after the railway had opened, the pervious building on the site having been demolished. It has now also gone to make way for a main road but the shop on the left is still there. This is the view from further back showing the canal bridge and how the stream was made to pass under the canal. There is more work to do here, I was waiting for the water to dry. The house on the right is going to be covered up, it should be open countryside there. I hope I have managed to capture something of the atmosphere of Welshpool in the 1920's, and the W&L before it was cut back to the present terminus. I'll post more pictures next week following my next visit. Peter Edited October 9, 2015 by kirtleypete 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwold Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Whoever this is for is one of the luckiest model railway owners in this scale! Seeing this makes me feel like packing up...the standard is far beyond my abilities. Well done you! Ken Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted October 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2015 Lovely Peter, I take it this is a home layout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted October 10, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2015 Fabulous Peter, you've kept quiet about this one! Interested to see the extent of it, I've always fancied modelling the town section. Please can we see plan? Thanks very much, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Beautiful work - what a treat for a Saturday morning. Can I be greedy and ask for some more photos please? David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted October 10, 2015 Author Share Posted October 10, 2015 Thanks for the kind comments; it's built into a double garage, but that's all I'm going to say because it's not my layout. I will post more pictures as it progresses; i'll be doing more work on it this coming week, Peter 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kirtleypete Posted October 15, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2015 (edited) Here are some more pictures of the narrow gauge section, taken this morning. This is the narrow gauge engine shed and carriage shed at Welshpool, with the cattle loading ramp on the right. The only early picture I have shows the shed painted a light colour, probably cream, but in later years it was black which would look far less attractive. The ballast was still wet - when it is dry it will be dry brushed to give variation in the tone. The shed is all plastic, clad in 4mm scale Wills corrugated asbestos. Close to the shed was a small wooden coaling stage between the narrow gauge and a standard gauge siding. Beyond the brick wall should be the cattle market but useable pictures are proving elusive. The line crossed the canal on a girder bridge before crossing Church Street, but the distances have had to be greatly compressed. Church Street crossing - this would have been the wonderful view from upstairs in the clothes shop. Seven Stars halt was still in the town but on the model it is where the countryside begins. It was named after a pub that had to be demolished when the line was built. Peter Edited October 15, 2015 by kirtleypete 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted October 15, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2015 Good to see Kevin's kits in the proper setting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted October 19, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2015 Great work. Something very charming about a narrow gauge train running through the buildings. I visited Whelshpool awhile ago and tried to walk / locate the route, a lot has changed making it difficult in places. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Bathurst Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Superb modelling, the layout has a lovely charm about it. The locos and coaches who supplies those? Look forward to more photographs Scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 8, 2015 Author Share Posted November 8, 2015 I've no idea I'm afraid, they belong to my customer. I know they are built from currently available kits. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted November 8, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 8, 2015 The locos and coaches who supplies those? I expect they are Dorset Kits (Kevin Trim). Some references below but no web site http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=51842 http://fairlightworks.narrowplanet.co.uk/2008/10/the-slippery-slope-to-7mm-scale/ http://www.model-railway.org.uk/narrow-gauge/sump/WandL.htm Adrian Gray describes the coaches in Model Railway Journal issues 103 & 104 http://www.modelrailwayjournal.com/index.php?s=Adrian%20Gray&t=authors . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 8, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2015 Yep the stock is Kevin Trims Dorset Kits. http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/suppliers/40430-DorsetKits Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Bathurst Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Thank you guys. Does Dorset kits have an email address? I can see his number and address but that's it. Scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joppyuk1 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Thank you for the photos of the gorgeous street scene. I've been looking for inspiration for one side of my layout, and now I've found it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 8, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2015 (edited) Thank you guys. Does Dorset kits have an email address? I can see his number and address but that's it. Scott Click on the left hand one of the three icons under Dorset Kits wording and you'll get a captcha access to email. http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/suppliers/40430-DorsetKits If you have problems pm with what info you want and I'll get the info for you as Kevin is a friend. He checks his email a coupe of times a week so don't expect instant replies The range is very much a hobby so he doesn't want a website. GW version at the front and W&L at the back. Edited November 8, 2015 by PaulRhB 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 From what I've seen of them the kits are superb, highly recommended. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 9, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2015 Well Kevin is enjoying the pics of the layout too Peter, I sent him the link and it's got him wanting to get something built to run his on 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 That's nice to hear, thanks for doing that. I won't be back there until just before Christmas but I'll take some more pictures then. I'd like to see a set of the coaches in the original W&L livery on the layout, but that's not likely unfortunately. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted November 10, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 10, 2015 They are indeed, superb kits. I've built around 10 of the various wagon kits, but not had my hands on the locos or coaches. Yet... Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2015 I could easily arrange test running Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted November 10, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 10, 2015 I could easily arrange test running Dave We had Arthur Budd's loco running on Bridport a few years ago (see start of the Bridport Thread) Very nice it looked but it towered over my stock, and was even taller than K1. It WOULD fit in the shed and through the backscene, but only if we knocked the whistles off... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Young Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 (edited) Very nice layout!! Captured the prototype very nicely. Those Dorset kits look good too. Dave, if you're building one as a MVR loco, you could always re-site the whistles onto the cab front... Cheers, Andrew Edited April 14, 2016 by Andrew Young Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 I've been back to do some more work on Welshpool today so here are some more pictures. The area on the right isn't finished, and the cattle dock needs to be added beyond the goods transfer shed. The track in the foreground is the W&L station! The PVA was still wet on the grey area which is why it looks pale. The sheds were already built but I've added the overgrown bank in the foreground. Finally a couple of pictures of the 'other' station! I'll be going back in August to finish the rest of it, including the Llanfair terminus. Peter 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted February 25, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 25, 2016 Beautiful work Peter, I'll look forward to the next update Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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