'CHARD Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Oooooh! Private gate for Stobs Castle, hey! I take it that served a footpath that wound through Birk Wood and Stobs Woods. Quite a distance, well a good kilometre, and across the Slitrig too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 I assume that's what it is. Here's a photo (from Disused Stations) showing the gated walkway leading to the woods on the Up side: Looking at old OS maps the track seems to run along the edge of the wood above the cutting, and then bears left to join the driveway leading to the castle. It's a fair old walk but I can't think of any purpose for the gate and walkway other than access to the castle. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 I assume that's what it is. Here's a photo (from Disused Stations) showing the gated walkway leading to the woods on the Up side: Looking at old OS maps the track seems to run along the edge of the wood above the cutting, and then bears left to join the driveway leading to the castle. It's a fair old walk but I can't think of any purpose for the gate and walkway other than access to the castle. Seems like a decent rationale to me. I need to retrace those steps now of course! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted January 1, 2019 Author Share Posted January 1, 2019 Footbridge just about done, etch primed and almost ready for paint. The railings are a little overscale but I'm not too unhappy with them. Unfortunately I have now realised that although the smoke deflectors are off-centre as per prototype I have skewed them the wrong way - the Up deflector should be closer to the staircase than the Down. Oops. Luckily they are only glued, not soldered. Stairs were made by glueing together lots of 0.8mm balsa strips. There are still a few rough bits but from normal N gauge viewing distances I think it will do. I have printed out some of the large "Cross the line by the bridge only" notices and still have to sort out a couple of lamps. Signalbox next... 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 A tiny bit more progress. Working from photos I used a 2D CAD program to create a simple line drawing of Stobs signal box, printed it onto self adhesive paper and then stuck it over a crude foamboard shell, just to see if I had got the size and proportions about right. I think it looks about OK, maybe 1mm narrow and 1mm tall but that is easy to sort out. I haven't tried using this technique for building drawings before, and I wish I had done it for the ticket office as the dimensions are slightly out and a 3D mockup would have picked up the error. Richard 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 Track plans are all very well but trying to model a railway carving through the landscape I was having trouble picturing whether the sightlines and scenic breaks would work. So... A model of a model, one inch to one foot, knocked together out of card, foamboard, balsa, some Polyfilla that was starting to go off, and a bit of Woodland Scenics material for trees. Comparing this to aerial photos on Canmore I need the trees at the front to extend down to the road (there is a photo on there showing them as young trees in 1945), but otherwise it's not a million miles out. Hidden sidings are fractionally underscale but give an idea of the general layout. I have put in a fictitious bridge at the right hand end as a scenic break, the other end is well hidden by trees. Richard 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Track plans are all very well but trying to model a railway carving through the landscape I was having trouble picturing whether the sightlines and scenic breaks would work. So... A model of a model, one inch to one foot, knocked together out of card, foamboard, balsa, some Polyfilla that was starting to go off, and a bit of Woodland Scenics material for trees. Comparing this to aerial photos on Canmore I need the trees at the front to extend down to the road (there is a photo on there showing them as young trees in 1945), but otherwise it's not a million miles out. Hidden sidings are fractionally underscale but give an idea of the general layout. I have put in a fictitious bridge at the right hand end as a scenic break, the other end is well hidden by trees. Richard Wow - that's gorgeous! I'd love to make something like that but I'm no model maker as my fingers are like Cumberland sausages. 12" to the foot I can just about cope with! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Not much progress on Stobs itself but I have another locomotive for it, and an unusual one at that: 64499 was one of three ex North British J35s allocated to Carlisle Canal in BR days. It was the last survivor of the trio, soldiering on until the end of October 1962. The model started out as a Poole Farish 4F which has acquired a new brass firebox and cab, flared tender tops and a few other bits and pieces. I wouldn't describe it as a scale model, but I'm happy enough with it, should be ideal for the Carlisle-Hawick goods. I have another 4F which may become a St Margarets J37, which were known to appear on the Waverley Route from time to time. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJCT Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 (edited) ... a St Margarets J37, which were known to appear on the Waverley Route from time to time. They certainly did - see http://www.railuk.info/gallery/notes/getimage.php?id=2514 According to the sleeve notes, that one also featured on that wonderful Argo Transacord LP "The Railway to Riccarton", on a Down goods at Steele Road. HTH. Alasdair Edited March 3, 2019 by AJCT Additional info 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Slow train to Hawick? It certainly would have been with a J37 up front. Hawick had a solitary J37 on its books for many years - 64539 - presumably it was there for some good reason. It waddled off to St Margarets at the end of 1959 for the last two years of its life. That is the one I will probably model. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted July 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2019 Bit late to the party here but some useful info/photos for you Richard. Chainage of curves running north to south was 24 chain radius onto the viaduct, 27 1/2 radius over the viaduct and through the platforms, transition from left hand to right hand curve, 27 1/2 radius onto 28 and then you're probably off model. I have a photo of Matt's gradient board in situ but with no identifying landmarks to pin an exact location down. I can't see it present in any of my archive photos with the wider railway in view but going from the negative sequence it's near the retaining wall in the cutting. My gradient profile has it between the footbridge and the ramp end on the up but not according to the photos in my archive. All photos are my own and taken with permission at a site visit. I sort of knew the owners. Mac. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 Mac, thanks ever so much for that information and photos. I so much wish I lived in that house. My project hasn't progressed much further since Christmas for various reasons, but I have been steadily accumulating locomotives, rolling stock and information. I should be able to start work by the end of this year. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 It's been a while, but the Stobs Project is still alive and well, with baseboard construction due to start after Longframlington's next public appearance on 9th November. I'm still tweaking the design: I managed to import an OS map image of the station area into Templot and confirmed that it will fit comfortably into my planned 8' x 2'6" scenic boards. I'm looking at some degree of automation for the storage loops so that I can run the layout single-handed at exhibitions. Also continuing to accumulate appropriate locomotives: here's one of the two 4MTs which ended up at Hawick. I really ought to change the tender crest for the later design: in too much of a hurry to get the thing finished, weathered and running in time for a show a couple of weeks ago. I also picked up an "A1" which will end up as one of the Haymarket allocation. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted December 29, 2019 Author Share Posted December 29, 2019 Anyone out there? It's all gone awfully quiet. The Stobs project continues to inch forward: still no baseboards yet but I have the beginnings of a signalbox. Also some outline drawings for the station house, 2D CAD and a lot of guesswork especially around the back. I would dearly love to know what the outbuildings behind the house looked like. It would be nice to have trains running by this time next year but no promises. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NittenDormer Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 I am always interested in any Waverley Line subjects, also good to see someone else modelling at my kind of pace. Lovely footbridge work. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted December 30, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2019 I have sourced a few images that may be of assistance for main building, outhouses and ancillary buildings and , what I've just realised to be, a Victorian cast iron carsey on the approach drive by the wooden garage. They're Tiff images unfortunately so let me have a play around and I'll get them to you shortly. Mac. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted December 30, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2019 Found some I'd edited years back at Roy's bequest. All Roy G Perkins photos circa 1966. They prompt more questions than they answer I'm sure. Such is the way of these things........ Mac 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted December 30, 2019 Author Share Posted December 30, 2019 It must be Christmas. So many things in those photos that I did not know about. I suspect the last one is post-closure as the running-in boards have gone missing. Thank you so much for these, really very much appreciated and inspirational. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted January 1, 2020 Author Share Posted January 1, 2020 I just realised that on 1st April it will be 50 years since the last train through Stobs (excluding demolition trains). I'd better get cracking with baseboards. https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/59/19/ Richard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 Templot track plan printed out and laid on the railway room floor to get an idea of how the beast will look. Type 2 diesel providing unusual and rather feeble motive power for the down "Waverley". I'm definitely getting a tingle here. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 A bit more work in progress. Yes, I've made the pillars slightly too wide. But I don't think that ruins it completely, and I've put too much effort into this card and Plastikard edifice to start again. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted January 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2020 Teviot Viaduct has pulled the same trick on me. You've got to remember it's out of context until you've got the landscape around it. Tends to settle down visually then. Positive progress should not be underestimated. Great work Richard. It seems to be winning that game of Twister too! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Stobs will be on TV next week. Details via the Project Hawick Facebook page. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 17 hours ago, 37175 said: Stobs will be on TV next week. Details via the Project Hawick Facebook page. Thanks for that, I'll see if I can track it down on catchup. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 Signalbox! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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