Southern Staff platforms, Concrete Carriage Platform Legs.

[AdeMoore]

Hi all posted in Tips and Questions. But I thought worth a punt here to.

I’m looking at progressing my Meldon layout and need to replicate these platforms.

 

Dart Castings do some 18” and 24” scale wide.

 

https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/dart/L127.php

https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/dart/L126.php

 

I can’t make my mind up which these would be leaning to 24”? 

Also one support is white or appears white half way along, is there a reason for that?

Also is this the only source? I did consider scratch building but at £2.50 it’s never worth it!

 Cheers in advance.

[bécasse]

The Dart Casting ones are for carriage cleaning platforms which were very narrow. These appear to be platform wall brackets (SR Civil Engineer's Exmouth Junction catalogue no. 7/1), which were 3'-0" wide at the top and took a 3'-0" wide (by 4'-0" long) coping on top, they were a complex trapezoidal shape although the front T-shaped upright was basically vertical. They were commonplace on the Southern of the 1950s and 60s although they usually had full width platforms behind them and often had "wall" panels between each upright.

See pages 196 and 197 of the 2017 edition of Southern Nouveau for drawings.

[Wickham Green]

11 hours ago, AdeMoore said:

........ Also one support is white or appears white half way along, is there a reason for that? .....

There's always a reason ......... in this case it's probably a replacement for one where Exmouth Junction forgot to take the salt out of the shingle they used in the concrete - so the reinforcement 'blew'.

[AdeMoore]

11 hours ago, bécasse said:

The Dart Casting ones are for carriage cleaning platforms which were very narrow. These appear to be platform wall brackets (SR Civil Engineer's Exmouth Junction catalogue no. 7/1), which were 3'-0" wide at the top and took a 3'-0" wide (by 4'-0" long) coping on top, they were a complex trapezoidal shape although the front T-shaped upright was basically vertical. They were commonplace on the Southern of the 1950s and 60s although they usually had full width platforms behind them and often had "wall" panels between each upright.

See pages 196 and 197 of the 2017 edition of Southern Nouveau for drawings.

 

Cheers Bécasse have you a link to Southern Nouveau?

Photo below is vaguely like you mean I’m sure, the T shape front upright being rather wider here.

 

 

10 hours ago, Wickham Green said:

There's always a reason ......... in this case it's probably a replacement for one where Exmouth Junction forgot to take the salt out of the shingle they used in the concrete - so the reinforcement 'blew'.

 

Ok I can see that’s a possibility.

 Cheers.

[MikeTrice]

This is the publication referred to, now out of print: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Southern-Nouveau-Essay-Concrete-No/dp/0906867479

[Wickham Green]

1 hour ago, MikeTrice said:

This is the publication referred to, now out of print: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Southern-Nouveau-Essay-Concrete-No/dp/0906867479

That's the old version  -  the 2017 one's theoretically not out of print - just hard to find ! :https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781911262022/Southern-Nouveau-Lineside-1911262025/plp