kirtleypete Posted November 2, 2020 Author Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) I've just found a picture that shows the steps were open, unlike the ones at the other end. Back to it tomorrow. The rebuilding has begun (again!) Peter Edited November 2, 2020 by kirtleypete 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 To continue the saga.............. The wing wall forms a lovely reverse curve so I've cut that from a sheet of 1mm aluminium. The steps are blocks of 2mm plastic sheet. The area is very compressed compared with the real thing, but at long last it seems to be capturing how the real thing looked. I've made the full length steps from pieces of L shaped Plastruct. The gaps were filled with plastic strip and filler used to smooth it all down and fill any last gaps. The capping stones on the walls are plastic strip, which later will be scored and weathered. The finished scene. I did take some nice overall pictures, and then I noticed that in every one the damn smokebox door on the loco is open! I'll go back and take some more. Peter 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 Five pretty pictures with the smoke box door closed! I'm delivering it tomorrow so hopefully I can take more pictures with something more appropriate on the bridge. Peter 16 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 There's no such thing as a finished model! I'd made the parapet wall over the arch too low....now it's the right height. Peter 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 All looking good Pete, Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 As promised here are some pictures taken this morning with a variety of trains: A local from Scarborough. A4 'Seagull'....very appropriate for a train from the seaside! Peter 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2020 Lovely work but it's a little bit too clean and fresh for the era. I grew up in York during the sixties and while it wasn't black like Leeds it was in many places drab and grubby round the edges. Many homes had coal fires, the power station in the city was coal fired too and of course all those engines passing through or on shed. From memory, sandblasting buildings clean didn't start in earnest until the nineteen eighties. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 The station is going to be pretty grimy Neil, but I thought the houses needed to look a bit cleaner as the owners would have looked after them well, especially in a location like that. If you want grime, wait until we get to the engine sheds! Peter 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2020 (edited) Excellent, I look forward to it. This rather charming colour film from the fifties might help with the ambience of the city. https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-historic-york-1950-online Edited November 4, 2020 by Neil To include link to film. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 Fantastic! What a gem, thanks for sharing it. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 I'm reliably informed when work is done on the houses around mine a 100+ years of soot will fall out of the ceiling spaces, and wall spaces etc. As the soot drifts we are only a 1-200 yards from the MR roundhouses. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 On 04/11/2020 at 13:49, kirtleypete said: As promised here are some pictures taken this morning with a variety of trains: A local from Scarborough. A4 'Seagull'....very appropriate for a train from the seaside! Peter One of those houses is now a guest house we spent a cold snowy easter there not a good holiday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 (edited) It will always be summer on the layout! I spent a snowy Easter doing car park duty at York exhibition, possibly the same year. Peter Edited November 5, 2020 by kirtleypete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 6, 2020 17 hours ago, hmrspaul said: I'm reliably informed when work is done on the houses around mine a 100+ years of soot will fall out of the ceiling spaces, and wall spaces etc. As the soot drifts we are only a 1-200 yards from the MR roundhouses. Paul The first house I bought was in the Groves about a mile and a half away from the station and sheds. It needed a new ceiling in the front bedroom. I couldn't believe how much filthy black soot came down when the old ceiling came down. Conversely our last house was a converted chapel in the middle of nowhere, when one of the 150 year old ceilings was replaced there was relatively little mess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kirtleypete Posted November 6, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2020 (edited) Hi Paul You asked about the track layout. My customer is doing his own trackwork. He is in the process of setting up an RMWeb account so he can post directly, but in the meantime has sent some material through. This is a picture of the 1951 track layout [York Plan]. He is modelling the whole layout except for the sections highlighted in pink. The radius through the trainshed is to scale, but then will be tightened at the northern end as the lines diverge to Scarborough and the ECML. At the southern end, the layout will be significantly foreshortened, leaving out Holgate junction and excursion sidings, before modelling the divergence of the lines to Doncaster and Leeds. This photo [7878] shows the track layout through the station itself so far at the northern end. platforms 7, 8, 9, 12, 13. Slips, switched diamonds etc all faithfully modelled. Powering this lot up was very straightforward with DCC, switches on the point motors and frog juicers. This photo [8077] shows the trackwork ready for painting and installation for Scarborough line coming in from the left, the crossings over the lines into platforms 12 and 13, the junction into 14 and out to York yard north, and the through lines coming in from the north into platforms 14 and 15. And a short, very amateur, video of the 1st trains to run. A kitbuilt B16/3 and Sutton Loco Works Cl 24, straight out of the box. Yours truly driving. Peter Edited November 6, 2020 by kirtleypete 16 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Very impressive Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted November 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 7, 2020 I have the yellow peril signalling notice for the 1951 resignalling, it’s many feet long but it you want any photos for what signal goes where just let me know......a taster! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 7, 2020 Author Share Posted November 7, 2020 I think my customer is going to be very interested in that! I've been drawing the roof parts ready to be laser cut; a couple of examples: I'm hoping it will be possible to produce the whole span in one piece, but I'm not sure yet. Peter 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 Am I missing a trick here I wonder? My rendition of the roof at Glasgow Queen Street involves hundreds of pieces of brass. A bit old school I suppose! Keep up the great work . It is all looking fantastic Cheers David 3 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 7, 2020 Author Share Posted November 7, 2020 I suppose it depends how many pieces you'll need David. For the girders under the smaller roof spans I'll need 104 girders and 208 overlays, and I am not making that lot by hand! Mine will be laser cut in 1mm plastic, the same as the bridge girders, and I'll know that all 128 pieces will be exactly the same. Each roof girder will have an overlay on each side making it 3mm thick so they should be plenty strong enough. Then there are the large ones for the central span and the ones that go longitudinally between the columns. The end screens are quite decorative, but in the end drawing them was easy because I could drop a drawing on the real thing into my graphics software and simply build up my drawing on top so I know it's right. Then I deleted the prototype drawing leaving mine ready to use. Your way will certainly be cheaper, I'm expecting a hefty bill but it will be worth it. It was a great relief to learn that York Modelmaking are trading as normal during lockdown. Peter 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 York modelmaking is a godsend. I have the columns I need for the roof support from them. I have not worked out how many pieces of brass will go into the roof. I have two ends and nine intermediate arches plus 80 intermediate girders to connect it all together. That should keep me busy over the winter. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Andy, my customer says thanks very much for sharing the signalling diagram but he has already got his own copy. However, what we don't have is much information on the coal yard and coal drops behind the station which we want to model later on. Apart from a few not very distinct aerial photo's we've drawn a blank - has anyone got any pictures, especially showing the drops themselves? Thanks, Peter 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted November 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2020 Hi Peter, Which coal yard/drops specifically are you needing info on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirtleypete Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 The ones in the bottom left corner of this picture: We need ground level pictures that show detail of the drops themselves, ideally, Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
50A55B Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 The coal drops were remodelled by the Luftwaffe in 1942 so they may have been a bit different to the photo in the 1950s. Perhaps not appreciably so but something to watch out for. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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