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York station in the 1950's.


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To continue the saga..............

 

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The wing wall forms a lovely reverse curve so I've cut that from a sheet of 1mm aluminium.

 

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The steps are blocks of 2mm plastic sheet.

 

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The area is very compressed compared with the real thing, but at long last it seems to be capturing how the real thing looked. 

 

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I've made the full length steps from pieces of L shaped Plastruct. 

 

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The gaps were filled with plastic strip and filler used to smooth it all down and fill any last gaps.

 

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The capping stones on the walls are plastic strip, which later will be scored and weathered.

 

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The finished scene. 

 

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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

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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.

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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!

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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. 

 

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On 04/11/2020 at 13:49, kirtleypete said:

As promised here are some pictures taken this morning with a variety of trains:

 

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A local from Scarborough. 

 

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A4 'Seagull'....very appropriate for a train from the seaside! 

 

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Peter

 

One of those houses is now a guest house we spent a cold snowy easter there not a good holiday. 

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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.

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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!

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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: 

 

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I'm hoping it will be possible to produce the whole span in one piece, but I'm not sure yet. 

 

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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.

 

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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. 

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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

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