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Something a little more urban...

 

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... complete with my unpolished toecaps!

 

Plenty of Post Office Telephones access lids about but tbis is something a little more unusual.  Image taken 28/02/2021, five minutes walk from Watford Junction.

 

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TMc

01/02/2021

 

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6 hours ago, sir douglas said:

armers bridge made from concrete sleepers

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Which  neatly seques into another tale of Dewi Sant; apparently he was in the habit of standing up to his waist in a freezing stream for hours at a time in order to, as he put it, 'subdue the demons of the flesh'.  Two thoughts occur, firstly, what an idiot.  Secondly, hours?.

 

What a Man!!!

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An old gate (post) complete with associated pedestrian access. This was an entrance to a mine site. There is a second near identical gate site about 200m further down the track that this is on.

 

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Taliesin the cat at Cwmdimbath has been dozing on the top of the same pile of goods on the loading platform for over 4 years now, no point in attempting to animate him.  He's almost as slow as a British Leyland assembly line worker!  He's on the payroll, the station has a budget for his healthcare and food, as a ratter, but I cant honestly say he's much use; may have been a mistake giving him the vetinary diet that made him two stones lighter!  That said, I've never seen a rat at Cwmdimbath.  Sheepses, sometimes flying midgeses in summer pretending to be 4mm sparrowses, but not ratses.

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Some more photos of the mundane from my walk today.

 

1st up a modern bike rack. 

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Next, a village pump. just as appropriate for layouts set in the past as those set in current times. 

 

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Finally an old style cattle grid on an ancient track heading into a tin streaming works. 

 

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How many textures can you see on the harbours breakwater wall? Model it like that and just how quickly will you be told that it is wrong.

 

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16 hours ago, The Johnster said:

There's a little hairy chap that seems to be a feature of most of those photos; does he (of course he may be a she for all I know) count as a little thing?

I think the kids nowadays call it "Photo-bombing"(?) He's a he by the way and kept on walking into shot! :laugh:

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3 hours ago, Kris said:

How many textures can you see on the harbours breakwater wall? Model it like that and just how quickly will you be told that it is wrong.

 

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Pity we can't go in the pub that's behind you in that shot:sad_mini2:. Of course the inner harbour used to have an extensive rail network accesed from the incline. It's Portreath in Cornwall for those that don't know, I'm sat at home about 1 and a half miles away.

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On 01/03/2021 at 16:04, The Johnster said:

Which  neatly seques into another tale of Dewi Sant; apparently he was in the habit of standing up to his waist in a freezing stream for hours at a time in order to, as he put it, 'subdue the demons of the flesh'.  Two thoughts occur, firstly, what an idiot.  Secondly, hours?.

 

What a Man!!!

...and on his grave they wrote but one word. PILLOCK.

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And then they built a cathedral over it to keep the rain off. 

 

An epitaph suitable for more than one of the early christian hardliners, but it’s probably unfair to judge them by the mores of our time.  Even by the standards of those days, though, some of them seem to have been a bit, er, odd, and ready to believe in miracles.  

 

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One for the industrial areas

 

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This wall is in fact the parapet of a bridge over a branch of a relatively small river that runs through town.

 

The square infills were once red painted steel plates. Being a town with many factories  the purpose was to allow the fire brigade to easily access  the river below with their pumps 

 

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20 hours ago, SM42 said:

One for the industrial areas

 

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This wall is in fact the parapet of a bridge over a branch of a relatively small river that runs through town.

 

The square infills were once red painted steel plates. Being a town with many factories  the purpose was to allow the fire brigade to easily access  the river below with their pumps 

 

Andy

 

 

There were (are ?) quite a lot of them in Birmingham and Black Country giving access to the canals for the same reason.

 

Adrian

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A few little things from this neck of the woods. I have included the bizarre bird - one of series that mysteriously and anonymously were installed around Seaford a few years back - because not many bits of public artwork appear in model railway layouts. 

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Roots of a fallen tree - 

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A protective cage around a tree -

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A weathered ply fence at the back of West Quay - Newhaven

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A fairly modern wicket gate which has replaced the brick-built stile which has been worn away over the years - 

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Brilliant posts.

One things I have realised in the past year is that even minor roads and lanes have surprisingly complicated drainage and water supply systems buried under them. The drains are often inadequate in very wet weather, but in normal times take not only rainfall from the roads but also run-off from the adjacent fields.

And if our local area is anything to go by the drain covers are even more varied than the farm gates.

These two examples are on opposite sides of the same lane:

 

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while this one is a little further down the lane – and there are at least four other sizes and styles. Presumably the variation is a result of either changes to the drainage over the years or replacement of damaged drain covers.

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An interesting feature is that in three places along the lane field drains from the “uphill” side of the road, run under the road by a culvert and then produce a stream running down a small valley which is lined with trees – around here it is easy to spot streams from along away off by their associated trees. This would be a good way to “lose” a stream into the background of a layout.

 

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This, incidentally, is the “parapet” of the “bridge” across the first of those streams. The stream issues just below the road. Obviously not a priority for repair by the council. In itself it might make a nice little set piece.

 

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While adding drain covers to a model may be a bit over the top in 4 mm and certainly a job only for masochists in 2 mm, they would be worth the effort in 7 mm. On the other hand, a stream like those shown here would be a rather large feature in 7 mm but possibly in 4 mm and a very nice feature in 2 mm.

Jonathan

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8 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Brilliant posts.

One things I have realised in the past year is that even minor roads and lanes have surprisingly complicated drainage and water supply systems buried under them. The drains are often inadequate in very wet weather, but in normal times take not only rainfall from the roads but also run-off from the adjacent fields.

And if our local area is anything to go by the drain covers are even more varied than the farm gates.

These two examples are on opposite sides of the same lane:

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while this one is a little further down the lane – and there are at least four other sizes and styles. Presumably the variation is a result of either changes to the drainage over the years or replacement of damaged drain covers.

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An interesting feature is that in three places along the lane field drains from the “uphill” side of the road, run under the road by a culvert and then produce a stream running down a small valley which is lined with trees – around here it is easy to spot streams from along away off by their associated trees. This would be a good way to “lose” a stream into the background of a layout.

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This, incidentally, is the “parapet” of the “bridge” across the first of those streams. The stream issues just below the road. Obviously not a priority for repair by the colucil. In itself it might make a nice little set piece.

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While adding drain covers to a model may be a bit over the top in 4 mm and certianly a job only for masochists in 2 mm, they would be worth the effort in 7 mm. On the other hand, a stream like those shown here would be a rather large feature in 7 mm but possibly in 4 mm and a very nice feature in 2 mm.

Jonathan

Faller, Noch, Langley and Scale model Scenery do etched or laser cut drain covers in a variety of sizes and shapes.

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Please keep them coming.

More watery things this week. It is surprising how many fire hydrant and other markers there are in the countryside. Some are concrete, and may be painted all over, like this.

 

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Others also concrete may be blue. I have not worked out why, but perhaps someone here knows.

 

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Others just have the plate yellow; and they can be pretty unobtrusive.

 

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And they don’t necessarily come alone. Again, not very conspicuous.

 

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There are also places where the plate is fixed to a fence. I am not sure why we have both here.

 

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Sometimes, but by no means always, the manhole or cover is also painted so one can find it in the undergrowth.

 

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Any why have one when you can have four! Note that two have SV and two have WO.

 

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And if you can’t get hold of castings for these things, and don’t feel up to scratch building, then a bit of blue paint will suffice.

 

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Next time, things seen in fields.

Jonathan

PS Not surer why some are rotated. The originals are the right way up and they were when originally posted. I'll sort when I work out how.

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