RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted March 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 13, 2021 I'm currently building a small Diorama of a small NER goods yard, it started off as somewhere to photograph wagons and I had a Hornby Goathland goods shed to start from. The goods shed had a few issues though, all the doors were solid! what use is a goods shed on a layout if you can't get wagons in it? Anyway, it was taken out into the shed and attacked with a hacksaw. At some point in this process a corner of the roof got knocked off but this is being sorted. another issue with it is the height of the doors, they're very tall, I thought I might be able to cut off a course or two of stones but the road door is the correct height and making it taller would have messed the arch up so I decided to leave it alone. It will get a bit of a repaint as the stone looks a bit bland at the moment. It will also get a platform inside. The track is a little basic, just three sidings, one through the goods shed, one parallel to it and one curving round the front of the board. There's no turnouts, the sidings just disappear off the edge of the board. Stop blocks are from Lanarkshire Models, the middle siding will get one, probably a cast iron bracket type. Ballast and the yard surface is Chinchilla dust sprinkled onto the glue that the track is fixed down with, it was painted with thinned poster paint, black with a touch of brown. the yard surface was then rubbed down with a foam sanding block to get a finer more compacted looking surface, the repainted. The whole thing, yes, all of it... Bit of shunting, No. 44 pushes wagons into the shed. Hoss ready to leave with a consignment from Masham. The missing corner of the roof can clearly be seen, or perhaps not seen? Looking back the other way we see No. 44 shunting the front siding. The plan is to be able to photograph from all sides. You might notice a fence has appeared and the yard has had another coat of paint since the previous photos. 44 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Paul, been an admirer of you layouts for a while. Your new fence can you give us a few details as I am thinking of doing some more work on my P4 NER/LNER layout. Which I need at least some fencing on. The layout is packed away while I do some work on a station building. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrkirtley800 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Is it in EM gauge Paul, and do I see a three legged ‘oss. Derek 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted March 14, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 14, 2021 9 hours ago, DougN said: Paul, been an admirer of you layouts for a while. Your new fence can you give us a few details as I am thinking of doing some more work on my P4 NER/LNER layout. Which I need at least some fencing on. The layout is packed away while I do some work on a station building. The fence is 'NER Standard Close Boarded Fencing', there's a drawing and measurements in the NERA reproduction 'NER Book of Standards'. There's at least nine different types of fencing in there! It's built from Slaters planked plasticard (lightly scribed on the back too) and Evergreen strip. 8 hours ago, Mrkirtley800 said: Is it in EM gauge Paul, and do I see a three legged ‘oss. Derek Yes, it is EM. The 'oss sadly has all four legs but it does seem to be holding one up a bit so could at least be going a bit lame. 21 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) Well that looks to be a book I need to get hold of. Will be some time until the bank account recovers enough for me to buy some more modelling gear or books sadly. At only a bit under 6 quid its pretty cheap....I wonder... no must pay SWMBO's study bill. Happily though I have more than enough modelling to get on with at the moment. Thanks for the heads up! Edited March 15, 2021 by DougN Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted March 27, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2021 Yard gates. Built from Evergreen strip and brass wire, the right hand one is built to the drawing 'Standard 15' 0" Tube Gate' in the NERA standards book reproduction, the one on the left is just a 5' version of it. They will open, the tails of the crooks can be seen sticking out of the posts and will be trimmed. 21 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2021 What date are the standards in the Standards Book? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted March 27, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Compound2632 said: What date are the standards in the Standards Book? According to the introduction the book was prepared in 1908/9, the drawing for the gate is dated 30th March 1908. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2021 Just now, Worsdell forever said: According to the introduction the book was prepared in 1908/9, the drawing for the gate is dated 30th March 1908. It's much the same with a lot of Midland standard drawings - they're from around about then or later so for c. 1902 one has to take a punt that they represent existing best practice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted March 28, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 28, 2021 The gates have progressed, the diagonals have been filled in, they are two strips of plastic filled from the top with filler, and they have had a bit of paint slapped on. 21 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2021 All noted and following accordingly. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
waggy Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Hi Paul. I bought some chinchilla dust today what glue have you used in the yard area ? Graham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Impressive. I was wondering how you had got the tubes through the braces on the gate. Another thread I'll be following. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted March 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2021 8 hours ago, waggy said: Hi Paul. I bought some chinchilla dust today what glue have you used in the yard area ? Graham Neat PVA brushed on. 5 hours ago, MrWolf said: Impressive. I was wondering how you had got the tubes through the braces on the gate. Another thread I'll be following. I didn't, they pass through the verticals and the diagonal braces are built around them, two strips of 40x10thou and packed with Squadron white putty filler. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 When I read how you had done it further up the thread I was impressed by the quality of both the filler and the filling, not to mention the neat job of finishing it off. The reinforcing straps are a very nice job too. There was a very similar gate buried in the hedge on the driveway to Market Weighton station for years, along with a couple of concrete posts with square hoops for oil lamps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted March 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2021 I think these were the standard station/yard gate as seen here at Glaisdale not far from me, a single 15' one. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 That is very similar to the station entrance your gate puts me in mind of. I'm fascinated to see how things develop! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Despite being up since seven, I'm clearly not awake. I meant Middleton on the Wolds station. I last went there about 20 years ago having bought an old Ford Consul in the village, I thought I better have a test drive before heading back the other side of the penines. Picture borrowed from disused stations for illustrative purposes only. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted March 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2021 1 minute ago, MrWolf said: Despite being up since seven, I'm clearly not awake. I meant Middleton on the Wolds station. I last went there about 20 years ago having bought an old Ford Consul in the village, I thought I better have a test drive before heading back the other side of the penines. Picture borrowed from disused stations for illustrative purposes only. That will be the same kind of gate, they're basically a lighter version of a level crossing gate. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 I'm probably a bit strange, but I always find a layout convincing as soon as I spot some details that rings the "I've been somewhere like that" bell in the memory. Oddly enough, there's the remains of an almost identical gate guarding the remains of the colliery spur near Sutton Scarsdale on the old Midland Railway branch to Glapwell in Derbyshire. Parts of both have disappeared under junction 29 of the M1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted March 30, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2021 Class 398 No 1333 potters around the yard, but the lack of a shunter to uncouple the wagons is starting to annoy the fireman... 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 30, 2021 Why is the Midland D299 open always just in half off the edge of the photo or just too out of focus to bag its number for the list? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted March 30, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30, 2021 On 30/03/2021 at 19:10, Compound2632 said: Why is the Midland D299 open always just in half off the edge of the photo or just too out of focus to bag its number for the list? Ah, well... It was put there just for you... It's the same with NER C2s (and others), lots of numbers are known but there's so many variations in body strapping, brakes and axleboxes, I've got a spreadsheet that I fill in whenever I spot a new one! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Worsdell forever said: spreadsheet that I fill in whenever I spot a new one! Ah good, I thought it was just me. Encouraging to know I'm no madder than the rest. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Well, that makes me feel a lot better obsessing over gates.... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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