darren01 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Hi Mick Your signals are a work of art!. Darren Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikemeg Posted March 17, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 17, 2015 (edited) Still waiting to take ts place on Hessle Haven, this is the up signal bridge which stood in this place until the mid sixties. All of the lattice work on this is scratch built; there are no echings for these prototypes. Because of the size of this model it's not easy to photograph, hence it being photographed on its cradle. Hopefuly, later this year, this model and a couple of other scratch built bridges and gantries will take their place on the layout. This one had a span of over sixty feet but I am now finishing another signal bridge - Scarborough Londesborough Road - which had a span of nearly one hundred feet and had eleven dolls on it. They were lovely things these old Mckenzie & Holland bridges and gantries and now there is only one example left working, notwithstanding the one which has been preserved on the NYMR. Cheers Mike Edited March 18, 2015 by mikemeg 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) In the photo, above, there is anther signal gantry in the left middle distance. This was the Hessle Haven up starters and was in fact less than a couple of hundred yards from the up signal bridge. This is the model which represents that installation. To make these models I first made very detailed drawings from various photographs of this place, almost all of which photos were supplied by my old mate Mick Nicholson, without whose amazing collection of photos, none of this could have been done. Again, all of the lattice work, except the lattice posts, was scratchbuilt from 0.8 mm and 1.0 mm 'L' angle and strip nickel silver. To build these lattices, jigs were made to the profile of each lattice structure. This too awaits its place on the next section of Hessle Haven. The photo above shows the track layout which has to be built for this section, not forgetting the gasworks of which detailed photos are as rare as 'hens teeth'. Cheers Mike Edited March 18, 2015 by mikemeg 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikemeg Posted March 18, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Finally, at least for my current contributions to this thread, here's a photo of another of the signal models, this time in place on the layout. This was the Hessle Haven down gantry as it appeared up until the mid 1960's, when the track layout and signalling were rationalised. Thanks are due to Mick Nicholson who very kindly rendered this photo into sepia. So, the scene from the shipyard bridge at Hessle Haven as it was in 1950 with a 4-8-0 Class T1 waiting for the road. For anyone who knew this place, in its heyday, then hopefully this photograph will bring back happy memories. Oh to be able to go back sixty five years and spend just one day back in that time, in this place. Cheers Mike Edited March 18, 2015 by mikemeg 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Michael Delamar Posted March 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 20, 2015 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AireValley1962 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Jinty 47410 on the afternoon goods, and silently simmering in the night. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7APT7 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Hi all I like the above photo and the night scene, nice dark shadows of the night... with the single light Great job Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted March 22, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2015 A black SR N class 1848 is seen leaving Brent in the summer of '47. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Waverley West Posted March 23, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2015 Flanges squeal as 107 447 winds its way through the pointwork as it emerges from under the National Gallery at the west end of Edinburgh Waverley station in the summer of 1988... 46 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post john flann Posted March 23, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2015 It's always a bright sunny day at Hintock. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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landscapes Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Flanges squeal as 107 447 winds its way through the pointwork as it emerges from under the National Gallery at the west end of Edinburgh Waverley station in the summer of 1988... 107 10.jpg 107 11.jpg Hi Its very hard to tell if the first photo is a model or a real DMU entering Waverley Station. Excellent Work. Regards David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Re6/6 Posted March 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2015 Dug up from the archive. Alas the layout is no more (for the moment!). Visitors from 'Kernow Towers' 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Like the "concrete" building in the background Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted March 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2015 Thanks Alan. It has survived and will be used on 'Matford New' (whenever that will be!) It started out life as a chopped about card Metcalfe factory/brewery (IIRC) but suffered from the 'warp' so I copied it in 18 thou plastic card to keep the character of the original. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted March 28, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Making sure that his toys are played with properly! Edited March 28, 2015 by Re6/6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest bri.s Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Making sure that his toys are played with properly! That's the most realistic modelled head I've seen ,although slightly out of scale,great modelling Brian CK looming 2.jpg Edited March 28, 2015 by bri.s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post micknich2003 Posted March 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2015 Another view of "Gilbert Lane" and from about twenty years ago. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted March 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2015 That looks familiar Mick, was the level crossing featured in Modelling Railways Illustrated? Thanks, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micknich2003 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 That looks familiar Mick, was the level crossing featured in Modelling Railways Illustrated? Thanks, Dave. Dave, I built the gates to explain a working level crossing, and I then got carried away, and kept on adding bits. Yes, it was in the late MRI. Mick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post micknich2003 Posted March 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2015 Another one from some years ago, and now on a mate's layout. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 SIGNAL BRIDGE 6 - Copy - Copy.JPG Another one from some years ago, and now on a mate's layout. Great stuff, particularly the shadow falling on the bridge abutment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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