RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 18, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18, 2021 Are you still looking for a suitable bridge source, Phil? How about good old Superquick? - https://www.superquick.co.uk/red-brick_tunnel-entrance 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 18, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said: Are you still looking for a suitable bridge source, Phil? How about good old Superquick? - https://www.superquick.co.uk/red-brick_tunnel-entrance Thanks Kapn. I had considered that, however this damn Bridge is going to be right in yer face and next to the actual entrance to the Room of Dreams! (That is, the loft hole). Sadly it needs to pass the view from 30 cm test and good old S Quick is a bit 'flat', if beautifully coloured. I used a S Quick one, plus all sorts, for the Station/Yards West Underbridge as that isn't so important (to me). Looks OK but....still not absolutely sure; it could be replaced. How fussy can I be? I think I am going to have to get off my arse and use a moulded material lamination on the lazer cut thing (flat and hardly 3D) I have adapted to fit the position. This would mean actually having to do some modelling/artistic/architectural thinking and work. In your experience, does that in the lower picture, look like a mix of Red Brick (horizontal Road Wall top and vertical Buttresses and Barrell, with perhaps the Ringstone face? ), and stone elsewhere? I can use RTR stuff for that but I may have to scribe the rest...argghh! I could copy the Stubby 'Hungry Caterpillar mouth' method if I am capable. Presumably, 60 years ago that bridge would have looked in better condition, with suitable sooty weathering? P 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 18, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 18, 2021 (edited) Actually, doing a good enlargement of that second picture shows pretty good detail. It looks to me that it includes a single arc Brick course 'Barrell front' under a 4/5 course Ringstone arc. It also shows the Buttresses splay out as they 'drop'. A frontage not unlike this one... P Edited July 18, 2021 by Mallard60022 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 19, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 19, 2021 16 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: In your experience, does that in the lower picture, look like a mix of Red Brick (horizontal Road Wall top and vertical Buttresses and Barrell, with perhaps the Ringstone face? ), and stone elsewhere? I'd say you're right there, Herr Quackmeister. Possibly one way is to part-scribe (eg. the stone work) in something like DAS and use embossed bricks for that part, all on a thick card base? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 19, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: I'd say you're right there, Herr Quackmeister. Possibly one way is to part-scribe (eg. the stone work) in something like DAS and use embossed bricks for that part, all on a thick card base? Anything thick suits me old bean. There rea plenty of excellent items to look at on RMW but it isn't as stony as many Bridges down real west. Mucho grassio. Not an urgent job so probably get done in 2024! Bricking it when stoned would be the way forward. Ar$£ 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted July 19, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 09/06/2021 at 17:13, Mallard60022 said: It can't be a bridge, there is no bus on it .... 1 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 21 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: Bricking it when stoned ... Sounds unpleasant 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 On 18/07/2021 at 17:43, Mallard60022 said: Actually, doing a good enlargement of that second picture shows pretty good detail. It looks to me that it includes a single arc Brick course 'Barrell front' under a 4/5 course Ringstone arc. It also shows the Buttresses splay out as they 'drop'. A frontage not unlike this one... P Morning Duckychops. Interesting photo, certainly looks like the bridge has been strengthened after closure of the line. Extra brick courses added to the arch ring and abutments on the face but could be concrete behind that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 20, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, 2ManySpams said: Morning Duckychops. Interesting photo, certainly looks like the bridge has been strengthened after closure of the line. Extra brick courses added to the arch ring and abutments on the face but could be concrete behind that. Yup, that would make sense. On the actual one I suspect NR (or whatever) have kept it in reasonable nick over the years. Have you enlarged my post picture of that one to have a shufty? P Edited July 20, 2021 by Mallard60022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 20, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 17 hours ago, Ian Morgan said: It can't be a bridge, there is no bus on it .... There was about to be, as Google Earth took that pic from the Cab of a Bristol Lowdekka. P 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 20, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 2 hours ago, LNER4479 said: Sounds unpleasant Not 'being stoned'; that would be unpleasant and would hurt a lot. When stoned should be mellow and serene or so I'm told. P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said: 'being stoned' Which reminds me of a certain film ....... 2 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 55 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: There was about to be, as Google Earth took that pic from the Cab of a Bristol Lowdekka. P Now would that there Lowdekka be a LD or a FS or a FLF? Or ever rarer a LDS, a FSF, a LDL, or a FL ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 20, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 6 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Now would that there Lowdekka be a LD or a FS or a FLF? Or ever rarer a LDS, a FSF, a LDL, or a FL ? A Green one with shiny bits and front doors. P 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Western or Southern National FLF then! Paul 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 20, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Flying Fox 34F said: Western or Southern National FLF then! Paul Yup but Western I think as Google can't afford The SN Heritage Group's fees More seriously, I have a note somewhere of a service that operated locally and actually called at Seaton Junction and it was a WN LD IIRC? I think it might have only been 3 days a week but that might have been 3 calls a day? Can't remember at the moment. I know there was definitely a cross Country Bus, Taunton I think it was, to Seaton or Lyme. Might even still run that route? Edit: yes it does and there are two; 885 and 20, both to/from Seaton P Edited July 20, 2021 by Mallard60022 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 20, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 Found on an old post from 2015!!!!! Posted September 17, 2015 I have just found another Devon General timetable from 1955 which I had forgotten about, it shows a bus service to Seaton Jn. There is a service No. 52, Exeter - Honiton - Seaton which ran three days a week, I wonder how long after 1955 it ran? It does not appear in the 1965 timetable. Runs W S Su Exeter (Paul St) 9.5 1.5pm 5.5pm Seaton Jn 10.39 2.39pm 6.44 pm Seaton 10.57 2.57pm 7.2pm The service from Taunton to Seaton was the 213 Western National, via Axminster. P 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2021 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: Found on an old post from 2015!!!!! Posted September 17, 2015 I have just found another Devon General timetable from 1955 which I had forgotten about, it shows a bus service to Seaton Jn. There is a service No. 52, Exeter - Honiton - Seaton which ran three days a week, I wonder how long after 1955 it ran? It does not appear in the 1965 timetable. Runs W S Su Exeter (Paul St) 9.5 1.5pm 5.5pm Seaton Jn 10.39 2.39pm 6.44 pm Seaton 10.57 2.57pm 7.2pm The service from Taunton to Seaton was the 213 Western National, via Axminster. P One of my old school buses. The occasional variations of the 213 that ran via Seaton Jn after the branch closed would (if covered by double deckers) have used LDs. IIRC FLFs didn't run south of Axminster until after the Rail Replacement figleaf stopped running and the old river bridge at Whitford had been replaced. Also, there were only a few through trips between Seaton and Taunton each day. Most were just Seaton-Axminster or Seaton-Chard. North of Chard was strictly WN's patch so the full length 213 was theoretically a joint SN/WN service. John Edited July 20, 2021 by Dunsignalling 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 7 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: Found on an old post from 2015!!!!! Posted September 17, 2015 I have just found another Devon General timetable from 1955 which I had forgotten about, it shows a bus service to Seaton Jn. There is a service No. 52, Exeter - Honiton - Seaton which ran three days a week, I wonder how long after 1955 it ran? It does not appear in the 1965 timetable. Runs W S Su Exeter (Paul St) 9.5 1.5pm 5.5pm Seaton Jn 10.39 2.39pm 6.44 pm Seaton 10.57 2.57pm 7.2pm The service from Taunton to Seaton was the 213 Western National, via Axminster. P Phil, Living where you do, you could always pop over Dunham Bridge and have a ride on this one, when the LVVS have a Running Day! Photo copyright of LVVS. Paul 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 22, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22, 2021 On 20/07/2021 at 20:33, Flying Fox 34F said: Phil, Living where you do, you could always pop over Dunham Bridge and have a ride on this one, when the LVVS have a Running Day! Photo copyright of LVVS. Paul I am looking forward to their next event when they can get past this bloomin Covid thing. Lovely idea thanks. P 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 24, 2021 Today I did another Bridge.....but not the one discussed here the last week! Good old Peco Single Track one (well, two Kits actually) + some Balsa card and a lot of Evostick, for the Branch overbridge (intended scenic break). It fits and that's about all I can say. It is going to have to be a scratch built one for this Incline Bridge 466. That means I have actually got to do some drawings and some thinking; grief! I may be some time. P 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) I have decided to do the Fiddle yard end scenic break bridge with a Peco product. I think it looks ok but may need some painting up yet. Fiddle yard to the left will be covered by Pods. Space beyond the bridge will be built up a bit to screen the FY entry/exit; I have started that with some scrap plastic walling. The other Bridge I have been fussing with is supposed to represent this: Ignore the brash, fresh, unweathered card experiment as the bricks are wrong and the arch bricks are too big (just paper from a Superquick one and it should be 4/5 courses anyway). It is the overall face proportion I am trying to represent as the arch is rounder than the Peco product. Still not sure, but when I use embossed plastic card it should be easier to 'mould' and paint and bend to the subtle shape required? Ballast and bits here and the two slopes of the Cutting sides will enhance it too of course. I must get around to fitting the N15 with the necessary detailing parts, however that is for much later. Edit: after some thinking I suspect that arch is too 'round'. It needs to be more of an ellipse if that is the term? Between the Peco shape and mine I think. P Edited July 28, 2021 by Mallard60022 Additional comment. 14 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted August 4, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 4, 2021 I was out around there last week and at least half what you can see in your last prototype shot is covered up with SR livery foliage! Left the camera in its bag..... John 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted August 5, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) Second attempt at starting the Incline approach to Stubby's Hungry Caterpillar. The Caterpillar in Metamorphosis; Stubby will cry. It looks very messy but is just tacked together so if there is an incident I just take it to bits! Out of site, out of mind. Thus the Tunnel is almost dark enough and will be when I have draped a lightweight blanket over it and installed the cleaning brush. My Fine mesh behind the Tunnel Portal will just be grass and the Tape & Polystyrene embankment is so I can plant stuff as required. This little section is not moveable. There will be a removable lid behind that bit of bank above the Tunnel Mouth, filled with Trees and Bushes, as per the Prototype. The rest of the Incline embankment will be a Pod with Lid and all removable for access to the Fiddle Sidings. Edited August 5, 2021 by Mallard60022 14 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted August 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 5, 2021 That's looking really good. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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