Building Plans/drawings for Frome Station/Signal box/maltings etc

[kandc_au]

Hi,

As the subject says: Does anyone know where I can get any of the above please.
After quite a few calls to the UK I am no further advanced than when I started, trying to source these.
Quite happy to pay....just a matter of finding where to buy them from.

 

Khris

 

[Ian Smeeton]

Hi,

As the subject says: Does anyone know where I can get any of the above please.

After quite a few calls to the UK I am no further advanced than when I started, trying to source these.

Quite happy to pay....just a matter of finding where to buy them from.

 

Khris

 

I had

 a quick look at the NLS maps site.

 

This link is the best I could (quickly) find: http://maps.nls.uk/view/101461330

 

Britain from above may have some ariel views.

 

Regards

 

Ian

[Adrian Wintle]

I took a look through my library and the only thing I could find was the entry in An Historical Survey of Selected Great Western Stations - Volume Three, which has track/signalling diagrams at various times in history and some photos. No building diagrams.

 

There doesn't appear to have been anything in the GWRJ, and I didn't see any references in the BRMNA index http://www.brmna.org/xrefs.shtml so I doubt if there is anything in my collection of Model Railway Constructor (MRC) either.

 

I don't have a copy of MRC May 1983 which supposedly has a 'Guide to drawings of railway structures (GWR)'. Maybe someone who has a copy can check whether it references any.

 

Adrian

[kevinlms]

 

I don't have a copy of MRC May 1983 which supposedly has a 'Guide to drawings of railway structures (GWR)'. Maybe someone who has a copy can check whether it references any.

 

Adrian

No, it doesn't.

[kevinlms]

Hi,

As the subject says: Does anyone know where I can get any of the above please.

After quite a few calls to the UK I am no further advanced than when I started, trying to source these.

Quite happy to pay....just a matter of finding where to buy them from.

 

Khris

Someone must have something, Khris.

 

http://www.fromestandard.co.uk/Frome-Railway-Station-refurbishment-celebration/story-20658080-detail/story.html

 

I'm guessing someone made a drawing of the structure, before it was restored. Contact the newspaper for possible contacts?

[kandc_au]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the help so far.

I have the book with the track plans.

I have the Bristol-Radstock-Frome Book by maggs

I have the Frome - Bristol book by Mitchell winging its way to me although I understand it doesn't have the plans.

I have been on the phone to Mendip council- land registry -Ordnance survey, E mapsite all to no avail.

I rang the South Devon Railway and am waiting to hear back from them.

Have not had a response from NRM nor a couple of other places I have contacted.

Certainly makes it hard to model accurately.

 

Khris

[K14]

I was under the impression that the bulk of the GWR buildings plans were held at Wiltshire Archives in Chippenham, but a search failed to throw up anything. Maybe an email?

 

https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/archives/index.php

 

Looks like these guys did the recent refurbishment: http://www.amco-construction.co.uk/project/60/Frome-Stationand this lot acted as conservation consultants: http://www.purcelluk.com/news-events/news-archive/frome-station-upgrade-starts-on-site so they must have had access to the original plans as part of that.

 

Also... this thread might prove useful: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=618901

 

Pete.

[kandc_au]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for those links.
Some homework for Monday night for me

 

Khris

[Nick Holliday]

If you go to the Mendip District planning website and look for application 2012/1531 that gives access to the submitted drawings for the refurb, which provides both existing and propose elevations and plans for the station building. I appreciate that that won't help with the signal box or the malthouse, but the former was presumably a variation of a GWR standard design, and a good photo,if there is one, should get you very close.

If you go to the NLS site you can actually call up a 25" to the mile map of Frome, which shows in great detail all the building footprints, which will give you a pretty accurate starting point. There is a measurement facility on the page, but I wasn't able to get it to work properly for me. If all else fails a cut and paste into a suitable drawing package would allow you to take a few vital measurements.

The OPC book on GWR Architecture has a couple of views of the main building taken in 1973 together with a nice closeup of a stone built weigh house.

Edited January 30, 2016 by Nick Holliday

[BG John]

Britain From Above has some nice aerial views of the station that you can zoom in on if you're registered.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=frome

[K14]

If you go to the Mendip District planning website and look for application 2012/1531 that gives access to the submitted drawings for the refurb, which provides both existing and propose elevations and plans for the station building.

 

They took a little while to hunt down — not quite "on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard," but getting there — so here's a direct link to the planning documents:—

 

http://publicaccess.mendip.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=ZZZZOYKPXU933

 

P.

[BG John]

Shame I hadn't seen those drawings yesterday, as I started building one based on drawings of Ashburton last night, and could have been tempted to base it on Frome instead!

Edited January 30, 2016 by BG John

[kandc_au]

Guys,

Thanks for all your help again AND for the direct link to the refurbishment.

It has certainly helped give me a good start.

Network Rail was another place I have not heard back from....but maybe next week.

 

Khris

[Gordon A]

Khris,

 

Have you tried English Heritage at Swindon?

 

 

Gordon A

[MikeA]

Hi Khris,

 

I realise that time has gone by but wondered if you had progressed on Frome or decided to do something else? I am looking for information for a planned layout of the station and would like to know about changes to the track layout 1935-1950. It looks to me as if the Radstock branch was double track as far as West Junction for a time but the signal box diagram for the box at the station mentioned earlier in this thread and reproduced in the OPC book on the Westbury to Weymouth line by Derek Phillips shows a single line plus siding. The diagram is supposed to date from about 1950 and I wondered if the change took place when the new signal box was installed in 1933. Any information welcome. 

 

Excited by the arrival (at last) of Dapol's streamlined railcar as this will do nicely for the late 30s.

 

Mike

[kandc_au]

Hi Mike,

I did gather a bit of info but in the end wasn't happy with the amount I had to make, what I would consider a reasonable model so have opted for Thame.

From memory buildings were an issue ...particularly the one behind the goods yard. Then there was the issue of how to fit in available space and the list went on.

Don't know the dates of the Britain from above pics but you can get a good idea of the trackwork of the day from them.

My modelling dates were/are late 30's early 40's

 

Khris