RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 13, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) Evening all, I am slowly in the process of putting a website together, that will provide freely available imagery, aimed at giving modellers of all scales inspiration - whether that is for layouts, for specific buildings or features, for scenic ideas or just a way of getting the brain thinking about different subjects for a current or future layout. Given that this is taking me some time to do, I thought a good way of starting would be to create a specific thread on here to post a few pictures on different subjects. The idea is that the general 'wide aspects' may provide inspiration, while closer detail shots may help those building models or scratch building. If anyone else wishes to contribute images, or discuss topics or ideas for how some of the buildings or topics could appear, then feel free. It would be nice for this to become a community thread. Im assuming that this doesn't break any forum rules, but I'm sure Andy will shout and remove it if it does. Of note, all the images that I post will be my copyright, and Im posting them on the premise that people can freely download them or use them however they wish for their own personal use. Please do not publish on websites or magazines without asking - it would be very rare for me to say no, but I'd like to know how people are using them. If anyone needs a higher resolution for any reason, again just drop me a line and I should be able to sort that for you. If anyone adds other photos onto this section, please bear two things in mind, a) as with the forum, they must be your copyright, or you must have permission to post them and b) my thought is to keep all images within a particular post on one subject, location or building - this will allow an index to be created as the second post, so that anyone seeking pictures in the future can easily find things. To anyone else posting, if you can do the same, that would be great and I can just add your shots into the index. I hope people find it useful! Rich Edited May 13, 2017 by MarshLane 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) Thread Index Buildings Cromford Mills, Peak District (Added 13/05/17) High Peak Junction Workshops (Added 20/05/17) Peterborough Eastfield Signal Box & surrounding depots (Added 13/05/17) Oxmarsh Crossing Signal Box, Lincolnshire (Added 13/05/17) Valley Signal Box, Anglesey, North Wales (Added 20/05/17) Rolling Stock Wagons - IIA-D - Drax Power, bogie biomass hoppers (Added 13/05/17 - Additional Images 14/05/17) Locomotives - Class 43 Powercar 43238 (NRM livery) (Added 14/05/17) Lineside Infrastructure Colour Light Signals Pt.1 (Added 14/05/17) Colour Light Signals Pt.2 (Added 20/05/17) Track & Pointwork Designs Pt. 1 (Added 20/05/17) Station & Platform Furniture (Added 20/05/17) Water Tower, High Peak Junction, Peak District (Added 20/05/17) Narrow Gauge Penrhyn Railway - Felin Fawr, Bethesda (Added 20/05/17) Miscellaneous Containers (Added 20/05/17) Edited May 20, 2017 by MarshLane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2017 Cromford Mills, Peak District I thought I'd start off with some shots taken today of one of the brick-built buildings at Sir Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill. The building when originally built was for domestic use and sits within the Cromford Mill site, but on the western edge. Today it is used as offices. Its resemblance to many railway buildings of the early 1900s is quite remarkable. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) Drax Power - Biomass Bogie Wagons (IIA-D) - Updated 14th May 2017 Specifically designed and constructed by WH Davies at Shirebrook for Drax Power, to convey biomass from the ports to Drax Power Station. These wagons are TOPS code IIA-D and a total of 200 are being built, with the international number series of 83.70.0698.001 to 83.70.0698.200. The first of the type came into service in September 2013, and as of 2017 are being used by DB Cargo on biomass flows from the Ports of Immingham and Hull. In addition, GB Railfreight operate the wagons from Liverpool Docks. Additional Images showing the bogies: Edited May 14, 2017 by MarshLane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2017 Peterborough Eastfield SB & surrounding depots Peterborough Eastfield signal box is of a Great Northern Railway design that was built in 1893. Remarkably, this surviver from the steam age is still doing its original job on today's railway. Located just north of the DB Cargo Depot, on the eastern side of the East Coast Main Line, the rear of the box is clearly visible to passing trains. Also at Peterborough, further north of Eastfield SB is the small GBRf locomotive servicing and fueling facility, while between Eastfield SB and the station is the remains of the former BR Depot at Peterborough, now operated by DB Cargo. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Hi Rich. What an absolutely wonderful idea, I'm sure that it will be more than welcome on the forum As you may know, I'm always posting pictures of stuff on the forum and if I can be of any help I have millions of scratch built structures to choose from - what a marvelous opportunity for my ego ! Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 14, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2017 Thanks Allan, Coming from such an esteemed model maker as yourself that is a compliment! My hope is that the thread will cover a wide variety of older and newer topics and through the index will be easily searchable for people! Rich Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 14, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2017 (edited) Colour Light Signals On the modern railway, all colour light signalling is the same right? Wrong! There is a wide range of types, many of which are valid for multiple time 'periods' but some are newer. The older style have bulbs, more newer examples are single lens (or dual lens in the case of double yellow) LEDs, then there is a more modern style of LED as well. For modern image modellers, or those scratch building signals, the following may give some indication as to the wide variety of types in use. There is, I gather, a base standard for signals, but everyone is adapted to suit the location it is in, be that with the addition of 'feathers' or a theatre indicator, additional signs, calling-on or shunt signals, or 'Close Doors/Right Away' indicators. For further examples, see Part 2. A modern four-aspect signal, at the south end of Oxenholme, with feathers giving access to the goods loop. Note the minimal thickness of the signal head. Modern three-aspect, single lens LED bulbs, pictured at the south end of Darlington station. One of the gantry signals within Edinburgh Waverley. The cage on the right holds a shunt signal for the opposite direction A close up of one signal head of the above gantry. A three-aspect colour light at the south end of Leeds. The indicator on the left shows CD (Close Doors) which is illuminated by platform staff pressing a button, once the platform duties are complete and all doors are closed, another button changes the display to RA (Right Away) One of the newer single lens LED type, located at the south end of Doncaster station Platform 8. The theatre indicator (here showing S for Sheffield) is located alongside because of sighting issues with the nearby footbridge if mounted above the main aspect. An older four-aspect colour light complete with double feathers (for Leeds and Scunthorpe lines respectively), a stencil indicator showing X and E, and a shunt signal. Can anyone enlighten me as to the 'X E' indicators - I've never seen them lit! Are they XE or separate X and E, and to what do they refer? The latest modern three aspect LED head at installed at Barnetby in late 2015. The angled post is due to gauging clearances. As can be seen from the close-up below, the signal is made of multiple LEDs in a pattern, allowing it to display, red, yellow and green. The three 3x3 grids on the angled side display red, yellow, green (from bottom to top) to allow easier sighting for staff who maybe lineside and cannot clearly see the indication at the front - the angle of sight is quite limited, but well within that normally seen by a driver. Similar kind of signal giving a side on view. Another same kind of signal, again at Barnetby, this time on Platform 1 heading eastbound, showing a straight post. Of note is that the signals are set further back from pointwork than the old semaphores, presumably because of the modern requirements for signal 'overlaps'. Edited May 20, 2017 by MarshLane 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 14, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2017 Oxmarsh Crossing Signal Box, Lincolnshire Located on the Ulceby to Barton-on-Humber line, the current Oxmarsh Crossing box was built in the mid-1950s after the original box was fire damaged. A brick construction, it previously had a 29-lever frame and controlled far more than the crossing and single line that it does today. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 14, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2017 Rolling Stock - Class 43 Powercar 43238 In case anyone is planning a repaint or transfers of the Virgin power car named after the NRM.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigan Wallgate OO Gauge Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 This is a brilliant topic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 19, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2017 This is a brilliant topic Thanks for the comment! I did wonder if it was of interest to anyone! Likewise if there's any specific area's that people are interested in - please do shout and I'll see what I can do! Rich Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 20, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 (edited) High Peak Junction Back to the steam era for the first images tonight, and the bottom end of the Cromford & High Peak Railway. High Peak Junction comprised the engine shed (now demolished) and workshops. These were taken in May 2017. Some additional detail shots can be found on acg_mr's Cromford Wharf Shunting Layout thread (click here), along with some archive shots of how the area looked when in railway service (click here) Rich Edited May 20, 2017 by MarshLane 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 20, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 Water Tank, High Peak Junction Alongside the above building, where the rope-hauled incline to Middleton Top used to run (now a cycleway) is way I believe to be the original water tower, used for refreshing the shunting locomotives at the bottom sidings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 20, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 Track and Pointwork Part 1 A selection of shots that show track and point work on the National Network, that may help those building their own track, or designing track work. These were all taken at Shrewsbury in November 2016. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 20, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 Containers The common shipping container is now a ubiquitous sight on Britain's rail system. It occurred to me while wandering through my images that some of our modern image modellers may appreciate these as examples of the real thing. One of the many containers now used for transferring refuse A different type of container, these are transport on the Tinsley - Immingham steel service. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 20, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 Valley Signal Box, North Wales The signal box at Valley, on Anglesey, is a Grade-II listed structure. It is a London & North Western Railway, Type 5 design, dating from 1904. The box is a block section on the main line to Holyhead, and controls the adjacent level crossing, which is now barriers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 20, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 Felin Fawr, Bethesda, North Wales Staying in North Wales, one for our narrow gauge modellers. The area around Felin Fawr is well known within the narrow gauge world for the last working steam on the Penrhyn system, not to mention various well-published views of redundant locomotives stored in lines. The area today is being restored by the Penrhyn Railway, and a couple of years back I was privileged to be given a guided tour around the site. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 20, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 Colour Light Signals (Part 2) More examples of the wide and varied design of colour light signals employed on Britain's rail network. For other examples, see Part 1. A selection of four aspect colour lights, pictured on a gantry at East Croydon A modern LED signal at Walton-on-Naze, part of the signals installed in relation to the ERTMS and Thameslink Signalling test track. Im assuming the bottom two are a combined shunt-signal, but they could be related to the Thameslink Core signalling testbed. A four-aspect signal mounted on a gantry at Whitley Bridge in West Yorkshire. Three and four aspect signals on a gantry and Church Fenton in Yorkshire. The platform road has a three aspect, with a feather for services heading to Milford Junction and either Castleford or Knottingley. The through road is four-aspect, with Leeds being the only destination option. One of the new colour lights introduced with the resigning of the line from Knottingley to Hensall & Drax. This is FE6422, approaching from Whitley Bridge. Straight ahead is the route into Knottingley station with four aspect option. The feather gives access to the depot by-pass line. The shunt signal and stencil indicator on the left provides access to the Depot. The other end of the depot by-pass, this time approaching from the Doncaster direction. Three aspect signalling gives the route ahead round the back of Knottingley station, the feather directs traffic over the depot by-pass line heading for the Aire Valley Power Stations. On the right, a ground shunt signal provides the ability for movements in the opposite direction to reverse and shunt back on the Depot by-pass line. Three aspect signalling using the latest type of LED, as pictured on a gantry at the east end of Sudforth Lane Sidings. The green relates to the main line, the three reds to the three sidings. A new three-aspect LED signal with feather indicator Older style gantry with three-aspect colour light signals, near Hatfield Colliery A three-aspect standalone signal, with the line side telephone position forward of the signal itself. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted May 20, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 Station Furniture When modelling stations in the steam era, the platform were littered with traditional benches, noticeboards, wooden signs and gas or electric lamps. Today much of the same remains but supplemented by modern technology items such as screens, help points and signs. But there are also the odd remarkable and truly modern structure as well.... Modern ticket machines Coffee bars Shops Benches Flower Tubs Bike Stands Help Points Arrival/Departure & Information Screens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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