Dunnington, Derwent Valley Light Railway.

[Signaller69]

A couple of areas - the sawmill and Highlight Engineering yard - which used Faller printed "old concrete" hardstanding (but lacked any relief whatsoever) have been resurfaced with textured paint instead. This led to a rebuild of the sawmill area and decluttering the latter.

 

 

(Yes I am aware of the tractor doing a handstand in the lower pic!😆)

 

A MMR laser cut sawmill kit provided the saw table and a cut-down lean-to type shed, with some timber and personnel etc, yet to be added later this week.

 

Perhaps foolishly (at this stage of the game), I have also decided to make the visible part of the Station masters house more prominent than the simple frontage featured previously thus:

 

Still a big compromise of course, as there is not room to feature the whole 'L' shaped house, so the front and one side are being built and hopefully the roof lines will coincide with the manner in which it sits against the back- and end- scenes and better hide the dreaded "corner in the sky"......

 

this means some necessary ground work being undertaken too, as can be seen - and it all needs completing and detailing by Thursday evening!

 

The joy of Exhibition deadlines!😁

 

 

Edited November 21, 2022 by Signaller69

[Signaller69]

The Station Master's house is now in place; it needs another chimney adding on the side wall but it's not obvious unless you are familiar with the prototype. Space constraints mean it is not quite orientated correctly but the 'L' shape is more obvious and I feel it gives a much better representation than my first attempt.

 

 

The sawmill components are all now fixed in place, hopefully I might have a couple of suitable figures in my bits box, and some more bits of timber etc.

 

Either way, the layout will be loaded into the car by the morning and off to play trains at tomorrow's Rainhill show!

[montyburns56]

There's some picture of the line in the latest news pages on the North Wales Coast website...

 

http://www.nwrail.org.uk/nwnews.htm

[john new]

One of the pictures (Burton Lane Junction) has the chimneys of my first house just visible in the roof line.  The single departure was for Rowntrees workers at shift change. Prior to to the ECML diversion it previously ran to Selby.