Brickworks transfer trolley diorama

[Dunalastair]

In my 'diorama a day' series, I previously posted a couple of medium sized dioramas representing brickworks using overhead electric transfer trolleys (in 'Bedfordshire brick press shop diorama'). In some of the smaller brickworks a simpler system was used, still with electric traction but with third rail pickup on smaller 'locos'. Simpler trolleys were also used, but I did not represent these in this diorama. Note the skid-plates between the bricked up kilns and the transfer rail track. When strong enough forklift trucks became available, such NG railed material handling systems were soon replaced. Not exactly a 'railway' in the public railway sense, but heavy industrial processed employed many such railed systems to move heavy materials and products around works sites. Railways and tramways used to move material from quarries to works were more visible to the public eye (and lens) but images of these internal systems are rarer and often only available in specialist books and journals.  This makes it difficult to show the prototypes of some of my dioramas - not always helped by my not remembering which book / journal the inspiration came from. 

 

 

This rather smaller diorama is again 3D printed, using a filament printer, finished using acrylic paints.

Edited July 11, 2023 by Dunalastair