GRC Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Hi everyone, working on a layout of Shillingstone which I'm planning to set between 1923 and 1940. I'm trying to decide how best to do the platforms and the road running up to the station and the yard. Anyone any idea of when the platforms and yards would have been laid with tarmac? I'm thinking of using a sand coloured mix for gravel but want to see if anyone knows anything definitive before making the decision?. I've now finished the wiring up and although need to fully test and check the wiring im hoping that once thats done I can start ballasting and modifying the scenery. Thanks Gavin... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailWest Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I'm puzzled by the layout at the south end - are you intending to model the proposed-but-never-built doubling to Blandford? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRC Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 Nothing as grand, in standalone mode I'll have buffers on the north and south end to reflect the sidings that existed, I read somewhere that there was potentially room for at least 12 coaches there. if it's being used as part of the rm modular setup then depending on the adjacent modules it can be either 1 or 2 roads. the reality is that from the crossover points on the Southern end to the end of the module is only 3 feet so only 3 mk1's or so anyway. Gavin....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailWest Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 ...but the siding at the south end came off the Up loop, not by a facing point off the Down loop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combe Martin Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Yes, there's a good picture of this in Ivo Peters 3 , 1960-1962. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted February 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2015 We raised this question of the oddly accessed layby earlier in the main layout thread. Rule 1 applies, particularly so it can work within the modular system. Given that the S&D was photographed so much, there must surely be pics somewhere that show the platform surfacing at the period in question. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Regarding photos of the platform surface at Shillingstone, page 71 of Mitchell and Smiths - Bournemouth to Evercreech Junction (Middleton Press) shows the surface in "about 1898" whilst in Judge and Potts An Historical Survey of the Somerset and Dorset Railway" (Oxford Publishing Co) a c1910 photo of Shillingstone also shows the surface. The latter suggests tarmac running into gravel/sand towards the end ramp (there seems to be a slight ridge on the junction of the surfaces) and the former could show either but perhaps favours tarmac. I think Alan Hammond's books may also show some early Shillingstone pictures as well. Nothing definitive I'm afraid but these photos may help you. If you type in Shillingstone Station Photos into a search engine you will get some up including the c1910 photo mentioned above. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Further to above, and apologies if you have already done so, if you search engine Shillingstone Railway Project and enter media gallery they also have some older photos including one of the back of the station and station forecourt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bécasse Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Tarmacadam is a very unlikely surface pre-Great War. Careful study of a very large number of datable postcards has shown that prior to the Great War the most usual surface material was Macadam (carefully graded stones, rolled flat with the finest stones at the top), with setts or tarred wood blocks fairly common in town centres. Surfaces which had to take a lot of wear would typically been hard finished with flagstones, setts or engineering bricks. I suspect that Shillingstone had engineering bricks close to the buildings and in areas where milk churns might be moved and macadam elsewhere plus, of course, flags along the platform edge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRC Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 Thanks guys, the pictures on the Shillingstone site certainly look like some sort of loose surface rather than a hard core surface which was why I asked the question. I am assuming that this extends onto the up platform up the flagstones on the platform edge. It's clear from pictures in the 50's and 60's that the platform surfaces had been tarmac'd by then. assuming Macadam was the material of choice and what sort of colours would they have been, Purbeck stone or something greyer? Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Bit far away from the Purbeck stone quarries (Purbeck, West Dorset, some in Wiltshire) but there is a Corallian limestone outcrop in Blackmoor Vale. Ham stone from Yeovil way may be a possibility. The answer is - I don't really know. Gravel could have been extracted from the Stour Valley - a possibility. Sand from near Bailey Gate? There were chalk quarries near Shillingstone. Could the surface have been crushed chalk? Even crushed Carboniferous Limestone from the S&D quarries in the Mendips? Need some sort of inference of the colour. Best of luck. It is an interesting question. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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