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Looks a bit chilly in that house!

Cottages at Luxulyan are a fine example... see abit of hedge row there too! Luxulyan station, September 1959 NRM Chris I'll stop hijacking your thread now heh heh

Hi, lengthy explanation sorry I believe it's a recurring theme here in Cornwall, one of the most common things I probably noted on Cornish housing as apposed to the more English way of building houses. Most of the cottages or even houses I've seen down here are built like this. The chimneys are to the outside walls and the doors towards the centre, I believe because of the width of most of the 'cornish houses' were quite narrow and as you walk in the front door there's the stair case going up. In some cottages you need to duck slightly because of the height. For example in my grandparents cottage they actually knocked in an additional window just above the stair case to let light in the toilet of the bathroom which they fitted it is tucked above the roof of the stairs on top of a step. My grandparents shown me some pictures of the cottage before they knocked the additional window in. Most common but before the toilet would have been at the bottom of the garden of which there are remains of it. A good example of the style is the most famous railway cottages at Burngullow which are built with the living rooms and kitchens towards the centre with chimneys. The end two houses have the doors towards the outside and because of the width of the building the stairs are directly behind the front door and takes up most of the width of the building. None of the railway cottages have windows above the front or back doors for this reason I presume. I think you'll find Cornish housing is considerably smaller than some other housing mainly being built for china clay workers and minors, farms or even railway employees. I assume most english housing have are either wider and have a upstairs bedroom or the stairs has a window above it to let light in on the landing. Burngullow, September 1959 NRM Just one of those little details, the cornish also have their own way of building hedge rows. Of which the hedge rows are built in a certain way to stop them falling over. Cheers, Reece

Tis a pretty cottage There's lots of nice cottages in Cornwall also. I'll be making a model of this one particular one sort of similar kind of shape to yours: Sketched a picture of it, the model when I build it will be going on a small project layout of a real location should prove interesting, 1930s - 50s period probably would have the old sash windows. I look forward to seeing more progress on your cottage

Looks good, quite nice the Coopercraft bits. I think the nameplate really is the icing/cherry on the cake for the signal box. I look forward to seeing more developments with lots of pictures!

I was just thinking about the items of milk traffic related stock you have already and the splendid creamery building you made from the walthers kit. but it will be interesting to see what will replace it in the lineside industry. Maybe something involving Cider making and surrounded by pleasant apple trees perhaps? A 'Cornish' bakery? That could raise a further question of which side of the bridge the layout is to be set on? Hmm... I'm further intrigued to watch with a greater interest on developments!

Looks good so far and I continue to look forward to seeing more progress. I might have missed something in text but just out of curiosity will the layout continue to have the creamery somewhere?

I want to see pictures

Aww yeh all that action. The Gronk is really going for it in the first video... The driver found a way to make it go 10x faster!

All part of ''The Modernisation of British Railways''

Must admit when I'm wrong in my suggestion, that turntable turned out great Alan! (no pun intended) I look forward to seeing more and the completed scene. Cheers, Reece

Looks good to me, I show my admiration/appreciation with a 'Like'

Would sinking the rails into the turntable deck help reduce the height?

I believe the correct term is 'progress' - as can be seen they have jacked up the engine shed and moved it to one side while it awaits to be moved to another location, and they appear to be digging the foundations for a new turntable! I see no evidence of axing the line.

I quite like my mechanical pocket watches, but it would be nice if they worked though... Possibly a tricky question, I'm not sure but the uniforms might have been mass produced at least I know later ones were. With the GWR it's seems likely they contracted a company to make uniforms to order for them. I think the same company also produced sheeting for goods wagons as well, uniforms were quite cheap to produce - in the days when some materials wasn't as expensive. Station personnel and on train staff would most likely have been the first employees to be issued uniforms since they have frequent contact with passengers. Then possibly much later drivers/firemen and other railway staff. Track gangs you can easily confirm they wasn't issued with anything but tools. I would have thought uniforms definitely wouldn't have been as common with other much smaller pre-grouping railway companies.

I tried to do a victorian figure although 1:1 scale. I always thought I remember reading somewhere that the first original GWR uniforms were dark green.

Another doodle, My mate driving his Pendo: Not an easy train to draw, all very curvy.

Sometimes I get really bored and doodle pictures of trains and other things on bits of paper next to my modelling area. I find slightly that I spend ages on things I realy like and people have commented that they look really good and they often recodnise who the person in the picture is. But I just tend to doodle the trains most of the time from memory and other times just looking at a picture I quite like. Here's pictures of the trains New -> Old: I did take Art & Design at college and frequently painted/drawn pictures of mainly trains, and other things too. The art teacher didn't like me or my pictures. This is one of the pictures of the trains I did at College I managed to get a picture of before finishing college: I'm slightly saddened because I think they discarded all my work when I finished college. I did keep 3 pictures I did but they're not of trains.

I seen her in real life really nice lady, very friendly. It was quite busy during her photo and signing sessions as she's very popular.

These tanks look interesting. Always nice to see this topic updated.... One day I may get back to my China Clay slurry tanks.

24th of August at Camborne

If there was an 'AWESOME' button I'd click it

Looks good Sort of like a Newquay Station type thing going on. Coopercraft are normally quite good, sometimes they take a little longer because they don't have some in stock and have to make parts/kits to replenish supplies. I found this when I ordered my nameplates and other little kits. But not really in a hurry like that though when I was cracking on with other stuff while waiting for the manufacturers/posty. I'm currently waiting on some model cars I ordered from Germany for my Motorail which are currently in the mail trekking across europe. The particular car model isn't available in the UK (market is lacking some quite common 70s/80s cars at the moment). But sort of similar situation ^ I bought Ratio canopies for my platform, but it's interesting to see the Wills ones. I think the Wills ones are a SR design but I'm not too sure. I'm planning on getting some Peco 'Manyways' for my island platform, I'll probably get one of their new Wooden kits to try. Should cover the massive blank gap on platform 2 & 3 Look forward to your next update Steve. Cheers, Reece