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That's starting to look pretty good. Just a few comments to polish things off...? I would lower the platforms. They would be quite low in early days. If you look closely at the interior shots, there appears to be a step down at all the doorways from the then current platform height - typical of early stations that have have their platforms raised. When the station was first built there would likely have been level access. Also, looking at the interior view after the track was lifted, the girders appear to protrude from the station walls a bit lower than you have drawn and still be visible right down to platform level, as if the stone side walls were built between the girders, not covering them entirely, All doors and windows along the side should have flat tops not rounded. Sorry for being picky!

It takes a lot of imagination, but I suspect from the aerial photos that the high glazed area at the apex of the roof didn't extend all the way from the end screens and the very ends of the roof, behind the end screens were a bit lower. Also, the east end screen profile looks lower than the west end. This image shows the way the west end sticks up above the roof best. Not sure what the dark patch in the middle of the roof is though - maybe a repair works of some kind. This is absent from the other aerial images. This photo also appears to show a distinct 'crease' where the roof changes angle. Another thing to be aware of, this early photo shows taller ornaments - maybe lamps? on the end towers - and a flag pole - and the ground level part of the facade looks different to later photos too. Notice the doorways are arched and there are 3 windows set in a solid (stone?) screen. This station is a real can of worms!

Britain From Above has a few distant images of the station, but the resolution is very poor. One suggests a strong shadow behind the facade, but not much else SPW019936 SCOTLAND (1927). Dundee, general view, showing King William IV Dock and Tidal Harbour. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north. | Britain From Above SPW019937 SCOTLAND (1927). Dundee, general view, showing Earl Grey Dock, King William IV Dock and Tidal Harbour. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north. | Britain From Above SPW019939 SCOTLAND (1927). Dundee, general view, showing Earl Grey Dock, King William IV Dock and Tidal Harbour. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north. | Britain From Above SPW042541 SCOTLAND (1933). Dundee, general view, showing Victoria and Camperdown Docks and Dundee Law. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west. | Britain From Above

and this

have you seen these?

Just a thought, but does the post-ww2 front screen follow more closely the overall roof profile? Comparing old and new photos earlier in this topic suggest the new screen is lower than the old one.

Have you looked at maps on the National Library of Scotland site. I think the have high resolution plans with interior detail in the town maps series.

The Midland borrowed M&GN tank loco(s) for a while, operating the Wirksworth branch IIRC - not sure if they ever got to Derby on a regular basis. I think the furthest west that proper M&GN trains got on a regular basis was Nottingham. I think some S&DJR locos were built at Derby, so would be seen there - if only briefly.

Not if the 40-odd pages on the Rails Terrier and the ones on the Hornby Terrier topics are anything to go by

The obsession with getting things absolutely right is very unhealthy IMHO. Much safer to model a line for which you can become the only real expert. The Hull & Barnsley is probably getting close - Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast or some other obscure line that almost no one has even heard of might be even safer. Or some obscure Siberian line in the 1950s when anyone taking photos or information might not live to tell the tale, even if they could ever get that close?

Thanks, that makes the photos much easier to understand.

Could you publish a track diagram or scale plan of the layout please?

Bute Road/Cardiff Bay is another one - been continuously in a derelict state for many years

Liverpool Central was being demolished around the last train services

2 different bridge designs might be interesting and appropriate. The siding could be an original, rickety wooden or iron bridge and the main line upgraded at some point to steel girders.

Her's an interesting bit of pointwork from Sweden. I thought single blade turnouts went out with the Ark, but this one was in existence between the wars. No exact date though.

The Nucast kit is available again from South East Finecast and Branchlines. Might be a better bet.

We should consider ourselves lucky they weren't based on this one

Sorry, its a foreign one! Brand new Standard Pullman trolleybus bodies for Chile on temporary bogies

Sorry to be pedantic, but can't be Clay Cross, which had an overbridge. Maybe Pye Bridge?

Yes, I agree though the cutting is very, very deep, so the road could well be behind the wall in the film and the buildings are slightly back from the edge of the cutting so they might not be visible from the angle of the camera. Looking at a recent OS map the contours suggest a similar topography to the film whereas the south portal goes under a really tall hill.

The south portal of Bradway Tunnel is pretty inaccessible, whereas a road ran next to the north portal on the east side. Can't find a photo though. It was rural then but built up now.

That suggestion seems very warm. Old maps show a straight section of track just before the south portal of the tunnel and a PW hut on the up side. Looking at recent images the land around the south portal looks a bit high to be the one in the film. Could it be the north portal of Bradway tunnel? that was on a curve but I can't find any photos. In any event, the station at the end of the film might well be somewhere else altogether. No guarantee the train came out of the same tunnel.