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Someone asked me if I could make a GWR Pagoda shelter in '0' gauge and to make it as authentic as possible!  As I make cut out card kits of Cornish Engine Houses and have made one or two pagodas in '00' in the past, I looked at the possibility of printing corrugated card.  As I had some sheets of various card and amongst them was a corrugated one, I designed the pagoda in kit form, scaled up fro 4mm to 7mm.  With great trepidation, I fed the shett into the printer and after three or four attempts, it worked!

The picture above is the finished model, placed on a makeshift platform, but I forgot to fix the fretwork on the roof!  This I have done by printing the fret, using OHP clear film.  The two downpipes are way too large, but that has now been remedied, shown on the second 'tryout' below.

I make these GWR Pagodas in 7mm scale, using corrugated card and are sold as a kit, with full instuctions.

An excellent footbridge (superb modelling) and a nice model of Bodmin Road (now Parkway). Any more pictures (on both topics), just love everything to do with the stations in Cornwall.

Many thanks, Mellangoose.  I also love modelling Cornish stations.  I recently made a model of the former station house at Helston, but my greatest love was the little station at St Agnes, which closed in 1963.  i made a static display of the station, which is in the St. Agnes Museum

Nice work. It is a great footbridge with a lot of pure GWR character. Your model captures it excellently.

 

I built a model of Bodmin Road back in the eighties as shown in the attached. My version is based on when the bridge was one colour all over so I built the iron work into the main structure. If nothing else these photos show how photography has moved on in the past 30 years or so. 

 

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Excellent Model of Bodmin Parkway!  You have captured it brilliantly.  A couple of years ago, I made a display of St Agnes station for the Museum there.  it depicted the station around 1950 and is a permanent fixture.  My nex project is of the same station, but in 'N' Gauge  it will be in two parts, going from the original single line as built in 1903, to the rebuilt layout from 1937.  Should be an interesting project for me, as not modelled in 2mm before, although I have already built the ststion and Goods Shed

The footbridge at Bodmin Parkway, in Cornwall is one of the finest of the GWR designs.  Made of wood and iron, it spans both tracks with opposing stair towers.  Itnot only gives access from the down platform to the up, but also provides access to the Bodmin & Wenford Railway.

Because of the intricate nature of this bridge, I decided to make a model. 

Made of card, designed and printed on my computer. it was created in three sections. 1. The central Span, consisting of the two sides with windows cut out and glazed, the Ironwork individually cut out and applied to each side.  the underside, made up of three sections and the roof in three sections.  2. The stair towers, which were cut out and the Ironwork applied the same way

Fitting the three sections together proved the most difficult, as getting the structure to sit correctly and square meant gluing together more or less as it will stand.

There have been some design changes since this model was made, so will post further.

The footbridge at Bodmin Parkway, in Cornwall is one of the finest of the GWR designs.  Made of wood and iron, it spans both tracks with opposing stair towers.  Itnot only gives access from the down platform to the up, but also provides access to the Bodmin & Wenford Railway.

Because of the intricate nature of this bridge, I decided to make a model. 

Made of card, designed and printed on my computer. it was created in three sections. 1. The central Span, consisting of the two sides with windows cut out and glazed, the Ironwork individually cut out and applied to each side.  the underside, made up of three sections and the roof in three sections.  2. The stair towers, which were cut out and the Ironwork applied the same way

The branch that ran from Gwinear Road to Helston closed to passengers in 1962. all that is left now at Helston is the platform and the Goods Shed, which acts as a community centre, the station site is now a sheltered housing complex.
Two years ago, I created a permanent display of St Agnes station, which resides in the Museum at St Agnes, I am now a member of the Helston railway project, which plans to re-open part of the original line, so I decided to make an 00 gauge model of the very large station at Helston

This is a view of the platform side, from the Helston end.

This is the view of the roadside, also from the Helston end

I decided to add lighting for a better effect and this shows a close up of the station entrance.

This is a view looking along the station from the Gwinear Road end. There are a few things to finish and tidy up, but as yet I'm not sure if it will be part of a layout, or just a single display item

I am also trying to get line drawings of St Ives and Bodmin General, so if anyone has any info on these two stations, I would be very grateful.