rosetheromani

But if it is steam punk, and meant to be aimed at a different audience why oh why, did they stick with analogue technology, they should have embraced digital technology, and used it to redesign their basic four wheeled chassis so that it could hold a decent sized DCC chip and a small speaker. Have cogs that could move things, who knows things like a revolving parasol at the minimum, made steam sounds and more, have amazing lighting techniques. Then made the chassis modular so you could easily customize it. Think out of the box. To me this is not enough. Made me think, though, gives a whole new meaning to its my railway. To me it just says that Hornby is just trying to use the old tooling and that means disaster to me for Hornby. Let us see in the future if it was a clever decision or a lead weight for Hornby

The jig itself sounds like it is worth the money alone. I wonder if the jig will work with aluminium foil to make corrugated iron. Currently, I use a screw to do it.

Bricks would be carried in a hod, a pole like a broom pole, with a triangular shaped top, two sides and a back, carried on one's shoulder with one hand and most probably a cigarette in the other hand. Definitely a watch man's hut and brazier, in the 50's quite often a nissen hut on site as store or mess hut. And that point raises the issue, if it was deemed necessary to build a station building in WW2, would they not just plonked down a nissen hut. Much quicker to build and in plentiful supply. Also in the 50's I remember mechanical hods, like a self contained conveyor belt designed to hold bricks.

Marshfield is mentioned in this post http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/122434-gwr-station-footbridge-or-subway/

I forget exactly when it was published but the Welsh Railways Research Circle published a supplement to its journal, the Welsh Railway Archive, all [?] about Marshfield.  I know that I have discussed Marshfield with at least one RMwebber but whether it was on or off the forum I do not recall.  You could do worse than interrogate the search facility!

 

Chris

There has been a few topics where Marshfield has been mentioned. One was discussing the footbridge and the other about the pit prop depot there, if I remember rightly

I ask this as, I'm sure Hitachi has built trains for Japanese use that included their air powered tilt technology to run on the 3ft 6in lines. Over to the techs as to why not for the UK?

Hitachi based tilt technology is used by Queensland Railways, again 3'6" gauge, but their World Record Speed is only 210km, operational maximum speed is 160km. The maximum operational speed of the JR Shikoku 8000 series is 130km. So maybe it is a cost over any additional speed that might be a factor.

The Guard gets off each and every train to  operate the ground frame.

The points are usually set for the Liskeard to Moorswater route, if the train is  one scheduled to call at Coombe Junction station than the train runs into and out of the station before the ground frame is operated.

If no station call at Coombe, the train stops immediately clear of the points, blocking the crossing and then the ground frame is operated.

 This is shown in "The Least Used Station" series by Geoff Marshall (oops spelt name as Marsh in original post)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu2_cl80RSQ. Along with a look at all of the facilities of Coombe Junction.

I went to Camden Town once and decided to venture outside the Tube station in Punky times, I didn't venture very far, I believe it has changed though recently.

I loved Camden in the 70's - one of the best music venues in the whole of Britain was the former London and North Western Railway Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, saw Joe Strummer before he was in the Clash play there as a support act. Yes a nice and seedy area. So Punk and the railways combined sort of.

As you mention Swansea, I am going to assume you are modelling the South Wales Main Line somewhere in South Wales.  West of Patchway, all of the smaller stations IIRC had footbridges, even Pilning which was up an embankment, as did Newport High Street, only Cardiff General (Central if you are modern image) had a subway.  Not sure about Llanwern, and I think Marshfield used the road bridge or a sleeper crossing.

If I remember rightly, the main line at Marshfield was 4 tracks. I think you are right that the access was from the road bridge over, which I think had brick abutments with an iron girder bridge and earthen ramps for the road to access the bridge, as the land there is very flat. On the other side of the road to the station building, there was a reen (drainage channel) running parallel to the road, everything round there is straight lines, and I think the railway track might be below sea level. There was a pub, that was sort of in the Station courtyard, I think. My memory is vague, because I am trying to remember back to the period from 1957 to 1968. So a few years ago now.