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On 19/09/2019 at 20:46, Long Line said:
Many thanks to everyone who came in whatever capacity and for all your comments support and feedback. We we're up 21% on last year so very pleased and are looking forwards to the challenges of our next event. A new website is coming soon at railexpoynton.co.uk which will give the details of what we can do on 5th & 6th September 2020 with an extended and improved venue!
Cheers on behalf of a long list of tired boys and girls.
Hi, could you please look at your messages as I have been trying to contact the Poynton team about an exhibition idea. Thanks, Stephen Wolstenholme (Atlantic Dock).
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This extract from a signalling diagram for the MDHB Riverside Branch shows the dock road (top), the dock lines, the route of the Overhead Railway (above them), a transit shed (left) and the Princes Dock engine shed that I hope to model. I may also include the separate MDHB workshop which was further to the right (south) - see next picture for this segment.
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On 04/05/2012 at 14:29, Tim Hale said:
I have managed to obtain just one complete set of Bernard Wright's excellent 'Bazzing around' series of articles however I am attempting to create a bibliography of Bernard's other seminal work in the old Model Railways - his 'Portrait of ......' locomotive classes (Jan+Feb 78 King Arthur)
I would greatly appreciate any recollections of Bernard's appearances in the Model Railways especially dates and issues the various Portraits and Bazzing articles.
Thank you
Tim
Did you ever complete this exercise please? They were great articles which have stood the test of time.
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4 hours ago, sb67 said:
Wow! where is that?
Steve.
I've just discovered this shop. They also do free tours to demonstrate other services such as etching, 3D etc. https://modelshop.co.uk/
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I've just discovered you! Fantastic to see the Bazzing Around article (which I have kept all these years) come to life in such an inspiring way.
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2 hours ago, montyburns56 said:
Thanks. Gordon Edgar's books are good too.
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Has anyone tried Redutex 3D self-adhesive texture sheeting please? I have seen the earlier thread some years ago, plus this useful image of the material used on the Kingfisher Wharf layout. This product could save days of work clay modelling.
https://redutex.com/en/0-1-scale/822-032ad111-cobblestone-8435570201137.html
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This is a useful little edited clip of sound effects at Liverpool docks. It's a pity it is so short but I can trace the longer source film easily.
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In 2001 Iain Rice asked, in his book Designs for Urban Layouts, 'why has the urban railway received such short shrift from modellers'? Things have improved a lot since then, but there is still some truth in the question. The idealised countryside where it never rains is still a common sight at exhibitions! American and Continental modellers seem to have modelled urban scenes more than UK ones, but in some cases - for example Germany and Switzerland - the results are a bit 'twee'.
The concept of Atlantic Dock was inspired by an actual location - East Princes Half Tide Dock in Liverpool - but it shares many of Iain Rice's thoughts. For example, he noted that seaport cities offer rich pickings for railway modellers, with dock lines of inset track diving off into a complex riverside jungle of quays, transit sheds, warehouses and goods yards. He identified paved track in granite sets as the signature of the urban/dock railway if ever there was one. And he emphasised the vertical scope of urban railways. Multi-level urban railways offer great variety where different railways meet or cross. In the case of Atlantic Dock, the intensive rapid transit of the Liverpool Overhead Railway contrasts with the shunting of dockside goods traffic below, movements to and from the inland BR depots, and the occasional passenger train on the Riverside Branch.
The Overhead is unique and instantly recognisable as Liverpool. But Atlantic Dock will also have other "signature items" that will convey the location and period. The elements that define the essential character of the dockside railway on the Mersey include the cobbles, the lamp posts, the high dock wall and gates, the signage on the transit sheds, massive warehouses, crossings, and of course the L&Y Pugs.
I also think that an eye-level viewpoint with a diorama approach involving a fairly fixed viewpoint will be very suitable for Atlantic Dock. I want people to view the scene across the layout from the quayside, rather than from above as a seagull. And practical considerations of space will make it essential to use buildings or part of buildings, such as transit sheds, to constrain viewing.
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Midland in Bristol
in 7mm+ modelling
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I will look out for this special issue! Congratulations on your new website too.