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I'm lucky enough to have my late father's binocular visor thing that he used for fly tying. Pretty much the same as an optivisor. That and an strategically adjusted anglepoise lamp clone help a lot. An alternative strategy for out of position working on the dark nether regions of old Italian motorcycles is his old 'magnifly' set of very strong glasses and a climbers head torch. I used to borrow SWMBO's torch but as I now sometimes forget to return it she bought me not one but two (Gritin) of my own for Xmas. One for the garage and one for the loft where the layout is.

I have. Probably why I ordered what I did. A senior moment 🙂

D'oh. The answer to my question was staring me in the face. Even in monochrome this is obviously a two colour livery. Acknowledgments to Ned Williams.

I have. Plus a couple of others that give it a mention.

Indeed. Wombourne station seems grandiose, yet on the plan, the platforms beyond the footbridge are shown as timber construction. Until I got the plan, the station building being almost on the end of the surviving brick platform seemed odd. We quite often go for a walk or cycle down there. Last time (before I found the plan) I did some brick course and slab counting together with pacing out to get an idea of dimensions. We also found what I think is the remains of the base of a lamp. Sorry for the thread drift. I've put a photo of my progress so far in my other thread if anyone is interested. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/182768-introduction/

Thanks for the welcome folks. Finally making some progress.

[1] The 1914 plan I have shows the goods yard at Wombourn with two sidings, whereas most photos available show only one. Plus the signal box ended up larger and in a slightly different location. So I'm doing my own 'scenario' with two sidings for more interest and box as shown in 50's photos so I can attempt to model it. The plan includes detailed drawings of the station building and waiting room so I will stick with those.

I have one of these on order but am now having a crisis of confidence about the livery I chose. I am modelling a station on the Kingswinford branch of the GWR Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton railway. Opened in 1925 and passenger services (mostly SRMs) ceased in 1932. I guessed 'simplified chocolate and brown' would be right, but am wondering now. It's proving an interesting project, but having a .jpg (from the National Archives) of the original 1914 GWR drawing of Wombourn(e) station has been a boon.

Having just joined I ought to do a short introduction. Returning to railway modelling after 60 years prompted by moving to a bungalow with a large, easily accessible loft. The plan is to model Wombourn station on a branch of the GWR Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line in OO scale. Made a start, but "we're going to need a bigger baseboard" if I replicate the whole section from the road bridge to beyond the goods yard. Might have to 'compress' the platform area and goods loop. I have a .jpg of the 1913 plans from the National Archives which is a great help. Searching the forum I see several references to people with an interest in this forgotten corner of a pre Beeching world. We often go for a walk there and a cuppa in the station building which is now a cafe.