MrWolf

That is seriously impressive and what a great way not to be held to ransom by oil producing countries. No millions wasted on idiot fences either. What really is noticeable is how clean and tidy everywhere is. Strange. Are you sure that it isn't just a time slip?

I'm not going to overload your thread with pictures especially as half a dozen people seem to claim ownership of some of the images (There must be a lot of 120 year old photographers still busy!) But some useful examples to have a hunt for re your halt model are: Halts with staircases from a road bridge: Avoncliffe Appleford Blaisdon Creech St Michael Defiance Laira Long Sutton & Pitney North Filton Northolt Pans Lane Pebworth Thornford Bridge Halts with fenced ramps from a road bridge: Brimscombe Bridge Dockyard (Devonport) Donyatt Goonbell Ilton Melyncourt Mithian Towersey Wolf's Castle. That should keep you busy a while.

I think Tesco and Heinz started a price war over baked beans, so maybe you can afford your doomsday supplies sooner than you think?

Challenge accepted!

Pre 1980 model, before style and quality were replaced with arrogance and entitlement.

I doubt that you would be able to keep up with the kind of boiler that needs a chimney like the one in your model with a wheelbarrow. Below is Leicester Abbey pumping station. Admittedly it's a little grander than yours. The tall building houses four huge beam engines and the lower building housed a bank of Lancashire boilers to keep it all running constantly. Near the fence you can make out the inset narrow gauge track and points which was used for bringing in coal, oil and spare parts through those archways and taking ash out. You can see one of the tip cars top right. Prototypical enough I'd say. 🤔 Picture: TripAdvisor Boiler array in the middle building with the clerestory roof, taken from the stoking room (front one with the arches) Picture: History of Leicester

Some halts had signal box style steps down from a bridge. First set coming down from the bridge to a small landing, followed by another to platform level. Other halts had a long inclined footpath coming down behind the platform. I'll see if I can find some examples in my books.

Scheiß Haus perhaps?

It's definitely taking shape though Chris and I do like the narrow gauge tub line. You do realise that manufactures warranty doesn't cover the printer being shot at?

Have a look at what is on offer via eBay before stressing about absolute perfection with thine own creations .... Some sellers have, er, somewhat lower standards than you.

I am literally waiting for paint to dry again, but this time it's white paint on the crossing gates and another stack of salvaged sleepers. One other job is last weekends car boot find, an old Dinky BMW which has a little electro mechanical device to make the indicators flash left or right. It probably hasn't worked for fifty years, so it's surgery time! Luckily the body is screwed together. In the background I have fitted the sidecar chassis to the Autocraft bike and applied some black paint. Also on the bench is a John Day Models Humber Vogue, a car which has a family connection from the thirties, so it will be duck egg blue with black wings.

That's pretty much how it works (allegedly, according to smug bloggers who have probably never done a real days work) success breeds success, good things attract good things. Although I'm not holding out any hope for my neighbour's stolen mountain bike...

One common issue with 3d prints, resin and white metal is that the quality, or lack of it can vary wildly, but those RTI models are very nice. It could well be possible to mount one of their cattle truck bodies onto that Bedford OL truck you have.

Try having an eBay search for Corgi Trackside Guy pantechnicon. Lots of choices.

Sorry about that, so much for the "available to order" then! It's an unfortunate consequence of the rise of RTP that so many useful kits and components have disappeared. It's taken me two years to find a GWR pattern yard oil lamp, nobody does one since Dart ran out of stock. A bit of patience and £3 off eBay, so you never know.

That's why I had suggested a cattle truck, on the backscene side of the bridge, blotting out the backscene join and disguised perhaps by a skinny tree on the bank. Photo: Heritage machines. Or for an even bigger viewblocker, a pantechnicon. (Plainer liveries are available!) Photo: The movers and storers show.

https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/springside-sprv54.html Currently out of stock here, but worth hunting for one if you want a period cattle truck. A tree or two on the embankment will help disguise the dead end at the backscene, it worked well on the Warren Branch thread.

Thanks for posting your picture, now I know that I need to find 49 sleepers for a full load plus how to stack and secure them. A full load should protect the flimsy stakes as well. I won't be going in for much weathering either as the wagon would be virtually brand new in my time period.

Finally I have fitted the hinge components and everything lines up. Don't look too hard, there's some fettling to be done yet. As suggested by the instructions, I've substituted etched upper hinge pins for split pins taken from some screw couplings that I didn't have room to build as sprung. I've tested everything against the track and all is still at the right height, so I'm happy with that. Is this what is meant by "Never go to bed angry" ?

Looking good, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who takes a sideways move into wagon building for a bit of inspiration or just good old avoidance!

Importantly, you at least knew that it's one of ours!

Sleeper wagon has had a coat of paint after a bit of fettling. Whilst the paint is drying, perhaps I can get back to the level crossing....

That coincides with the livery change to the small letter GW in the left-hand corner doesn't it?

XP , if I remember right denotes express passenger, E being used for Engineering, (so we get the US navy type of abbreviation.) The GWR cattle wagons built after 1900 were 11ft wheelbase.

Only if they are set up with power brakes so that they can travel in passenger trains or express goods. The bars are there to prevent the W irons distorting under heavy braking. Non fitted wagons don't have this problem. I remember having a similar discussion with @Bluemonkey presents....on his thread as we were both working on earlier W1 diagram cattle wagons, some of which were rebuilt with vacuum brakes to diagram W5. These were the old Cooper Craft kits which are no longer produced.