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Hi Jeff, i've been away from the forum for a while the Airfix kits have taken over for the time being, and I've been spending my time on other forums. The second viaduct is looking good. Once you put the tracked in it is going to look rather impressive.

Jonathan:

 

 

Hi Jeff, Have a good time. I am a civil servant working at the ground floor office of St Mark's House, across the footbridge from Stockton shopping centre, but will probably be moved to Darlington when the offices closes for good a year in October. It is a long way but we moved so that my late SWMBO could be nearer to her school. The drive back home is fantastic though even in winter. Never missed a day due to weather although have been late on one or two occasions.

 

Jonathan

Looks like you work a few hundred yards from me, I too work on Teesdale, over in Churchill house, and in sight of the worlds first ticket office. St. Johns crossing on bridge road. The birthplace of the railways. (let's see who disagrees! ;-) )

Al

 

Hi Al,

I'm going to stick to a smaller, curved viaduct. Plans already sketched out, and hope to start building it soon.

Pop round later in the month and see what's been achieved!

Jeff

Cheers Jeff, I'll take you up on that offer.

Why is it , when you have plent of time on your hands you have no baseboards to build on? I've just been given another week of R'n'R !!! Ah well I just suppose it will have to be another Airfix kit or two ;-)

Al

Hi Jeff,

Thinking about the 'spindly' type viaduct, you could draw the outline of the sides on paper then build up the frames using plastic angle.

To give it a bit of strength you could build the uprights out of brass angle.

Would it need to be straight though?

Al

Looking good Jeff. You don't need an excuse to build another one, isn't there a branch line in front of it?

P.S. the templates are being produced, in my current mental state I had forgotten about them, sorry. I'll have plenty of time to work on them though as the nice man with the sick notes has told me I can't go back to work for another two weeks!!! :-)

Al

 

 

 

The intended prototype structure is a real hybrid of construction materials, patching, repairs and presumably strengthening over its 110 years' service. I'll edit this post to include a photo link when I can find a decent one that shows the apparent random nature of the beast.

Hi Chard,

If you want a viaduct with mixed materials how about Yarm viaduct? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yarm_Viaduct.jpg

The Northern arches where it crosses the River Tees are stone, the rest of it is brick with stone 'details' and a couple of the arches have been strengthened by building new 'inner' arches out of brick. Oh and the guard rails and reinforcing plates are cast iron!

Al

 

 

By no means there yet, but getting there. Note SMP draped coquettishly over the top...

 

Nice work Chard, the proportions look spot on. There's nothing worse (to my eyes anyway) than a viaduct that's too low, where the railway would probably have built an embankment instead.

Al

Resistance is futile !

Have you got your braces caught on the garage door handle by any chance?

Excellent progress, only another few yards to go...

Just one slight issue though, I thought you were modelling the S&C, this looks more like East Anglia !!!

Just come back from a visit to Kirkby Luneside, and it looks even more impressive in the flesh, this layout is big!! A pair of curved viaducts will fit in perfectly ;-)

Thanks for the coffee Jeff, and apologies for the spanners I dropped in the works !

Al

Hi Jeff,

Curved viaducts can be built, it just takes a bit of planning, a shedload of plasticard and a lot of time, but the results are worth it...

This is one end of our Stockburn layout; 6ft Radius, 18" high, 7' (ish) long

(the rest of the layout features a station at the other end and a coliery exchange yard in the middle. It's not often you get a busy double track main line and non-stop shunting at the same time on an exhibition layout! - apologies for the shameless plug !!)

Al

Hi Jeff, i was just wondering, When you put the back scenes in are you planning on curving them in the corners to avoid 'corners in the sky' ?

Al

HI Jeff,

Progress indeed since I last looked, would have looked and posted earlier, but there's no wifi in North Tees !

I've located a couple of lengths of SMP track to 'get the ball rolling' which i can drop round if you like.

Al

 

 

No problem! I don't suppose you know anything about Marcway point geometry? Medium radius points will be 36", as for Peco Streamline. I wonder if anyone has any turnout templates on here? (if not I'll ring them and buy some).

 

Jeff

Hi Jeff, I know a chap not too far away from you who is using Templot to plan his new EM layout and would be more than willing to create a range of templates for you in return for a cuppa and a natter (milk, no sugar thanks!)

Did I read correctly that you are ripping out the current layout? What are your plans for that room?

Oops, deleted duplicate as posted twice for some strange reason!

Hi Jeff,

Having seen the scenery on your other layout 'in the flesh' I am looking forward to seeing this one as it develops. The room is looking rather impressive. You've managed to build a layout, and convert a garage in the time it has taken me to sort of come up with an idea for a track plan. I really do need to 'get my finger out' and do something constructive !

Al

Up the junction - Squeeze