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    The booking office. We have used the new Bachmann modern station bits (clock and ticket machine). The litter bin and seats are from Ten Commandments. The station signage is also from them. They provided a very efficient printing service (usual disclaimer) using the Regional Railways style. Must tidy up around the door area and fit some door handles!

    Through the black hole.

    New 'Cornish' Hornby 153. Performs very well.

    The old factory has been 'sold for redevelopment'. Heaven knows what will replace it!

    Signal gantry built to the Tony Sissons method as on Widnes VY. The signals are a temporary mixture of N gauge (yes!) Fulgurex Swiss heads and Eckon feathers. the will be replaced with fully working scratched ones in brass, as per the MRJ article a few years ago.

    The Captain's weathering on the shark. It seems to have dropped at one end. The BB springing units need tweaking.

    The Captains weathered pair!


    The Captain's 14XX used for the Dawlish Donkey preserved steam runs

     
    'Cornish' Hornby 153

     

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    The Dawlish Donkey summer charter visits Matford. This was a public service that ran between Exeter and Newton Abbot during the summer months a few years ago.
    The lovely little 14XX belongs to CK. This will run on the layout as a shunt and release move to bring some added and unusual interest!
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    New backscene will be needed. Much 'squaring up' and 'bedding-in' to do. It was all thrown back together in a hurry for the show. The photos were taken by David Brandreth of the Scalefour Society at the 2010 Exeter show a few weeks ago.
     
    A couple of general views of layout from buffer stops, looking towards fiddle yard (aka Exeter City Basin Jct):


     
    View of the station area, with Class 170 and 159 in evidence, clearly SWT are holding sway at the moment! The Class 170s were seen at St Davids for a short while on Waterloo services - that's all the excuse we need to run one on Matford!

     
    Class 08 passes evidence of disused oil depot and a folorn PW hut, which is unlikely to see much use by Network Rail anymore. The brambles and hut are a new addition to the layout, the brambles were created using fine horsehair and some Noch scenics purchased in Holland.

     
    The ex-Central Trains Class 158 waits to come off depot and join the main line, whilst the 08 shunts the scrap metal siding (although the wagons behind the brake van appear to be unusually early from the period and were loaned by a certain Captain of this parish!):

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    Preparing for Scaleforum.

    By Re6/6,

    With S4um looming rapidly, there's still a bit to do. The latest structure is the loco fueling point, replacing the old adapted Knightwing kits which have passed their best. The new one re-uses the original roof and a couple of the salvagable small cabinets. It's made from a sheet of PCB with fine angle brass H-section soldered on.
     

     
    Still to be 'planted' and 'vegitated'
     

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    A couple of new arrivals. A Bachmann 150 in Regional Railways livery to be adapted with 'Wessex' decals over th RR ones. (As seen in Exeter in 2004) There will also be an 'Arriva Trains' blue 150 set shortly.

     
    Cornish liveried Hornby 153 will compliment (when finished!) the Hurst 153 conversion in pretty pink.
    ...Both still to be P4ed.
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    New sand drag in the bay platform. Brambles need trimming! The little bit of vertical rail in the ballast is a stop in case a unit overruns..or an operator not paying attention! It will be incorporated in the framework for the double red stop lamp, based on the one at St Ives.
     
    New replacement fencing made from brass square tube and fine dressmakers mesh fabric. The grass along the bottom of the fence was done with the 'Grassmaster' using the cone accessory.

     
    Anti vermine netting fitted. As at Cam and Dursley Station

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    A few more images of Matford, taken at the Exeter show on 5/6 June 2010:
     
    General view looking towards buffer stops, Class 158 is ready to depart towards Exeter St Davids and Cardiff, the Class 170 waits it's turn in the carriage siding before working a service to Waterloo:

     
    Looking through the 'rat hole' under Mutton Lane towards the station area, some shunting is in progress, the Captain's favourite shunting area for playing with 3 links! Scrap, oil and bitumen traffic are handled in the sidings behind the photographer's location:

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    The first baseboard has now been built for one of the 'generic' scenery sections. It has worked out very well indeed. Pink 50mm polyfoam insulation board was used, (available from B&Q at about £20 for a pack of four [1200mm x 500mm]). 100mm deep 4mm thick birch-faced ply was glued to the long sides with 'No More Nails' type solvent free grab adhesive and 9mm marine ply was used for the 'FREMO' style ends, with patternmakers dowels fitted.
    Underneath transverse bracing was fitted (6mm thick x 50mm deep) to stop any torsional twisting
     
    The polyfoam is dense enough to take 4" x no12 screws which would grip sufficiently to allow the side/end panels to be screwed tight enough whilst the adhesive takes. This saves a lot of clamping up. The bonus with this type of construction is its lightness. Upper scenery, embankments, contours will be made from the conventional white polystyrene, the sort available from builders merchants in 50/100mm thickness 2440x1220mm size sheets as it's a lot cheaper.
     
     
     
    The next one that will be made will built allowing for an 'under rail' type bridge. Not quite worked that out yet!
     
    All in all, I'm very pleased with the final thing. I got the idea from an old issue of MRJ, which showed the construction of the baseboards for Gordon Gravett's 'Pempoul'.
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    Here are a couple of snaps of a typical FREMO set-up. 'Hölle' in P87 was seen at Utrecht last year, with a known reprobate playing trains!
    This bit is only about a 20th of the whole project! There are interchangable sections which are cleverly 'scenically blended' This one was the best that I've ever seen with such good scenic continuity. Some that I've seen in the past have looked like a patchwork quilt!
     
    We would devise our own profile for baseboard end plates, rather than using the 'laid down' profile. Basically it will allow us to lengthen/shorten the layout by making interchangable generic scenic boards.
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    Superelevation strips

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    You can see the 'run out' of the Tillig superelevation strip. It starts at a point halfway along the transition curve and works very well in high speed 'push along' mode! If you are going to try this, when gluing the track to the strip with PVA glue (plenty needed), a lot of weight will be needed during the drying time, as the inner edge has a tendancy to lift if you don't!
     
    Meanwhile a few more snaps of progress. More edging fitted and painting.
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    The viaduct

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    The viaduct that will become the shortened version of the 'Ouse Valley Viaduct'. We'll be adding the ballustrading and cut the voids from the supports. (if we can!)
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    More work has been done with the balustrades on board 4. They have been refitted, filled, smoothed and sprayed in undercoat to be 'photographically proved'
     
    The 'proving' has been useful in showing up all the imperfect finishing.
     
    Normally this would have probably been OK for 'normal viewing distances' but not for 'cruel' camera close-ups which are now such a part of out hobby nowadays!
     
    The new visitor arrived last week which will be used for our 'blue/grey' operating period. It will also be used on a mixed consist with an original umber and cream
    set as was the case for a short period in the late 60s.
     

     

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    Platforms

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    Looks like that it's been there from the early days, judging by the brickwork looking unaltered.
     
    The first pic suggests that the original finished near the lamp hut.
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