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Thought I might add this.

Thanks Steve, A quick one taken when I went into the railway room when I picked up the Bridge for the museum this morning. I'd left a curtain drawn back and the Grange was basking in sunlight. The musuem diorama continues. The hole is for the wherry.

For those of you wondering how the giant bridge is going, it progresses

Just a few more pix of the Kingsbridge-Slapton local

Remember chaps that this line is an extension of the Torbay line, not the line from Brent, therefore I'm working on the principal that the line was built to the same standards as the Kingswear branch and that coupled to some severe gradients after Dartmouth there was a need for powerful locos and shorter trains. (ie max 4-5 coaches and 12-15 wagons. (Strange that coincides with the size of the platforms and fiddleyard

Thank you very much Robin.

That would be great Many thanks.

Back to the railway. 45xx + B set on the Kingsbridge to Slapton local. and the 22xx on the branch bridge I must get some etched numberplates.

I've just invested in this http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-interfit-int103-cool-lite-fluorescent-head/p1011577, partly to take better pix of mey layout and friends layouts and also for my work at the Museum of the Broads. A first try using it

I haven't posted for a bit.

To a certain extent it is a generic stone bridge. If it is based on any of the Broads bridges it is the old stone bridge at Ludham bridge.

One reason for the lack of posts is that I've been involved in a project at the local museum where I volunteer. Building a Diorama of a wherry (a Norfolk Broads sailing barge) going under a low bridge. The wherry, which we already had, is to a scale of 1:24. Quite a change working in such a large scale. witness the size of a small prairie to the bridge.

Thanks Ian and I hope your layout goes well. I will be watching with interest.

Another small detail added

Whoops too late Nobody would normally get this close This is what you would normally see.

Thank You John. Just what i neeed. Although as the font size will be 3 I'll just type it out.

Amazing how adding something as small as a point lever can give a scene more life. As I'm doing a crossroads signpost does anyone out there know if the writing would have been all capitals or a capital for the first letter and then lower case.? thanks in advance for any help.

Nick I can't tell you quite what it pulls except to say when I took to my mate Dave's rather large layout Epsom it pulled 20 opens {some loaded with cast resin loads and others with cast stone loads (10 commandments)} with ease. Needless to say that is more than it's ever likely to pull on Wencombe. All I need to do is get the airbrush out and do some weathering. Not too sure whether (excuse the Pun) it will be subtle or rather filthy as I remember them trundling through Gloucester in the very early 60's. One thing I will do is get rid of the red inside motion as this will not be a Canton engine that's been breathed upon by Caerphilly.

A slightly early Christmas present for Wencombe.

Thanks for the nice comment Rugd1022. I have the power of the Hymeks and it is good to see that his photos even with diesels are still instantly recognisable as Ben Ashworth's.

A couple of pix trying to recreate two of Ben Asworth pictures hence B&W I know the scenery is not correct but loco type and stock is-ish. I think that Ben Ashworth produced some of the most atmospheric pictures of rural scenes.

That is a very good point. I will attend to it.

Not to Sure about that Kris, They look cleaner in the photo than in real life. And also we are supposed to be in the clean air of Devon.

At last I've done the gardens of the cottages

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