Edmund Kinder

5 hours ago, Rowsley17D said:

 

Nice station building, based on Hellifield I assume?

Yes, that's correct.  I tried to imagine what the architect who had designed Hellifield would have done at a smaller site.  The width and height are as Hellifield, and I've made the length shorter.

Long Meg Sidings 2002

Appleby North 2002

Hello Fred

From the information I have, the only Portal coach that made it into blue/grey was the Brake Second Corridor, Diagram 2126.  I understand that these Blue/Grey variants managed to survive until the early 70's  

Not my photographs, and these may have appeared elsewhere.  Clapham, Bentham and Arkholme signalboxes situated between Settle Junction and Carnforth

Not my photograph, and I'm not sure where I got it.  Giggleswick Signalbox in the late 60's.

Hellifield South Junction 1990/91

Horton Box out of use 1990/91, not long before the fire that destroyed it.

Settle Station signalbox 1990/91 out of use, and before preservation.

I had a real push last year to build working Alan Gibson and MSE signals for my layout.  Some of the examples shown below.  I'd been sitting on most of these unmade kits for 15 years.

5 hours ago, CraigC said:

Hi Edmund,

 

Looking at creating a retaining wall, admired your pictures above. The 4th picture of the tunnel mouth and wall, did you mount the Wills sheets to wood or did you use another method? The end result looks fantastic! Any other advice you could provide would be appreciated.

 

Regards Craig

Hi Craig

Thanks for the feedback.  As you can see, the hill area is a made up of a lattice of insulation board, and the bits in between are filled with polystyrene.  On top of this is modroc bandage painted brown and then Woodland scenics scatter on the part with the sheep and barn.  The area around the tunnel mouth is carpet felt dyed with Railmatch Doncaster Green. The tunnel mouth made from Wills sheets was fixed on to the 9mm ply that carries the trackbed.  The first picture below shows a very early stage of construction before the tunnel mouth was made and the former's for the scenery were made.  I'd take the 9mm ply over the whole board linked to this one and then I reduced the trackbed area to a length that was about an inch wider each site of the track.  This was what I fixed the tunnel mouth onto.  the first picture below is taken from a very early stage in construction and shows what I did with the ply base.

The next 2 pictures below are from different stages of construction.

Hope this is of use.  Any other questions, let me know.

Best Wishes

Edmund

An example of a lightly weathered "Peak" on my layout.  I attempted to keep the weathering to a minimum as the locomotive is supposed to be only 6 months to a year old in the period in which the layout is normally based.

The weathering was applied with an Iwata airbrush using the methods shown by Tim Shackleton in his first "Right Track" weathering DVD

Jeff

If you're interested, on my layout, I scratch built one of the Midland signal boxes and mated one-and-a-half Ratio kits together for the other.

For the windows, I used the Churchward Models etched brass examples as I felt the Ratio glazing bars were too thick.  This, I think makes a huge difference.

The scratch built example(well had a Ratio roof):

The kitbashed example (I also added windows to the rear).  Under construction and then finished:

Best wishes

Edmund

Hi Jeff

With regard to the windows, this is a picture of the Bill Bedford etched brass versions (as mentioned by Rowsley17D) in my own MR goods shed I scratch-built a few years ago, based on drawings from Lazonby.  Kirkby Stephen goods shed is the longer 5-wagon variant (as you've modelled), and had different windows to the others on the Settle Carlisle so these etches may not be suitable.

Anyway, I've been following your post, and I think your modelling is superb.  It really does convey a sense of place and atmosphere.

Best wishes

Edmund

On 16/03/2017 at 20:18, Physicsman said:

Neil, here's a couple more pics from the book quoted in the previous post.

 

Jubilee approaching Ais Gill summit and Compound at Lunds viaduct. Consistent 6 foot again. Maybe I should just "bite the bullet", but do as Jonathan (Rowsley) suggested earlier and sprinkle some different texture/colour (I think I have some 2mm Carrs ash ballast) to add a bit of contrast.

 

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Of course, once I've painted the between the rails, this discussion may be irrelevant - as contrast will then be very evident!

 

Jeff

Hi Jeff

Whilst looking amongst my various scans, I found this colour picture of Mallerstang in 1967 that may help you to determine the contrast between ballast at the site you're modelling.

With my own S & C based layout, I used much too dark ballast to begin with and have tried in vain to weather it to make things lighter.  On reflection, I should have started with a much lighter base shade and then darkened patches.

Best wishes

Edmund

I'm so excited I simply can't contain myself, I've just been informed of a new arrival due for delivery on Friday .................... No, not a baby, this had a much much longer gestation period, four years to be exact! Its the Stanier Mogul 42969 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whooooooooooooopppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

 

My only concern now is that its taken so long it could easily arrive in BR Blue, large logo and with a TOPS No!

Hi Mike

You may have seen this clip on YouTube already. If not, it's interesting for your forthcoming purchase as it  shows Stanier Mogul 42959 on a southbound local at Hellifield in 1965.  I'm guessing it's probably come off the Morecambe branch at Settle Junction, but I stand to be corrected of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KnXaPN1Jl0&index=1&list=LLY0ySSU7i5uhEa-J5uxIZvA

The Mogul appears at 1:09

Best wishes

Edmund

But until we had the diagram we didn't know - and it's best not to guess. Equally there isn't a list of spares so even with that diagram as drawn  it's not 100%. Additionally lever 10 could also work the distant on the goods - it's not marked as fixed so the jury is still out.

 

If the diagram is from the Swift collection then it should be taken with a small pinch of salt, they contain numerous mistakes unfortunately - for example the slot 37 is shown on a single lead and it's obvious from the photos that this was double and would almost certainly be drawn as such given the sidings are drawn and these aren't on the running lines.

 

 

However we digress, back to Steves excellent modelling - we've given Mike Edge the information and he can decide how he wants Steve to model it.

Hi

Just to add a little more information on the diagram.  I scanned it from a book called "Stations and Structures of the Settle Carlisle" by VR Anderson & G K Fox.  On the page that has the diagram it reads "Signalling diagram based on information for 1973".  So I'm guessing this was the diagram in its final form just before closure of Petterill Bridge Junction box.

Best Wishes

Edmund