7mm Corwen Road
- Thread starter LarryG
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Focalplane
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I agree with a number of your points made concerning the extension to Corwen from Llangollen. Carrog offers the traveler by car an excellent car park, café and the opportunity to ride into Llangollen if coming from the west. The prices for traveling on heritage railways has, in my opinion, always been reasonable but any excuse can and will be passed on to the customer these days. I don’t really see Corwen as a tourist destination if starting out from Llangollen.
Heritage railways with connections to Network Rail have the opportunity to accept day trips from afar. The West Somerset Railway benefits from this, as do others. Ruabon would make sense if the local authorities can get their heads around the idea. Gwynedd certainly did with the WHR in Porthmadog. A major boost to the town’s tourism is the result.
Heritage railways with connections to Network Rail have the opportunity to accept day trips from afar. The West Somerset Railway benefits from this, as do others. Ruabon would make sense if the local authorities can get their heads around the idea. Gwynedd certainly did with the WHR in Porthmadog. A major boost to the town’s tourism is the result.
LarryG
Western Thunderer
Woke up this morning, got out of bed, with the signalbox in my head......I decided to block up the locking room door....
...and build a fresh door into the other end. Laser cut is fun to work with...
The new brickwork was then painted to roughly match...
The door was given cream panels to make it easier to be seen after darkness. Seeing as the back of the box would be visible, I decided to give the whole of the brickwork a refurb...
...and build a fresh door into the other end. Laser cut is fun to work with...
The new brickwork was then painted to roughly match...
The door was given cream panels to make it easier to be seen after darkness. Seeing as the back of the box would be visible, I decided to give the whole of the brickwork a refurb...
LarryG
Western Thunderer
As often as not, I do not know what I am going to do with my day until the old mind goes into 'planning' mode around 7am. This morning, I decided it would be a new double track bridge. An hour was spent plotting out the arch on Plastikard before cementing four rows of embossed bricks over it. The rest was just a case of surrounding the arch with Wills moulded Random Stone. It is a simple affair like the one at Carrog although the shape of the arch is copied off the bridge at Ruabon station. After finishing the arches innards, it had to be butchered becasue it fouled the external weather tunnel. All that remain now is to decorate it with corner stones and paint....
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LarryG
Western Thunderer
After fitting the bridge permanently, some scraps of timber were sawn to form a path to the down platform...
The path was then covered with 1/16" cork Evostuck in place and shamfered for drainage....
An embankment former was screwed in position after dishing it to leave space for my fingers when switching points...
A scrap of vinyl grass was glued to the former and the cess with Evostik.....
It was stuffed with crumpled newspaper before the heatgun moulded it to shape for gluing to the path....
Two strips of Slaters embossed brick were painted engineering blue in fast drying cellulose and the cement courses added in Humbrol matt grey...
The outer-facing wall was weathered before being attached to the wood....
The rest of the vinyl grass was added to complete the basic earthworks. Decoration to follow....
The path was then covered with 1/16" cork Evostuck in place and shamfered for drainage....
An embankment former was screwed in position after dishing it to leave space for my fingers when switching points...
A scrap of vinyl grass was glued to the former and the cess with Evostik.....
It was stuffed with crumpled newspaper before the heatgun moulded it to shape for gluing to the path....
Two strips of Slaters embossed brick were painted engineering blue in fast drying cellulose and the cement courses added in Humbrol matt grey...
The outer-facing wall was weathered before being attached to the wood....
The rest of the vinyl grass was added to complete the basic earthworks. Decoration to follow....
LarryG
Western Thunderer
The garden point lever...
The ash looks a bit chunky while the PVA is drying out, but it will be filed to fine dust afterwards. The more I 'do' at this end, the more the loop line east of Oldham springs to mind...
There will be a crossing made of old sleepers here. Does anyone do something laser cut? On second thoughts, I could utilize plywood.
The ash looks a bit chunky while the PVA is drying out, but it will be filed to fine dust afterwards. The more I 'do' at this end, the more the loop line east of Oldham springs to mind...
There will be a crossing made of old sleepers here. Does anyone do something laser cut? On second thoughts, I could utilize plywood.
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These on e bay, and skytrex do some, But I think these are metal
These on e bay, and skytrex do some, But I think these are metal
LarryG
Western Thunderer
Because the goods yard is sprawling, the goods shed could go on any of the three sidings. I wasn't altogether satisfied with trains disappearing from view prematurely, after all the shed is only 14 feet long. So it was decided to position the shed further away from the running line.
The siding closest to the edge of the baseboard is on an incline, which means the ground is on a slope, so the shed had to have no less than four courses of bricks removed on the back wall (tapering to the front wall) so that the building would stand truly vertical. A siding was then shortened near the loading bay and new cork laid. That was as far as things got on Thursday. We have been in Manchester all today....
The siding closest to the edge of the baseboard is on an incline, which means the ground is on a slope, so the shed had to have no less than four courses of bricks removed on the back wall (tapering to the front wall) so that the building would stand truly vertical. A siding was then shortened near the loading bay and new cork laid. That was as far as things got on Thursday. We have been in Manchester all today....
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