I've also started work again on the buildings for the Pennine Area Group's layout based on Lightcliffe, circa 1930.
There've been a couple of false starts due to information coming to hand after work had started, mainly concerning the level differences in the main station buildings which dropped away to the rear.
Those buildings are now almost complete, but I do need to add some ventilators to the roof of the toilet block and signs and poster boards also need to be added to the platform frontage.
The signal box is completed, but doesn't yet have a platform to sit on and the stone staircase for the footbridge is being painted.
The Bradford bound platform is also a second attempt. I'd almost finished the first but wasn't happy with it - one of the baseboard joints runs across the platform and the first attempt was built in two pieces but the join was too unsightly so I decided to have another go, this time making the platform in one peice with the intention of drilling through it and the baseboard to insert location dowels which will then be covered over with the slips that I'm using to create the flagged plaform surface.
The next building, which I've just finished marking out, is what appears to be some sort of store/warehouse on the Bradford bound platform. Again, this has been a tricky building to work out. From the platform side and the Bradford end it looks simple - plain end wall and frontage with a door and two windows - but when a photo of the Halifax end of the building finally came to light it showed a door which was on a different level to the doors leading onto the platform. Yup, another split level building!
Unfortunately, that photo only shows half of the end wall ... and more frustratingly no photos have yet come to light showing the non-platform side of the building. I've managed to get hold of an aerial photo via Historical England which indicates that there might have been a loading area, but other than that it's guesswork as to what that side of the building looks like ... but it needs building so I've finally taken the bull by the horns and started work on it.
Some very unexciting pictures showing the marking out of the sides and ends are attached, as are a few showing the other buildings already constructed.
Marking out for platform frontage.
Best guess for the non-platform frontage.
Halifax (left) and Bradford (right) ends.
Main station buildings