Work has progressed on Love lane today. The track plan has been finalised and is how we believe Peter Cavalier would have intended it to develop; this is based on conversations with Peter together with notes written by him on the baseboards. The station is on a through line somewhere in North-East London circa 1955 with some passenger trains terminating here and a variety of passenger and goods trains passing through.
The first photograph ( apologies for poor quality and/or lack of artistic merit but this picture taking and posting lark is all new to me) can be compared with the photo posted by Colin some time ago. A cross over has been moved, the area by the buffer stop becomes a loco servicing spur, the siding on the far left is the coal depot or goods shed road, the extra unlaid siding to the left will be a dock for horse boxes/cattle wagons and that nearest to the left, yet unlaid, is the head-shunt. The length of the area in view is 16 feet and the width is 1 foot 6 inches. Narrow board extensions will be added to either side of the existing structure for scenery, platform, cattle dock, goods shed, signal bow etc. There will be an over bridge at either end of the layout with the station building being sited on the bridge furthest from the viewer with steps down to the platform; traversers/fiddle yards will be sited at either end to facilitate operation.
Following this photograph is another others showing the general track and baseboard arrangement together with a variety of the goods on offer from Peter Hunt of Perfect Miniatures fame.
After these are some photos of a couple of locos and a horse box which were, I believe, built for Peter Cavalier by Colin Dowling. Again apologies for the pictures which have a loco with a wonky roof and one with a missing spectacle window, the photographer is on his second and final warning
The locos are a GE J15 and a J 68 tank, if I'm wrong please correct me.
We have actually rigged up some temporary wiring today and had our first run, by an LNER J39 and an English Electric Type 4 (class 40 to the youngsters).
The next work scheduled is completion of the track, fitting of the switch operating mechanisms and wiring. Peter Hunt has, I'm sure, a list of the remaining tasks for us all to focus on. Many thanks to all the crew at Sudbury for making this important piece of happen, it will be a very fitting memorial to one of our members.
Tim
