Love Lane, B.R. (E) c.1956-59

[Eastsidepilot]

What feature of the prototype building construction or use thereof might cause the lucams to be staggered?

The larger lucam is off centre by about 3ft. but as John says shares the same pitch and alignment of one side but is taller. Looking at it logically there is no architectural or structural reason for doing it other than possibly ( my theory ) that the building originally only had one lucam on the rail siding side for loading wagons, later it was decided they needed a lucam on the yard side but probably said to the chippy's we'd like a bit more head room !. So the result would have been the logical way to build it, and by going upwards with the same pitch also makes it wider and off centre, simples
Col.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Love Lane now has a third Britannia class loco on the roster, @Boyblunder is the proud owner of 70036 'Boudica' , another Masterpiece Models example.



Finished buffer stop at the end of the coal road siding in the goods yard.



We have to decide on how we finish the loco servicing road behind the Up platform, we have managed to salvage the pit from the old loco yard baseboard. The buildings and infrastructure placed in mock -up positions to show how the yard could look.







The siding behind the bothy is the goods yard head shunt.

Col.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Yesterdays meeting at Love Lane had us discussing the cutting through the Urban area south of the station. These shots show the mock up to give a visualisation.

 

[Osgood]

Very much liking the contrast between urban and countryside, and use of the station as a transition.

Is that the Dapol building in the arches a factory, or a 'seconds' retail outlet?

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Is that the Dapol building in the arches a factory, or a 'seconds' retail outlet?

It's a bodge 'cause it 'aint S7

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Just an idea - rather than go for the cliched retaining wall arches and extending the platform under the bridge screaming inner urban Victorian London could you not have a grass cutting with plain brick or even 1930s concrete retaining walls set back a third or halfway up the cutting with 1930s art deco apartment buildings and shops?

It would be as if the surrounding area was subsequently developed during the 1930s expansion and would give you a contrasting architectural style to the late Victorian/Edwardian station building. This would immediately set the layout as outer suburbia - a 'Metroland' of the east so to speak.

 

[Osgood]

Just an idea - rather than go for the cliched retaining wall arches and extending the platform under the bridge screaming inner urban Victorian London could you not have a grass cutting with plain brick or even 1930s concrete retaining walls set back a third or halfway up the cutting with 1930s art deco apartment buildings and shops?

It would be as if the surrounding area was subsequently developed during the 1930s expansion and would give you a contrasting architectural sytle to the late Victorian/Edwardian station building. This would immediately set the layout as outer suburbia - a 'Metroland' of the east so to speak.

Sounds like a plan for the proposed 2027 Love Lane redevelopment scheme - I'd like to get to see the 2024 archways version before the bulldozers move in

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Sounds like a plan for the proposed 2027 Love Lane redevelopment scheme - I'd like to get to see the 2024 archways version before the bulldozers move in

Would the 2027 plan include electrification - whether it be the 3rd & 4th rail as if taken over by LT or the late LNER/eary BR 1,500V DC or the later GE 6.25kV AC (prior to upgrading to 25kV).....

 

[Tim Humphreys ex Mudhen]

Would the 2027 plan include electrification - whether it be the 3rd & 4th rail as if taken over by LT or the late LNER/eary BR 1,500V DC or the later GE 6.25kV AC (prior to upgrading to 25kV).....

You've read our minds Dave, we have votes for both LT takeover and 25k Overhead

Tim

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Today at Love Lane with the crew.

J68 testing the continuity of newly laid coal road.


Whilst the main line was also tested




Work on the granary continues with the timber cladding stained black, gutters and down pipes being fitted.

More buffer stops at the end of the goods yard.


Track being laid on the yard head shunt.






The goods shed finally starts to get it's roof fitted.




Parcels stock shunted into the bay.


Plenty of other work continues, finally a decision on the cutting just beyond the station has been made and this will now feature a plain brick retaining wall an embankment above this instead of the initial idea of arched retaining walls at full height. This section of the layout as mentioned earlier is to be part of the town and will feature railway workers cottages and allotments on one side whilst the other side will be the backs of a row of shops and a pub. We will post photo's as work progresses with this.


Col.

 

[Brian McKenzie]

View attachment 210495

Solar panels on the goods shed roof ??

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

finally a decision on the cutting just beyond the station has been made and this will now feature a plain brick retaining wall an embankment above this instead of the initial idea of arched retaining walls at full height. This section of the layout as mentioned earlier is to be part of the town and will feature railway workers cottages and allotments on one side whilst the other side will be the backs of a row of shops and a pub.

I think this is a good idea as the railway cottages can be built in a GE victorian vernacular and the rear of the shops and pub can be in a pseudo-1930s art-deco style/mock tudor of a later development providing a nice contrast not often seen in model form and gets away from the rose tinted twee chocolate box. With the pub built in the style of the Wake Arms at Epping rebuilt in the 1930s or something like the 1930s The Admiral Vernon in Dagenham.

Having seen the photos with the ex-SR night ferry guards utility van there's no reason why you could not have a van train made up of FS, SNCB and DB Fährbootwagen as if the train ferry service had been diverted from Harwich to reach Bishopsgate via another route.

 

[Oz7mm]

Not solar panels Brian. We were keen to build the roof like the prototype so a picture taken from inside or under the loading bay canopy you would see the rafters criss crossed by the tile battens. That is what you see with the frames for the roof lights resting on top of that layer. We have glued the rafter/tile batten matrix down to provide a basis for the slates and to prevent warping.

The very patient work of Rhod Turner.

John

 

[Tim Humphreys ex Mudhen]

I think this is a good idea as the railway cottages can be built in a GE victorian vernacular and the rear of the shops and pub can be in a pseudo-1930s art-deco style/mock tudor of a later development providing a nice contrast not often seen in model form and gets away from the rose tinted twee chocolate box. With the pub built in the style of the Wake Arms at Epping rebuilt in the 1930s or something like the 1930s The Admiral Vernon in Dagenham.

Having seen the photos with the ex-SR night ferry guards utility van there's no reason why you could not have a van train made up of FS, SNCB and DB Fährbootwagen as if the train ferry service had been diverted from Harwich to reach Bishopsgate via another route.

Dave,

Cottages are well underway, see post 1243, these are modelled on some situated in the same area of NE London. The pub is based on one found in East London which is situated on a corner giving an interesting design and entrance, photo to follow.
The ferry van was built by John after finding a photo of one in parcels service at Bishops Stortford.

Tim

 

[Oz7mm]

[proof reader mode]

The pub they seem to like is actually in Charlton in South East London and the ferry van was photographed at Hertford East. It’s late.

John

[pedant mode off as well]

 

[Eastsidepilot]

This is the pub we have considered, The Victoria in Charlton, but not necessarily 100%



I suggested a mirror image version.




Col.

 

[Scale7JB]

Cant think how many hundreds of times I have driven (or more accurately have been driven) past that pub over the last 40 years..

Looking it up properly whilst checking, seems it is now a Domino's Pizza joint. If modelled accurately, it looks like Janet won't be quite so busy in the Kitchen on Wednesday lunchtimes but hope the appetites of the attendee's are to the scale they are modelling in..

JB.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

A month since the last update,

Work continues on laying sidings, on the right is the private siding for the granary.





Retaining wall mock up, and sleeper staining in progress.









Loco siding and head shunt appearing gradually.


....and the prototype Deltic briefly stops at Love Lane on a north bound test run.





Col.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

The low retaining wall looks a lot better and more in keeping with the countryside around the area of Essex being depicted.

At this country end of the section I think a lattice public footpath footbridge with young trees and bushes behind on the low cutting would provide a more believeable and softer exit to the fiddleyard than another brick bridge as originally depicted with high retaining wall.

 

[Tim Humphreys ex Mudhen]

Dave,

This is not the country end, it's the town end. The opposite end with the goods shed and granary is heading out into the country. The area around the station is growing with houses and shops as the town expands.

atb
Tim