Winter in the Fens - Diddington and Upwell Drove

[Alex W]

I retired at the end of July last year. One of my retirement projects is to refurbish my layout Diddington and the purpose of this thread is to record progress.
Diddington depicts a branch line terminus in East Anglia. A tramway runs from Diddington to Upwell Drove, rather like the Wisbech and Upwell tramway.
I have started work with the terminus at Upwell Drove, which forms a stand alone layout and is booked for a show at Saltash in April.
A few picture of progress so far:
A J70 arrives at Upwell Drove with a train of vans.


The J70 uncouples and runs round it’s train



A pair of fruit vans are shunted in to a siding



A closet look at the J70



Back at Diddington the tramway coach and a Toad E await their next turns of duty

 

[NHY 581]

Hi Alex,

Lovely to see you posting on here. More please.

Rob

 

[Osgood]

Jeeprs, you've captured the winter atmosphere all right, it looks as cold at Upwell Drove as it was here today!

 

[Alex W]

A rather larger visitor at Upwell Drove today. Ivatt 2mt hauls a short freight comprising two BR vans and a brake van.

 

[Terry]

Beautiful! More details please! Scale and Gauge? How have you constructed the buildings?

Terry

 

[Alex W]

Hi Terry
It’s 4mm scale, OO gauge. Buildings are card, with Scalescenes brick paper and Scale Model scenery laser cut slates. I stick a sheet of graph paper to the roof before applying the slates to give me parallel lines to lay the corses to. I’ve attached a further picture of the waiting room which shows the different materials.

 

[Joe's Garage]

One word Alex...."lovely"
Julian

 

[paulc]

I retired at the end of July last year. One of my retirement projects is to refurbish my layout Diddington and the purpose of this thread is to record progress.
Diddington depicts a branch line terminus in East Anglia. A tramway runs from Diddington to Upwell Drove, rather like the Wisbech and Upwell tramway.
I have started work with the terminus at Upwell Drove, which forms a stand alone layout and is booked for a show at Saltash in April.
A few picture of progress so far:
A J70 arrives at Upwell Drove with a train of vans.
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The J70 uncouples and runs round it’s train

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A pair of fruit vans are shunted in to a siding

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A closet look at the J70

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Back at Diddington the tramway coach and a Toad E await their next turns of duty

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That is some superb weathering.

 

[Kev G]

Hi Terry
It’s 4mm scale, OO gauge. Buildings are card, with Scalescenes brick paper and Scale Model scenery laser cut slates. I stick a sheet of graph paper to the roof before applying the slates to give me parallel lines to lay the corses to. I’ve attached a further picture of the waiting room which shows the different materials.
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Love the way the bricks slope out at the bottom of the walls. Not something that you often see modelled.