Crab and Winkle
Active Member
Hi everyone,
I thought I would put up a couple of photos of a wooden bridge I am working on at the moment.
It still has several details to add such as the bracing on both sides of the uprights and metal ties between the main baulks, bolt heads, creosote coloured paint etc.
I could literally not find two of the prototype bridges the same when I was researching them, with differences occurring in span width and upright and cross member configuration. So I used the Wickham Bishops bridge plan from the Great Eastern Society as a start point and modified it to match photos of bridges on the Brightlingsea and Snape lines. Most notably the on WB bridge each pylon/trestle is asymmetrical with one angled upright and three vertical while mine are symmetrical like the Brightlingsea and Snape ones. The span width on mine scales to 16 feet while the WB one is mostly 13.5, Snape varying between 18 and 21 and Brightlingsea 15.75. The overall length however is most like Snape as all the others were very long.
This is how the bridge will fit into the landscape, the center piles are not currently attached and are just standing on the board as I am still experimenting with how to model the tidal creek water that will be on the bare part of the board.
After I was well under way on this project I found this photo online
http://railbrit.co.uk/slideshow/slideshow.php?coy=Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway
it is handy as it shows details on the construction usually hidden by sleepers and in most photos passing trains.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elettra1143/6089480742/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wickham_Bishops_railway_viaduct.jpg
These Wickham Bishops ones are also useful I believe someone has already modeled that bridge in 4mm.
Cheers
Bill
I thought I would put up a couple of photos of a wooden bridge I am working on at the moment.
It still has several details to add such as the bracing on both sides of the uprights and metal ties between the main baulks, bolt heads, creosote coloured paint etc.
I could literally not find two of the prototype bridges the same when I was researching them, with differences occurring in span width and upright and cross member configuration. So I used the Wickham Bishops bridge plan from the Great Eastern Society as a start point and modified it to match photos of bridges on the Brightlingsea and Snape lines. Most notably the on WB bridge each pylon/trestle is asymmetrical with one angled upright and three vertical while mine are symmetrical like the Brightlingsea and Snape ones. The span width on mine scales to 16 feet while the WB one is mostly 13.5, Snape varying between 18 and 21 and Brightlingsea 15.75. The overall length however is most like Snape as all the others were very long.
This is how the bridge will fit into the landscape, the center piles are not currently attached and are just standing on the board as I am still experimenting with how to model the tidal creek water that will be on the bare part of the board.
After I was well under way on this project I found this photo online
http://railbrit.co.uk/slideshow/slideshow.php?coy=Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway
it is handy as it shows details on the construction usually hidden by sleepers and in most photos passing trains.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elettra1143/6089480742/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wickham_Bishops_railway_viaduct.jpg
These Wickham Bishops ones are also useful I believe someone has already modeled that bridge in 4mm.
Cheers
Bill