7mm A Lincolnshire conceit
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DougT
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Thanks, that’s very kind. Here’s the finished article randomly posing in the garden with a match wagon
Yorkshire Dave
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The 'rust' will be brake dust, oil and general dirt accumulated and hardened over the years.
Of course when it comes to track regularly traversed and stood on by diesels it would be more like this. This is one of my 1982 photos of Derby.
Also absent is the yellow warning line down the platform. This serves mainly to keep passengers behind the line for: high speed passing trains; keep the area clear so the guard/conductor/driver can have an unobstructed view down the length of the train and to aid the visually impaired where there are no tactile (knobbly) paving slabs set back from the platform edge. I have noticed today around my area (Leeds/Skipton) the yellow line has been replaced by tactile paving slabs.
Years ago when I worked for Thameslink, as part of the many training courses we learnt that yellow was one of the last colours which could be seen by individuals with degrading vision and visual impairements. Added to which yellow is a warning colour in nature for many venomous creatures such as wasps, hornets, frogs and snakes.
Of course when it comes to track regularly traversed and stood on by diesels it would be more like this. This is one of my 1982 photos of Derby.
Also absent is the yellow warning line down the platform. This serves mainly to keep passengers behind the line for: high speed passing trains; keep the area clear so the guard/conductor/driver can have an unobstructed view down the length of the train and to aid the visually impaired where there are no tactile (knobbly) paving slabs set back from the platform edge. I have noticed today around my area (Leeds/Skipton) the yellow line has been replaced by tactile paving slabs.
Years ago when I worked for Thameslink, as part of the many training courses we learnt that yellow was one of the last colours which could be seen by individuals with degrading vision and visual impairements. Added to which yellow is a warning colour in nature for many venomous creatures such as wasps, hornets, frogs and snakes.
DougT
Western Thunderer
Thanks Dave. The yellow line requirements changed after a 2018 RSSB research project and the principle reason they are there now is to warn passengers of the edge of the platform, with the enhanced reason being aerodynamic effects of passing trains (passenger >100mph, Freight >45mph). The incongruity at this particular 'platform' is that the two lines (for P2 on the down fast) and the non-used edge of the bay is that they get within about 50cm of each other with a lampost between them!
I guess for those of us brought up on the high-speed reasoning it still looks very odd to see a yellow line on a bay platform!
*cracking picture btw - that just oozes atmosphere!
I guess for those of us brought up on the high-speed reasoning it still looks very odd to see a yellow line on a bay platform!
*cracking picture btw - that just oozes atmosphere!
Yorkshire Dave
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The one and only time I alighted at Grantham was from this East Coast train on 01/03/2014 (after re-nationalisation following the National Express 2009 franchise default).
The warning area here appears to be demarked by a white ribbed line and a hatched area. It may well be a yellow line now.
The warning area here appears to be demarked by a white ribbed line and a hatched area. It may well be a yellow line now.
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
It's the amount of rubbish in and between the tracks which was the more prevelant then.
DougT
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Wow. Nearly a year since I last updated this build thread… and there has been change.
A recent move of house, which inevitably slowed the modelling down to a near dead stop, has provided the opportunity to broaden the horizons of the layout, by which I mean that the space constraint that I was building to has been eased slightly and I have been able to change the middle board out for a longer one! This is useful as it should allow the addition of another siding via a double slip, but also has allowed me to reconfigure the bridge at the end of the board and gives the opportunity for extension at some point in the future.
This gives an overview of the additional space the new board provides;
A temporary backboard is attached to the layout so that I can start fitting up line side buildings and landscape, it’s 3mm hardboard but it is just too flexible for my liking so will be replaced with 3mm ply in due course.
The station area is unchanged from previous and in fact has moved on a little with the addition of concrete fencing and landscaping, but build has again slowed to a near stop as I don’t really want to do any more landscaping until I’ve got the track and points down and in working order.
The era of modelling has also been redefined slightly and is now 1982 to 1984. The only concession to anything other than BR blue is the 50 which will shortly be adorned with ‘Warspite’ nameplates and modelled in the ex-works post-refurbishment condition that it was in when it was the last 50 to exit the Doncaster works refurbishment programme in December 1983.
A recent move of house, which inevitably slowed the modelling down to a near dead stop, has provided the opportunity to broaden the horizons of the layout, by which I mean that the space constraint that I was building to has been eased slightly and I have been able to change the middle board out for a longer one! This is useful as it should allow the addition of another siding via a double slip, but also has allowed me to reconfigure the bridge at the end of the board and gives the opportunity for extension at some point in the future.
This gives an overview of the additional space the new board provides;
A temporary backboard is attached to the layout so that I can start fitting up line side buildings and landscape, it’s 3mm hardboard but it is just too flexible for my liking so will be replaced with 3mm ply in due course.
The station area is unchanged from previous and in fact has moved on a little with the addition of concrete fencing and landscaping, but build has again slowed to a near stop as I don’t really want to do any more landscaping until I’ve got the track and points down and in working order.
The era of modelling has also been redefined slightly and is now 1982 to 1984. The only concession to anything other than BR blue is the 50 which will shortly be adorned with ‘Warspite’ nameplates and modelled in the ex-works post-refurbishment condition that it was in when it was the last 50 to exit the Doncaster works refurbishment programme in December 1983.
DougT
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Following on from the 08, a project started whilst waiting for track to be delivered, I completed my first proper loco repaint and weather this morning, 25044 quickly following a mk1 BG out of the workshop. And yes, the jumper cable is missing
Better get back to the track work now!
Better get back to the track work now!
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