Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
I can make it a club of two....FFC Fastidious Font Club.
Finding and using correct typeface/font does make all the difference.
4mm Farleigh - Southern Railway in 00, circa early 1930's
- Thread starter Terry
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I can make it a club of two....FFC Fastidious Font Club.
Finding and using correct typeface/font does make all the difference.
I was a bit concerned as to whether the printed names would actually be too small for my running-in board on the platform. I measured the board and am happy to report that the six printed names on the left side of the sheet will fit perfectly. I just have to find the time to do the job!
Merry Christmas to one and all.
Terry
Merry Christmas to one and all.
Terry
I managed to remove the running-in board without causing damage. Likewise the 'target' signs on the platform lamposts. These were quickly replaced with the Sankey Scenics' signs shown above. A big improvement. Thanks to Yorkshire Dave for pointing me in the right direction. The K6 telephone box is awaiting a dab of glue on the base. I thought that it would add a small bit of colour to the station forecourt. It does look quite at home here. An etched brass kit, courtesy of Shire Scenes from Dart Castings.
Terry
Terry
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
I do like a K6. A point you might like to consider is, in a rural situation like that, there would usually be a telephone pole to connect the box to the nearest junction box.
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Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
Yes, I believe the pole will be near to the telephone box. The wires would have run down the pole then underground to the box. The pole would also have wires radiating from the top to the station building as it would more than likely have had a public office phone (as opposed to the private internal railway) for the goods agent and for the public to ring in.
Generally in country areas and in surburban areas of towns the main telephone cables were run underground from the junction boxes to the poles which in turn would have the wires radiating from them to the buildings/houses.
Generally in country areas and in surburban areas of towns the main telephone cables were run underground from the junction boxes to the poles which in turn would have the wires radiating from them to the buildings/houses.
John Duffy
Western Thunderer
Now if it were a Fastidious Typeface Club, I would have my application sent. The misuse of the word Font is just another in an apparently growing list of Bill Gate's wrongdoings.
John
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
You know, I’d be hard out to explain! It’s one of those details that is just there but we don’t see it - like the spider's web of phone lines on poles in the 1950s estate I live in. I know it’s there, but I don’t "see" it. Somewhere, there’s probably a dusty reference specifying how such connections were to be made. One of those modeller details that sends us into the reference books and studying the background of photos intently!
I actually live on a country lane and there is a disused telephone box about seventy yards away. I might just pop along and see how it was done there. On Farleigh there is a telephone wire running from the telegraph pole beside the bridge, to the station building. I suppose, in theory, it might be possible for an unerground cable to run the short distance from the station building to the telephone box?
Terry
Terry
daifly
Western Thunderer
I've come to the conclusion that it's a cliche with little evidence to support the concept. I've looked at hundreds of views of station frontages around the GWR/BR(W) area and found precisely none!
No doubt someone will now pop up with an example but that example will be an exception rather than the rule. Fortunately, it's yet another opportunity to invoke Rule 1.
Dave
Dave, please would you clarify? I probably have my dunce's hat on, but what is it that you haven't found?
Terry
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
I believe you are correct. Perhaps it happened occasionally outside town or city stations. Either that, or the bright red colour was actually a brilliant camouflage when out in the country.
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
Sorry, Terry. Yes, I think that’s what Dave implied.
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
Interestingly, I've just looked at the ex-LSWR stations along the North Cornwall Railway and found no phone boxes. Strangely, one appeared outside Padstow after the station closed!
Dan Randall
Western Thunderer
I used to own one of those - dark blue enamel, with white lettering. Mine had a curved mounting flange, for attachment to a convenient telegraph pole.
I used to own a K6 phone kiosk too, but having moved house with it once, I didn’t wish to repeat the experience! I also lacked the time or motivation to restore it, so I sold it to a lady running a caravan park, somewhere in Wales.
Regards
Dan
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Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
Quite often a number of the larger town and city stations had telephone kiosks built into the booking hall/circulating hall/concourse walls - originally with wooden folding panel doors. Albeit this example was at South Harrow on the Piccadilly Line.
I think it all depended on the location.
