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Started by: taylork54 (247)

Hi, all
Time it seems is galloping away and it would seem that my body clock has gone onto a 20 hr day as I am all over the place ( eg, working in the train room at 3am this morning for an hour - mind wouldn't switch off so I thought sod ya!, may as well get something out of this nocturnal wandering.)

In the hour or so( at 3 am or whenever) I can muster each day between eating, sleeping and trying to achieve anything else I have been continuing to work in the area that backs onto the goods yard from King St.
Comparing some of the earlier photos with the latest ones I haven't managed to finish anything. Hmmmm!

Anyway, the work did involve pulling all of the buildings out to improve the base that they all sat on, then working on the backyards etc.



[/url]20190217_132531m by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr

Not much to show with the buildings but I did improve the retaining wall and fitted the coping stones along the top edge.


[/url]20190217_132502m by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr

Still no roofs in evidence in places, still some coping stones required and probably some more weeds.


[/url]20190217_132541m by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr


The front of Fyffes warehouse, the building of and it's location has taken up a fair bit of my time recently, most of the problems coming from the
modellers licence creating the bend in this area resulting in alignment problems. Oh well.


[/url]20190217_140452m by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr

[/url]20190217_122312m by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr

I thought the granite sett moldings would be ok around this area but they seem to be overly large, many of them scaling out at 12 x 9" rather than 9 x 6" ish as I seem to remember them.
Any thoughts on size?
I will have to try the rolling mold doofers that I tried out a while ago, I think they might be a better size.

When I get the light wired up in the office below you can actually see the man sitting in his chair in the r/h side of the window.
( Unless that is the wrong photo and you can't see him anyway, perhaps it is? ) ( Perhaps I need to go to bed, it is 10:45 pm here after all!)

[/url]20190211_141324m by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr

This whole area has given me quite a few headaches in determining the most appropriate trackwork and warehouse for the time frame.

I have photos of at least 3 different methods of the trains accessing this part of the yard ( inc; Trailing x over and access point, what appears to be a diamond crossing , what appears to be a single slip, in lieu of said crossing) 4 different O.S Maps from late 1800's to 1954 all showing different access and yard layouts, inc several combinations of wagon turntables.

To add to the morass the warehouse backing onto Chapel Ln had a twin pitched roof design for the main structure, but added to the front of the L/h half was a further but slightly smaller pitched roof building which appears to have been knocked down and left as an open platform for a number of years until it too appears to have been removed completely. Again the maps only add to the confusion but I am planning on the middle option with the open platform.

I can feel the fatigue creeping up again, so I will say Goodnight and I hope this makes sense to sane minds.

Cheers

Kev

Replied: 18th Feb 2019 at 11:34

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