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My first, faltering steps :-)
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:23 pm
by Neptune50006
Well, after a few days of messing around with the RE I've come up with this...
Click the image to zoom in Not much I know, but I'm pleased with the result.
If anyone can recognise where it is I'll be very flattered. It's based as far as possible on a real life location (now closed).
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:47 pm
by salopiangrowler
it does look familiar, i thought it was barnt green till i realised the branch is double track at barnt green. Maybe i think Somweir Jct, perhaps looks very great western/midandish.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 7:13 pm
by Neptune50006
salopiangrowler wrote: it looks very great western/midandish.
Your on the right track
Here's another shot from the other side
Click the image to zoom in
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:27 am
by saddletank
Argh, that's annoying. I know where that is but the name escapes me. Is it Yealmpton?
It looks a fair bit like the junction station on the Pendon Dartmoor layout too
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:36 am
by Neptune50006
Think of a branch that leads to a prison
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:12 am
by saddletank
I know where you mean now - Princetown Branch - but my memory has gone totally blank on me regarding the name of the junction! That's excellent work. Keep it up! That UKFSv3 is beautiful stuff isn't it?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:24 am
by Neptune50006
You were very close Martin. It's Yelverton.
You're right about UKFS. That's what made me have a go a route building, so well done Tim Booth
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:25 pm
by saddletank
Yelverton - that's what I meant but somehow my ickle bwain got confused and it came out Yealmpton. Yes, the 5-sided station building at Yelverton was used as the basis of the Pen Tor Road station on the Pendon layout. Route looks good - how much are you modelling - just the branch to Princetown?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:58 pm
by Neptune50006
I plan to do the branch to Princetown, but I'll be taking a few liberties with the stations along the branch. Mostly making them a bit bigger and more interesting. I also plan to go as far north as Tavistock, again to give a bigger variety in operation. But I have to stress that this is only a first attempt, so it might sink without trace. It only really started out as an exercise in laying UKFS track.
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:54 pm
by micksasse
That's a very nice piece of work - can I ask what platforms pieces you are using? (Or are they your own?)
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 8:35 pm
by jp4712
On the video "Steam on 35mm volume 2" produced and narrated by John Huntley, there is a whole segment of professionally-shot film footage of the Princetown branch taken shortly before closure. It shows several stations, mainly in the snow; trains in the landscape; and is a lovely, atmospheric 7 minutes or so.
Great apologies to those who already know the series, but these "35mm" videos (there are diesel and electric volumes too) is all professional footage, mainly out-takes from BTF films and cinema movies, featuring railways as they were - no amateur blur-o-vision stuff! In both volumes 1 and 2 of the steam series there are segments taken of the approaches to Kings Cross in 1955 in Technicolor, taken for 'The Ladykillers', which are - quite simply - magnificent.
You may, if you haven't seen the video, find it useful or just plain inspiring.
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:06 pm
by Horgy
micksasse wrote:That's a very nice piece of work - can I ask what platforms pieces you are using? (Or are they your own?)
Ditto
Horgy
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:44 pm
by Neptune50006
Thanks for the comments
The excellent platforms are by Ian Jenkins file ID's 3031 and 3041.
Thanks for the tip about the video as well. I have ordered a couple from here
http://www.aarchive.co.uk/videos/railway.asp and I am awaiting them at this very moment
