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Started knocking up the rough guide model of Stockport Viaduct for my Railworks route to suss out the best way to construct it. At nearly 1,800 feet long, this is not going to be a small model LOL:



Al

Keep the shots coming Al ... very interesting to see how 3DC handles a very large model.

Very interesting to see this take shape, I was stood under the Monsal Head Viaduct just the other week admiring it's majesty.
It's got me thinking about all the great viaducts on abandoned railways that were just turned to hard core What a shortsighted lot the people in power at the time were, they should have been classified grade 2 listed buildings. The only major viaduct that survived in my area is the wrought iron Bennerley Viaduct. It survived only because there was no value in the scrap because it would have to be manually dismantled at great cost.

briyeo1950 wrote:Very interesting to see this take shape, I was stood under the Monsal Head Viaduct just the other week admiring it's majesty.
It's got me thinking about all the great viaducts on abandoned railways that were just turned to hard core What a shortsighted lot the people in power at the time were, they should have been classified grade 2 listed buildings. The only major viaduct that survived in my area is the wrought iron Bennerley Viaduct. It survived only because there was no value in the scrap because it would have to be manually dismantled at great cost.

There was a big one only 5 miles outside Cheltenham. Dowdeswell viadcuct carried a cross country line from Cheltenham to Banbury, and also the MSWJR to Swindon and Marlborough, and was built on quite an acute grade (1-75 If I remember right).
http://www.swindonsotherrailway.co.uk/an.html

All demolished now. With the view and the sharp climb its been observed it would be a first class cycle route today....


Superb mode you are creating there. Im sure we will all look forward to seeing it in Railworks.

There is one on Bacup Branch that is still with us today Healey Dell Viaduct


Regards


John

If your trying to build the whole viaduct as one single model I'd rather consider doing it as a loft instead. Much easier.

stuart666 wrote:

briyeo1950 wrote:Very interesting to see this take shape, I was stood under the Monsal Head Viaduct just the other week admiring it's majesty.
It's got me thinking about all the great viaducts on abandoned railways that were just turned to hard core What a shortsighted lot the people in power at the time were, they should have been classified grade 2 listed buildings. The only major viaduct that survived in my area is the wrought iron Bennerley Viaduct. It survived only because there was no value in the scrap because it would have to be manually dismantled at great cost.

There was a big one only 5 miles outside Cheltenham. Dowdeswell viadcuct carried a cross country line from Cheltenham to Banbury, and also the MSWJR to Swindon and Marlborough, and was built on quite an acute grade (1-75 If I remember right).
http://www.swindonsotherrailway.co.uk/an.html

All demolished now. With the view and the sharp climb its been observed it would be a first class cycle route today....


Superb mode you are creating there. Im sure we will all look forward to seeing it in Railworks.

And this is Hook Norton No. 2 viaduct (or what's left of it ) on the eastern stretch of the same route



The track was carried on iron girders here too

Second the views expressed on the model already, great stuff

Steve