My first, faltering steps :-)

Neptune50006 · Post by **Neptune50006** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:23 pm

Well, after a few days of messing around with the RE I've come up with this...

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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).

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:47 pm

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.

Neptune50006 · Post by **Neptune50006** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 7:13 pm

salopiangrowler wrote: it looks very great western/midandish.

Your on the right track

Here's another shot from the other side

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saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:27 am

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

Neptune50006 · Post by **Neptune50006** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:36 am

Think of a branch that leads to a prison

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:12 am

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?

Neptune50006 · Post by **Neptune50006** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:24 am

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

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:25 pm

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?

Neptune50006 · Post by **Neptune50006** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:58 pm

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.

micksasse · Post by **micksasse** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:54 pm

That's a very nice piece of work - can I ask what platforms pieces you are using? (Or are they your own?)

jp4712 · Post by **jp4712** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 8:35 pm

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.

Horgy · Post by **Horgy** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:06 pm

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

Neptune50006 · Post by **Neptune50006** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:44 pm

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