For the past couple of years I’ve been wittering on to anybody who would listen about my plans to model Wolverhampton Low Level in its days as a parcels depot. Progress has been sporadic, particularly with the house move (and subsequent renovation work) taking priority, but I’m finally getting somewhere.
As Nigel mentioned in the Workshop Night update I’ve been making some progress on the buildings recently. I’ve made cardboard mock ups of the station buildings to help planning the position of board joints and viewing angles. I’ve also finally got my head around how to use Templot and have drawn up the templates for the trackwork – significantly more planning than went into Foundry Lane!
Last week, I cleared the dining room table and put the templates and buildings together, here’s what it might look like, an overall view of the scenic section, which will measure 2.4m x 1.1m:
These views are taken from the position of Sun Street bridge which will hide the exit to the fiddle yard.
Think I’ll be needing a bit more parcel stock! Hornby’s new SR Van B and Gresley BG might be useful!
Confession time: I’ve decided I’ll be building this in P4, rather than EM – it just seems the right thing to do for a model of a real location, especially as the trackwork is quite simple and that hardly any of my EM stock from Foundry Lane will be used.
A parcel from EMGS stores arrived today; 10m of steel bullhead rail, should be able to make a start on some track soon.
And that building which Nigel mentioned (which I think was the parcels office):
and a further update after a bit more work done last night:
Cheers
Staffordshire Finescale 