Rippers
Western Thunderer
Situated in the Yorkshire Wolds 'Market Weighton' was the junction of the Beveley-York and Selby-Driffield lines. The station and associated yards situated between the double junctions that brought the two routes together for a brief distance.
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The model you see part of here is a 4mm (finescale 16.5) recreation of that station and was built by many of the modellers who now consist the East Riding Finescale Group. In fact we built it 20 years ago!!. ................hence the somewhat dated scenics.
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All the buildings (mainly GT Andrews designs) were built in wood and plasticard from original drawings.
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The complete layout measures some 40 feet by 21 feet ???....... with only the station board seen here having four right angle corners as the scenic frontage was built to the curve of the prototype.
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Big isnt it?..........
...........and this is only half of the scenic section (3 boards) consisting the York/Selby junction end - there are a further 3 with the goods yards and Beverley-Driffield which go beyond the station board you can see to the rear.
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To say the model has spent the last 10 years in store (we sold it a decade back and have reaquired it recently after the owner - who never even unpacked it)- passed away.
Plans at present have includied given the model a deep clean and thorough testing - plus sympathetically upgrading the scenics with newer materials. Though due to commitments with other layouts we are reluctant to show it again (though we have been bombarded with enquiries).
Hopefully there will be a club out there who might like to take the model on (would make a superb DCC layout).
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The model you see part of here is a 4mm (finescale 16.5) recreation of that station and was built by many of the modellers who now consist the East Riding Finescale Group. In fact we built it 20 years ago!!. ................hence the somewhat dated scenics.
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All the buildings (mainly GT Andrews designs) were built in wood and plasticard from original drawings.
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The complete layout measures some 40 feet by 21 feet ???....... with only the station board seen here having four right angle corners as the scenic frontage was built to the curve of the prototype.
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Big isnt it?..........
...........and this is only half of the scenic section (3 boards) consisting the York/Selby junction end - there are a further 3 with the goods yards and Beverley-Driffield which go beyond the station board you can see to the rear.
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To say the model has spent the last 10 years in store (we sold it a decade back and have reaquired it recently after the owner - who never even unpacked it)- passed away.
Plans at present have includied given the model a deep clean and thorough testing - plus sympathetically upgrading the scenics with newer materials. Though due to commitments with other layouts we are reluctant to show it again (though we have been bombarded with enquiries).
Hopefully there will be a club out there who might like to take the model on (would make a superb DCC layout).