4mm Llanfair

[Yorkshire Dave]

The overall scene looks better with the resited goods shed and coal yard (also less to damage when leaning over).

Looking down the latest view a history of the line can be easily written with the line being originally opened for goods only - with the coal yard siding extending down under the bridge to form the main line. Later the trackwork rearranged and the approach slewed to accommodate passenger services.

I would be inclined to leave the signal box where it is as moving it back would narrow the coal yard goods shed approach road. Personally I'm not too sure about the resited coal office - weren't these generally located at goods yard entrances or station approaches within easy reach of the public to order coal.

 

[LarryG]

The coalman's office is now adjacent to the yard entrance. All buildings are lined up with a set square, a very useful tool when doing the scenery....


The static grass was glued down with neat PVA and sucked to stand up with a vacuum. Rough grass is created with a heat gun.....


The 4-bar fencing was resting against the backscene for the time-being...


Water tank and hut bedded into the embankment. A single track road bridge will be tried out here......

A new turnout was laid at the neck of the yard so that the headshunt is now closer to the running line.....

 

[RichardG]

Larry this all looks beautifully spacious

 

[LarryG]

The signalman not only got an unobstructed view, he gotta bigga box too. It is the Intentio one from Barmouth which had been in my spares box for a while.


The smaller one was an upmarket covered lever frame, but this one has full instrumentation, token equipment and will control more of the turnouts...

 

[paulc]

I often wonder what the people in the drab grey houses behind the goods shed think . They go to bed and get up in the morning to a shed thats 20ft closer or a signal box that's twice its size albeit that the whole railway is half the size in scale that it used to be anyway .
Whatever it's all looking really authentic but do trains run on it yet ?

 

[Captain Kernow]

I often wonder what the people in the drab grey houses behind the goods shed think . They go to bed and get up in the morning to a shed thats 20ft closer or a signal box that's twice its size albeit that the whole railway is half the size in scale that it used to be anyway

I would imagine that they are really glad that Dr Beeching hasn't closed their railway yet...

 

[LarryG]

I often wonder what the people in the drab grey houses behind the goods shed think . They go to bed and get up in the morning to a shed thats 20ft closer or a signal box that's twice its size albeit that the whole railway is half the size in scale that it used to be anyway .
Whatever it's all looking really authentic but do trains run on it yet ?

Ha ha. It's all good fun. Beeching is as yet an unknown entity so all's well. Model trains can run on the section completed, but I doubt they will while I'm busy filling my time with this fictional piece of olde Cymru. The clock doesn't start until its completed.

 

[LarryG]

Thanks to 'GWR Structure Colours 1912-47', my recent re-education taught me to recognise GWR colours in colour photo albums...


It was plain to see that many stations never got painted in BR days, so the brushes were loaded with GWR Stone Nos. 2, 3 & 4, courtesy Phoenix-Precision Paints P21, P22 and P23.....

 

[LarryG]

The 'road' behind the platform was widened by removing a few obstacles and new spear fencing added plus more bushes to give the scene a more rural ambience...

 

[Quintus]

Larry,
I'm not so sure a farmers store would have a stove, in fact , most of these structures were more of a temporary nature, so maybe the brick faced platform is a bit ott. The pre cast concrete structures as per the Ratio kit were often used as cattle food/fertiliser stores, and failing that, perhaps an old clerestory coach or goods van body on a wooden trestle may be more appropriate? (See Moretonhampstead)
Cheers
Mike

 

[timbowales]

Larry, my subscription copy of the January 2025 Steam World has just landed on my doormat.
You might want to get a look at a copy. The centrespread is a superb photo of Llanfyllin in 1964.

 

[LarryG]

Tittivating sums up recent activity in the awful weather. The signalbox was moved further back from the platform edge with the backwall exposed to ground level. The spear fencing appears to have been vandalised....



A bush was added to the end of the platform...


Wagons carrying agricultural machinery will be pushed beyond the shed for collection at the unloading platform behind the station...

 

[LarryG]

Eerie red sky today, so this was dusk at Llanfair.....

 

[LarryG]

Wishing everyone on Western Thunder a Happy Christmas and Health & Happiness throughout 2025....

 

[LarryG]

When the station building was narrowed, the back end was never made good. Anyway, its done now using scraps of laser cut brick. The 'street' entrance was converted into a large round-top window in the 19th Century when it was found that passengers and goods yard horses and carts did not mix....


This aspect would be rarely seen in photos, but its a bit more of unfinished work completed...


Large agricultural equipment can be unloaded here as well as in the platform for same-day collection...

 

[LarryG]

Whilst I have a plausible excuse for a double track bridge, some folks tell me it should be a single bridge, so's a built one! It's the Wills SS53 plastic kit.

Two pieces of 80 thou plastikard wedged the arch crown down and strengthened the structure...


I added four identical black triangles to ensure the wing walls would be all the same angle...


Finished bridge. I always make one mistake............One of the parapet walls is upside-down...

Bridge plonked in place with photoshopped embankments to see how things would look.....


Did the same with the stone double bridge for comparison.....

 

[Captain Kernow]

Not sure which I prefer, Larry - they both look really good in that location!

 

[daifly]

The vernacular buildings on the back scene are mostly stone coloured so stone would surely be the building material of choice?

Dave

 

[simond]

But the station buildings are brick, so perhaps…

 

[daifly]

….Perhaps they’re wrong too?

Dave