Small layouts in small spaces
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alastairq
Western Thunderer
I wasn't thinking specifically of security fencing, but maybe odds & ends of remnants of old fencing lines?
Or the odd small fenced-off compound, perhaps around an innocuous small hut with a louvred, locked door? Nobody ever knew what was inside, or what the small huts were for.....
[I'm reminded of the last 20 years of my working life, spent based at a large military establishment nearby.]
Or the odd small fenced-off compound, perhaps around an innocuous small hut with a louvred, locked door? Nobody ever knew what was inside, or what the small huts were for.....
[I'm reminded of the last 20 years of my working life, spent based at a large military establishment nearby.]
alastairq
Western Thunderer
Probably a need for some quite tall floodlights here & there?
Given the fence [not very Mod-like, in my experience]...and gate hole, there might be a need for some sort of 'permanent'....small building to house potential security guards of some sort? A sentry 'box' might not be enough.
This would need to be 'lit' as well...even if not actually, ''in use?''
Then there's the telephone lines?
I am trying to recall the incidental details of the POL point situated where I ''used-to-work?''
POL points would have a fenced-off compound for filling and storing fuel containers['Jerry' cans]
I'm not sure this facility would need that, though?
There would need to be a designated 'vehicle park' for the vehicles used by the 'staff' here, though..not just some random spot!
Fire control points were also a probability....If not actually having a decrepit fire appliance permanently parked, however. So lots of 'red' bits here and there...[for a bit of colour?]
Would one of the tracks not actually have a raised gantry to support top loading or discharging of tank wagons?
Lots of 'manhole' covers dotted around are also useful 'details' I recall....These might also be 'built-up' with brick, as well as flush with the ground surface. Not very high, but enough to barff one's shins on in the dark.
Boundary fencing [barriers] were not always present [even where I worked] at the MoD property boundaries either........with security fencing being around specific areas mainly. Hedges of a decent thickness being the norm where I worked....security fencing and gates being more 'internally' located.
Security compounds regarding fuel, etc, being more about preventing pilfering than anything else.
Given the fence [not very Mod-like, in my experience]...and gate hole, there might be a need for some sort of 'permanent'....small building to house potential security guards of some sort? A sentry 'box' might not be enough.
This would need to be 'lit' as well...even if not actually, ''in use?''
Then there's the telephone lines?
I am trying to recall the incidental details of the POL point situated where I ''used-to-work?''
POL points would have a fenced-off compound for filling and storing fuel containers['Jerry' cans]
I'm not sure this facility would need that, though?
There would need to be a designated 'vehicle park' for the vehicles used by the 'staff' here, though..not just some random spot!
Fire control points were also a probability....If not actually having a decrepit fire appliance permanently parked, however. So lots of 'red' bits here and there...[for a bit of colour?]
Would one of the tracks not actually have a raised gantry to support top loading or discharging of tank wagons?
Lots of 'manhole' covers dotted around are also useful 'details' I recall....These might also be 'built-up' with brick, as well as flush with the ground surface. Not very high, but enough to barff one's shins on in the dark.
Boundary fencing [barriers] were not always present [even where I worked] at the MoD property boundaries either........with security fencing being around specific areas mainly. Hedges of a decent thickness being the norm where I worked....security fencing and gates being more 'internally' located.
Security compounds regarding fuel, etc, being more about preventing pilfering than anything else.
Jim smith-wright
Western Thunderer
Bit late but thought you might be interested in this image of Langley Green Tim
timbowales
Western Thunderer
More power to your elbow
alastairq
Western Thunderer
Gosh, Tim. Your research has compelled me to search out Fremington camp, in north Devon!
Back in the mid 1970's, I underwent my ''basic' training as a member of the Territorial Army, at Fremington. It was a battalion move for the 2 week 'summer' camp..[2nd Battn, Yorkshire Volunteers, POW Regt.].....involving a serious number of vehicle convoys down what was initially the M5...What would now be, classic vehicle runs!! [Also including the M1, etc] The variation in speedo accuracies resulting in convoys racing each other.....It's a long way down, from Hull!
Back in the mid 1970's, I underwent my ''basic' training as a member of the Territorial Army, at Fremington. It was a battalion move for the 2 week 'summer' camp..[2nd Battn, Yorkshire Volunteers, POW Regt.].....involving a serious number of vehicle convoys down what was initially the M5...What would now be, classic vehicle runs!! [Also including the M1, etc] The variation in speedo accuracies resulting in convoys racing each other.....It's a long way down, from Hull!
alastairq
Western Thunderer
My 'platoon' [2 platoon] consisted of a goodly number of working bus drivers.....We had Land Rovers with trailers..[half a dozen of us, one bus driver per vehicle]...Other convoys consisted of 3 tonners [mostly Bedford TKs] a lot of Bedford MLs, etc...an armoured convoy of Saracens.....The whole battalion, including cooks...! Our platoon had been tasked, as I recall, to get there 'first' to open up...We had to be there at least 2 hours before everybody else turned up. Not easy when we had the furthest to travel [from Bridlington]...
Being bus drivers, most of us 'knew' the roads of north Devon anyway.....[Yet none of us were in the RTC]....We managed to get there half a day before anybody else turned up...[Never leave the map reading to the officers]...Luckily we found the camp warden.....
All very much a cluster####
I acquired 'best recruit'....
I cheated, as I had, not long beforehand, half completed the RM Commando course.....Not really being a 'forces' person, I bailed halfway through, or thereabouts. Went back to bus driving!
Half a dozen local bus drivers conned into joining the local Terriers...largely so they could use us on the darts & doms teams...The Drill hall had a bar, which had a 'late licence'....useful as the bus depot was only just down the road, and the last shifts finished around midnight...Popping in for a swift 'alf before heading home was a regular event.
Today's recruitment policies are vastly different.....
Being bus drivers, most of us 'knew' the roads of north Devon anyway.....[Yet none of us were in the RTC]....We managed to get there half a day before anybody else turned up...[Never leave the map reading to the officers]...Luckily we found the camp warden.....
All very much a cluster####
I acquired 'best recruit'....
I cheated, as I had, not long beforehand, half completed the RM Commando course.....Not really being a 'forces' person, I bailed halfway through, or thereabouts. Went back to bus driving!
Half a dozen local bus drivers conned into joining the local Terriers...largely so they could use us on the darts & doms teams...The Drill hall had a bar, which had a 'late licence'....useful as the bus depot was only just down the road, and the last shifts finished around midnight...Popping in for a swift 'alf before heading home was a regular event.
Today's recruitment policies are vastly different.....
Roger Pound
Western Thunderer
The German narrow gauge railways, as you know were once so extensive but now, alas, much curtailed. The subject presents a veritable kaleidoscope and, IMHO, it is an excellent path to follow in ones modelling activities. Whatever aspect one wishes to portray of this subject is easily achievable in a most compact space. I do hope you enjoy venturing in to this field, Tim - there's nothing quite like it. 
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Roger
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