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... I promised. Had to go out all day yesterday (Saturday), however, on the bright side, went to a market and found a stall full of model railway stuff, couldn't resist, bent the wallet a bit and bought a few things. I have attached a sample GIF file of the signal box scaled at 4mm to 1 foot. I will also post a sample of the same signal box but in BMP format. The image is of the signal box that was at Eastbourne, the box was built by Saxby& Farmer around the1880s or 1890s, for the LBSCR The proto signal box was a very large long building and was also mounted very high up (unusually so). The steps had, some 24 treads, from the ground level to reach the cabin platform, quite a climb for the signalman. I will post a sample sketch I used to scale and draw the box. The Eastbourne box closely resembles the old No. 5 signal box at Birmingham New Street, except, the New Street box is much closer to ...
... most appreciate your thoughts and expertise. Cheers Phil A timely and useful thread. Although I model the 1980's I'd wondered why I'd not seen any fouling bars. One thing less to model for me posted: 5 Feb 2009 09:22 from: Howard Mick Nicholson wrote: If you have them some years ago Steve Hall wrote a good serious in "Model Railway Journal" Issues 113& 115. Howard. posted: 5 Feb 2009 15:51 from: Martin Wynne Mick Nicholson has kindly sent these two scans from the Saxby catalogue: saxby_fpl_1.png saxby_fpl_2.png Thanks Mick. Martin. posted: 5 Feb 2009 16:49 from: richard_t Howard wrote: Mick Nicholson wrote: If you have them some years ago Steve Hall wrote a good serious in "Model Railway Journal" Issues 113& 115. Howard. I've just scanned the article from issue 113, which is prototype information (where-as the article in 115 is 4mm implementation.). Mainly for my own use so I don't need to dig through my MRJ's to find it. It's ...
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