As there have been a couple of threads recently about loco shed construction, I thought these pictures might be of interest to anyone with a Corpet looking for a suitably French-style home. The shed is at Le Crotoy on the Baie de Somme line, so not too far for a visit.
The general view shows that the end wall has been replaced by one made of breeze-blocks (the result of a brakes failure, I wonder?). What isn't apparent because of overgrowing trees is that the apex of the roof is vertical planks similar to the opposite end.
You can probably work out the dimensions from this composite broadside view from counting the bricks. For what it's worth, I'd say the brick panels were 75cm wide and the wooden beams are either 15 or 20 cm square. That would make the brick panel below the window 110cm wide.
The end is made up of one timber-framed brick panel on either side of the doors. Estimated size is: doorway 2.5 metres wide by 3.5metres high; with the brick and timber dimensions as before this gives a total floor width of 5.3 metres, which is pretty much the height to the roof peak. The roof is covered with what I believe the French call "Mechanical tiles" i.e. moulded. (as opposed to Roman tiles which are the round-shaped shaped tiles more common in southern France; tradition has it they used to be made by shaping the clay over one's leg!) The Mechanical tiles are larger than British ones, flat with a ridge down one side that locks onto the neighbouring tile. They often also have "nibs" moulded on the flat part. What would be wooden barge-boards at each end of the gables are similarly moulded tiles.
The estimated dimensions are given with no guarantee of accuracy but as a guide to preparing a drawing for modelling purposes; however they appear to be about right when compared to the track width in the end view, and the likely dimensions used by an architect used to metric measurements.
If anyone decides to have a go, please post the results.
The general view shows that the end wall has been replaced by one made of breeze-blocks (the result of a brakes failure, I wonder?). What isn't apparent because of overgrowing trees is that the apex of the roof is vertical planks similar to the opposite end.
You can probably work out the dimensions from this composite broadside view from counting the bricks. For what it's worth, I'd say the brick panels were 75cm wide and the wooden beams are either 15 or 20 cm square. That would make the brick panel below the window 110cm wide.
The end is made up of one timber-framed brick panel on either side of the doors. Estimated size is: doorway 2.5 metres wide by 3.5metres high; with the brick and timber dimensions as before this gives a total floor width of 5.3 metres, which is pretty much the height to the roof peak. The roof is covered with what I believe the French call "Mechanical tiles" i.e. moulded. (as opposed to Roman tiles which are the round-shaped shaped tiles more common in southern France; tradition has it they used to be made by shaping the clay over one's leg!) The Mechanical tiles are larger than British ones, flat with a ridge down one side that locks onto the neighbouring tile. They often also have "nibs" moulded on the flat part. What would be wooden barge-boards at each end of the gables are similarly moulded tiles.
The estimated dimensions are given with no guarantee of accuracy but as a guide to preparing a drawing for modelling purposes; however they appear to be about right when compared to the track width in the end view, and the likely dimensions used by an architect used to metric measurements.
If anyone decides to have a go, please post the results.
