G Scale Level Crossing

[Dylanlewis2000]

Hi,

Does anyone know if these are available or made by anyone other than POLA? I have seen the pola ones but they seem a bit on the expensive side.

 

[Bram]

Try Stockers who is a member on this form - he is Pendlebury Models

 

[Alec K]

I know this is turning the clock back a very long way, but Railway Modeller for November 1978 carried an excellent article by Rob Ormiston-Chant of LSWR level crossing gates on the New Forest lines. More to the point the article included a scale drawing of the standard LSWR pattern gate, at the odd scale it has to be said of 9/16ths of an inch to the foot (or 11mm to the foot). I've constructed a pair of gates from this drawing to 13mm:1 foot scale, using basswood strip and section, with ironwork cut from sardine tins, track pins to represent coach bolts and bent wire for hinges. A picture of the result, prior to painting, is attached, hopefully, anyway, as I haven't quite grasped the process yet. It was a project that was cheap on materials, but exacting on the eyes.

 

[Gizzy]

I'm sure I saw one of these at a swap meet in Bressingham a couple of years ago.

It looked very fragile; in fact the barriers had snapped off, so it was quite cheap.

I resisted the temptation as I didn't think it would be rugged enough for outdoor use....

 

[Dylanlewis2000]

ahh my stuff has to be rugged, as we have a lot of animals coming here in the night, foxes, hedgehogs and countless cats... back to the drawing board

 

[Steve]

I know this is turning the clock back a very long way, but Railway Modeller for November 1978 carried an excellent article by Rob Ormiston-Chant of LSWR level crossing gates on the New Forest lines. More to the point the article included a scale drawing of the standard LSWR pattern gate, at the odd scale it has to be said of 9/16ths of an inch to the foot (or 11mm to the foot). I've constructed a pair of gates from this drawing to 13mm:1 foot scale, using basswood strip and section, with ironwork cut from sardine tins, track pins to represent coach bolts and bent wire for hinges. A picture of the result, prior to painting, is attached, hopefully, anyway, as I haven't quite grasped the process yet. It was a project that was cheap on materials, but exacting on the eyes.

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