Planning for a station

[trammayo]

The built environment around my line is a little bit sparse at the moment but I have long term plans to alter that. Following the "official opening" of my bridges (Ox Mountain Railway) the cottages were demolished to make way for the "new" (1902) High Level line and a station.

"Old" photos show the cottages before being cleared and the site now.

Awaiting demolition ...

Same view after...

Another view of the cottages ....

... and after ....

A mock-up of the station ....

The plan - used an old carrier bag opened up .... almost church-like, it has a tower, and a transcept! The latter disguises the slight alteration of the roof line.

The station is intended to embody the key features of the two pics below ...

Santa Fe - Pineland station ....

Unknown station (early postcard view) ...

Because the rails leading to the High level line have already climbed nearly two scale feet, the foundations at this side of the building will be over 28mm higher at one end.

To simplify building construction, a concrete foundation will be laid to give a level site. This will have specially constructed formwork to form a lip - from which the building will rise.

 

[Don Gilham]

Great project Mick, I shall follow with interest

 

[trammayo]

Cheers Don. However, the weather isn't on my side (dull, wet and cold again) so I doodled in Word to give me something to work from....

and, as I type this, the currant bun has showed its face

 

[tramcar trev]

Very nice.... something about railway stations....will be keenly waiting to see your construction details....

 

[trammayo]

Thanks Trev. Now raining hard - cheesed off!

 

[Tony]

Im sure you will make a stunning job as always but it can be differcult having a station on a curve for getting the clearance's right though i know you dont run huge coaches they can end up leaving a rather large gap for small folks boarding a train

Tony

 

[trammayo]

Im sure you will make a stunning job as always but it can be differcult having a station on a curve for getting the clearance's right though i know you dont run huge coaches they can end up leaving a rather large gap for small folks boarding a train

Tony

Any gap's a large gap for short legs! Used to own a Honda 750F1 - very embarrasing stopping next to an unseen depression in the road and waiting for help to get the bike off me

 

[trammayo]

That station featured above (unknown-postcard) actually was modelled and appeared on John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid layout in HO many years ago. The book I have does not say where the staion is-was- or company it belonged to.

Interesting! it just caught my eye and I saved the image (from somewhere) and printed it out. Then I spent two weeks looking for it recently (and it wasn't how I remembered it - confused.com/mick?) as I finally decided to get on with the job. Hence an amalgam of styles

 

[trammayo]

Weather poor - dodging the rain - made the shuttering for the main base of the station. Plastic plugs fixed to shuttering to provide fixings for superstructure and some mesh cut ready for casting. In view of the weather, I will not bother to get the cement until things improve

There is space at the "uphill" end to set another building - albeit with a slightly higher floor level .....

 

[trammayo]

That station featured above (unknown-postcard) actually was modelled and appeared on John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid layout in HO many years ago. The book I have does not say where the staion is-was- or company it belonged to.

Well, I set myself a task - find the station! In the end, I found the original image I had printed out (postcard size) and, although hard to read, it was captioned

"Narrow Gauge Railway Station,
Revere Beach, Mass."

It is (or was) the Revere Beach - or Crescent, station. The location is now part of the MBTA Blue Line but was originally a 3ft gauge short line operated by the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. Apparently they had a penchant for Mason Bogies. All courtesy of Wikipedia

 

[trammayo]

Waiting for a prolonged (at least, a few hours) dry spell hasn't worked so I took a chance during an interval in the dampness and mixed a large bucket of concrete @3:1 mix and chucked in the mould.

Covered it over just in case the rain gets heavy. Fingers crossed it will be OK - should cure fairly quickly.

 

[dudley]

Love the track work, more pictures to come I hope

 

[trammayo]

Thanks Dud. Outside today - it hasn't rained since yesterday (hope I'm not speaking too soon) - do a little bit more before the bag of cement goes off.

 

[trammayo]

Well, no rain as yet and I managed to do some more work on the station foundations. I removed the form-work - even though the concrete is a little green - and decided on the length of the extension.

The shuttering was modified and re-used.

I had nearly forgotten about a power supply to the new station, so I laid a length of wiring in. The extension will be the freight depot. Track feed for the high level line runs underneath so this was protected before the concrete was placed.

I added the "extension" to the drawing, with a goods platform on the main line side. Because of the grade on the high level line, the door will be at "ground" level on that side so no need for a platform.

Total scale length of the enlarged station (at 1:22) will be 66 feet - or 890mm actually

 

[tram47]

very refined work, congratulations

 

[coyote97]

Wow...detailed work!

But may i say i feel sad about the cottages???? :crying:


Greetings

Frank

 

[trammayo]

Thanks Daniel and Frank. The cottages were carefully removed and saved for a Heritage Park

Up bright and early this morning (well, early if not bright) and let the cat out and took the chance to examine yesterday's little effort. The concrete was hard enough for me to remove the shuttering .....

Tomorrow (have things to do today) I will set up the platforms ready to concrete. I had thought of using wood but decided against it as we get a little too much moisture and, besides, the concrete will be easy to contour against the building and sloping site.

 

[Dtsteam]

Well, that explains why your buildings don't blow away - clearly my poncey wood foundations have been short of the mark ! Nice work, Mick.

 

[trammayo]

Thanks David but there is nothing wrong with wood - my orginal buildings (I only have two at the moment) are all wood. If fresh air can get to the wet wood there's no probs but, in my case, the idea of a wooden platform (boardwalk) might not work well. As I am going to use the corroflute type sheet as a basis I just thought they needed anchoring down

PS - there's nowt wrong with you buildings either!

 

[mike]

good work, like the thinking