Platform Paving Slab Size.

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Been looking online to get an idea about the flag stone size used on UK platforms, ended up with a size of 3 foot by 2 foot, My railway is based on the UK somewhere around 1850 to 1900ish :) does a 3 x 2 sound about right ? Below is what a 3 x 2 looks like in G scale, the edge ones look big to me somehow, but searching the nett the edge flags look different on a lot of platforms in size shape and which way round they are laid..
Anybody made your own platforms what size Flags do you use ?


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Council slabs are currently 2 x 3 foot and I expect they have been for a long while. Edging slabs are sometimes much thicker and heavier - possibly to make them stable considering their overhang of the platform edge.
 
I suppose he edging slabs look wide because all the images have a white line down the side facing the track, which makes them look narrower, I assume they had white lines in the 1850s :)
 
3' X 2' and 2' X 2', were standard sizes. 2'6" X 2' were also available, but rarely.

I would suspect that 3' X 2' would be used where possible as fewer slabs to lay (just heavier).
 
Given the era of Sid's modelling, would not the paving be Yorkshire flags?

These varied in width (one row being kept to the same width, whilst the next row might be wider or narrows). The same applies to the length of a flagstone - the only rule being that cross joints should abut against the side of a neighbouring flagstone rather than against another joint or joints).

On platforms that were brick faced, the top courses of bricks were corballed out to support the edge stones.

Council concrete paving is as said dimension wise - the thickness being 2.5 inches.
 
I was under the impression that the white line along the platform edge was introduced in WWII as a safety measure in the blackout, or am I wrong?

David
 
20161031_125901.jpg Used upvc so fit bord and foamboard . . scribed in the stone slab...given the sizes of York stone paving slabs in real life
 
David1226 said:
I was under the impression that the white line along the platform edge was introduced in WWII as a safety measure in the blackout, or am I wrong?

David
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Looks like that is correct it seems to be the general consensus on the nett, you learn something new everyday, the earliest reference to white lines I have found so far is


official notice by the Great Eastern Railway dated September 12th 1913. (Instruction No. 1110, 1913.)

Edges of Station Platforms To Be Kept Whitened During Foggy Weather.

Notice to Station Masters, Inspectors, Foremen-Porters and others concerned.

In future, as a precaution during foggy weather the edges of Station Platforms must be kept whitened with whitewash; the work to be performed by the Station Staff, as required.


Looks like I will be changing to 1900 for my time period or may by 1913 :) stations would look odd with out the white lines..
 
LGB-Sid said:
Been looking online to get an idea about the flag stone size used on UK platforms, ended up with a size of 3 foot by 2 foot, My railway is based on the UK somewhere around 1850 to 1900ish :) does a 3 x 2 sound about right ? Below is what a 3 x 2 looks like in G scale, the edge ones look big to me somehow, but searching the nett the edge flags look different on a lot of platforms in size shape and which way round they are laid..
Anybody made your own platforms what size Flags do you use ?


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Not sure that I would wish to go down the route of individual Flags in the Garden. Though Modern Roofing Tiles that are the equivalent of Slate would do, I used them to make Stonework on the Ruschbahn Viaduct that never got finished. They are Black and would represent Old Well used Flags quite well. I cut them with an Electric Tile Cutter, wear a Mask!

Mikes rendition on Foamboard looks very good and I think that this is a better route to go. Though I personally would be templed to see if I could get Black Plastic.
JonD
 
dunnyrail said:
Not sure that I would wish to go down the route of individual Flags in the Garden. Though Modern Roofing Tiles that are the equivalent of Slate would do, I used them to make Stonework on the Ruschbahn Viaduct that never got finished. They are Black and would represent Old Well used Flags quite well. I cut them with an Electric Tile Cutter, wear a Mask!

Mikes rendition on Foamboard looks very good and I think that this is a better route to go. Though I personally would be templed to see if I could get Black Plastic.
JonD
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Probably didn't make the question very clear, it won't be made out of individual flag stones , The platform is made of PVC board , The paper on top in the pic is just to show the pattern before I scribe them into the top of the platform.
 
Probably wouldn't have been a UK standard, as each region would have done their own thing.

The Southern, and then the SR (in BR days) did a lot more with pre-cast concrete than the other companies.
 
The period you suggest LGBSid is most likely in the early, do it a cheap as possible, days of railway construction. Unless you are modeling a large station or terminus. From memory many halts were of all timber build, many had clinker platforms with flag stones at the edge and the larger ones often had flag stones at the platform edge but the ubiquitous - in past times - industrial blue bricks on much of the platform. Certainly rural places were seldom laid with expensive materials. Look at some 19th. century pics of the area you are hoping to model.
 
Longpockets said:
Some of the photographs here might help you - http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/

Pick the region you are interested in.
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Thanks for the Link I have been looking this week and so far decided to do the stones along the platform edge, but not infill in between them as it dos not really look that common a practice to flag stone a whole station. If I don't do it that way just need to decide what to make the center part represent now.
 
LGB-Sid said:
Thanks for the Link I have been looking this week and so far decided to do the stones along the platform edge, but not infill in between them as it dos not really look that common a practice to flag stone a whole station. If I don't do it that way just need to decide what to make the center part represent now.
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Was asphalt about then, that would keep it simple!
 
Looks like it was, they stated to trial it here in the UK in the early 1830s. probably looked a bit different to today's but it did exist, I thought it was a modern material..

The first British patent for the use of asphalt/bitumen was 'Cassell's patent asphalt or bitumen' in 1834

Asphalt spay paint LOL
 
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