Mill Road.

[amdaley]

Some granite sets put down.

Just waiting for some more sheets for the station area.

 

Edited June 8 by amdaley

[Mol_PMB]

That looks very neat! It's nice to see a goods yard with plenty of space for the road vehicles to manoeuvre - it's very easy for us railway modellers to cram the space unrealistically full of track.

[amdaley]

21 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

That looks very neat! It's nice to see a goods yard with plenty of space for the road vehicles to manoeuvre - it's very easy for us railway modellers to cram the space unrealistically full of track.

Believe me the temptation was there 

We've all been guilty of that.

[jhb171achill]

22 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

That looks very neat! It's nice to see a goods yard with plenty of space for the road vehicles to manoeuvre - it's very easy for us railway modellers to cram the space unrealistically full of track.

Couldn't agree more. When planning Dugort Harbour, I adopted the approach of "less is more", as I wanted it to look realistic scenically overall. It seems to work that way, and yet it certainly provides more than adequate operational potential and interest. Arguably, operation of a terminus-type layout offers much greater shunting challenges the less track there is - just like real life.

[dropshort105]

That is really taking shape, lovely 

[DJ Dangerous]

Wonderful and uncluttered, just right.

[amdaley]

All cobbles are done now.

The rest of the yard between the yard cobbles & the station area will probably just be dirt / gravel ?

I need to get a few buildings like coal merchants for the yard to utilise that long siding. I haven't decided yet ?

 

Edited June 14 by amdaley

[west_clare_wanderer]

That cobbled area is looking fantastic. I really like those low relief buildings too. Inspiring stuff! 

[derek]

Very nice. The  Groceries and Provision store especially.

[amdaley]

Facia has been fitted.

Facia & shelf have been painted.

Finishes off the front of the layout I think.

A few buildings needed for the yard next.

 

[amdaley]

A railwayman's canteen & store made from an old Triang Clerestory LNER coach that i had lying around

I replaced the roof with one in card & covered with tissue paper & then coated in black acrylic paint.

The body is just painted in dirty brown colour.

 

[Georgeconna]

1 hour ago, amdaley said:

A railwayman's canteen & store made from an old Triang Clerestory LNER coach that i had lying around

I replaced the roof with one in card & covered with tissue paper & then coated in black acrylic paint.

The body is just painted in dirty brown colour.

 

bet you would get a nice scalding cuppa from that! Nice work!

[amdaley]

1 hour ago, Georgeconna said:

bet you would get a nice scalding cuppa from that! Nice work!

Bring your own billy can 

[amdaley]

The yard now has a new coal merchant although he's yet to get a delivery 

The position isn't fixed as I'm still moving things around. 

Next up is a canopy for the station platform.

 

[amdaley]

The station platform now has a canopy & the engine shed has a small coaling stage.

Both are from Ratio kits which anyone who has made one will testify that they can be hit or miss.

The coaling stage is a modern version which I only got this week but the platform canopy is much older as I've had it in stock for a number of years. The instructions for the canopy were a bit confusing so it ended up as a make it up as you go along kit. The coaling stage had a good diagram of the parts & was much more enjoyable to make up. They've both been painted but will need a little weathering.

I now need to see where I need to install Kadee magnets & after that ballasting (maybe)