NCC concrete goods shed in 7mm

[Antony]

The NCC made good use of concrete structures from fence posts to buildings and had a concrete casting yard at York Road. One of their products was the goods shed at Doagh, built from cast concrete sections in 1916. I have a small goods area so I thought that a reduced size shed like the one at Doagh would be ideal. I have some photographs taken during construction - If I remember correctly, I photographed them from a page in a book at the IRRS premises. I presume they were official photographs by the NCC.

The basic structure is bass wood, balsa and 2mm mdf cutwith a knife or on my small bandsaw. A machine that has proved invaluable for many projects on the layout! The shell is then overlaid with strips of Evergreen plastic to build up the features.

There's also a picture of it in Ian Sinclair's book 'Along UTA Lines' during its lifetime.

I made the base separately

 

And now approaching completion. I'm not modelling any detail inside and the rear is just mdf. Time is of the essence! Some weathering will improve its appearance.

[Mol_PMB]

Very nice indeed!

[Colonel]

Looks way nicer that the prototype, which must have been a horrible place to work, especially in winter. Handsome 2-4-0 lurking  in the background.

[Patrick Davey]

Lovely build!

[Galteemore]

Very nice build. I’d no idea that the NCC had its own Exmouth Junction style concrete works! Mountmellick in Laois had a similar structure which is still extant. Image courtesy late Fred Dean 

[Antony]

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Very nice build. I’d no idea that the NCC had its own Exmouth Junction style concrete works! Mountmellick in Laois had a similar structure which is still extant. Image courtesy late Fred Dean 

Now that's interesting! A very similar design, I presume most railways in that era would have embraced concrete as a building material.

[jhb171achill]

9 minutes ago, Antony said:

Now that's interesting! A very similar design, I presume most railways in that era would have embraced concrete as a building material.

Not as much as you'd expect, as the basic buildings infrastructure had been so solidly built (usually out of stone) some 20-50 years earlier, when the various lines originally opened. However, it WAS used when necessary by the GSR, GNR and NCC. Very little use of it in other companies for reasons stated.

[Mayner]

The GSWR and to a lssser extent MGW adapted pre-cast concrete from the early 1900s for buildings and structures. The goods shed at Attanagh on the Portlaoise-Kilkenny line is/was? as pre-cast structure similar/identical to that at Mountmelick both likely to have been built following the GSWR takeover of the Waterford and Central of Ireland, Clonmel loco shed was another early 1900 pre-cast structure. Edenderry engine shed on the Midland is unusual rebuilt with a flat-roof which incorporates pre-cast components. Pre-cast was also popular for smaller structures like plate layers huts, signal mileposts, and signal post. The home signal at Loughrea survived for many years after closure with a MGW pre-cast post.

The Refreshment Room/Station at Parkmore on the Ballymena narrow narrow gauge is/was a 1920s replacement of an earlier building destroyed by fire, the NCC upgraded/replaced the buildings a Ballycastle with pre-cast after its 1924? takeover of the Ballycastle line.

[airfixfan]

At Ballycastle the only thing changed in terms of buildings was a shaky looking wooden engine shed was replaced by a new concrete engine shed in 1931.