Leek station- an O Gauge project

The toilet part didn’t pan out, so I continued with the stove for the waiting rooms and booking offices.

first of all, I’ll share a drawing I was sent which although useful, still
Left much to be desired! Still missing some sizes.


As anyone will see who is a modeller, yes it’s useful. But when you compare it to the photos below. There is much to be worked out or guessed.


Here are the 3 photos of three different stoves we know if surviving in the public realm. The first two are at Cheddleton, one in the booking office and one in the museum, the third is at the Chasewater railway.

slightly different angle for the door details.

so that just leaves converting what sizes I have in to 7mm sizes and drawing it..

wish me luck!

 

First pass.. this was actually V3. V1 was at 1:1 scale but just didn’t look right despite being from the original drawing specs.

v2 just wasn’t worth saving and was vastly wrong.

so we came to this and I was happy. Now drawn to 7mm scale it’s looking the part.

so made a start on the lower door and then the upper door.


And all together…


I now need to look at creating the Staffordshire knot and the NSR lettering that sits on each one. By my guess, I don’t think the letters will be more than a MM high… so see what we can do and what we can see come the printing.

That’s all for this year.

happy new year to all the followers here.
Andy

 

Thank you Rob.

the colour was just temp and will be going back to black..

 

And now on to the finishing touches before I start the base..

the last bit was to draw up the NSR Knot and the initials. I drew the knot out with a line then got one of the tools to trace the line with a tube.

unfortunatly, as it got half way around it crosses its own path and the computer says no. So I had to go with what I had and had half… so I copy and pasted and flipped it for a mirror image to get the final design.
This was then incorporated in to the doors.

top door.


Bottom door..


The stove..
And as it should be.. all black. The lettering and Knot are someone’s elaborate painting post it’s railway service.. they would have just been all black so I’m told.

Next on to the base ash tray.

 

That looks amazing mate, well done!

Cheers, Pete.

 

Customised….

 

Thanks Pete… but we shall see when it’s printed… hopefully towards the end of the week- just pending some sizes for the base from someone who lives nearer the station than me!

 

And so, a short and simple update - photos and drawing came through and the base was made. I then went and drew up the larger stove.

as it says, not to scale!!



so knowing the sizes it was off to the virtual drawing board to create it. The base is not as detailed as the smaller one, there is no bottom trim, but it does feature a decorative panel
On the front and sides.



and the little and large together.. (or is it Eric and Ernie?)


All the best.
Andy

 

Having delayed the toilet(s) for a while, I made a quick win part to print later with the stoves.

alongside the water columns are an inspection cover for an isolation valve to turn off the water feed to the external on/off valve handle.



these were a simple 3ft x 3ft plate with NSR stood proud with tread marks.


Simple stuff. Box inside a box with 2 ovals in it and NSR on the front.

next to add the square blocks for the treads



They are 1/4mm high by 1/2mm long and 1/4mm wide


Sorry about the poor screen shot for this. Changed it to its prototype colour but doesn’t stand out well.

hopefully get it all printed this week

Andy

 

very impressive

Ian vt

 

And as if by magic ….

we have the large and small stoves and also the manhole covers


Had a failure so a stove was missed



sadly, the NSR couldn’t quite be defined on the cover plate. It is just over 1mm high.