Warren Yard - 5 - Loco Services - Maintenance

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  1. Jim Freight

    Jim Freight Full Member

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    The shed and attached workshop provide a covered area in which to provide light servicing and repair to the locomotives assigned to Warren Yard and the branch lines it serves.

    The shed has two roads with pits with internal access to the workshop.

    The shed is a Wills kit which I bought already assembled but damaged, it was partially dismantled including removal of windows where possible, structurally made sound, a workshop added to it and missing vents replaced.

    The attached workshop is semi-scratch built from a Wills good shed kit which keeps the styling consistent with the whole structure being built at the same time in its history.

    Images 1 & 2 show the basic shell of the workshop attached to the repaired shed and taped up while the cement joining the two dries.

    My trusty surface plate is an old piece of door window pane glass I found amongst debris in the original dilapidated sheds at the bottom of my garden.

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    Both were painted/repainted with Humbrol brick red and mortared with a wash of stone. Window frames were painted green along with some of the wood framing at the roof ends, the roof end to be depicted as being repainted, the builders truck is already there but there is a hold up getting the scaffolding assembled.

    Most of the buildings associated with Warren Yard have been coloured in this way to give some consistency between the structures from multiple sources, where fitted stone lintels and doorsteps are a dark slate grey in keeping to with the local rock strata.

    Images 3 and 4 show the completed shed and workshop, the access ladder to the roof of the shed is one of the excellent kits from Scale Model Scenery of which there are many examples around my railway including very many metres of their fencing of various types.

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    Regarding the lorry here, there were many ex-army surplus lorries still in widespread use in the early 1960s, I saw a few myself such as a simple crane in a local timber yard on a Bedford QL chassis similar to the builders truck I created here back in the early 70s. This conversion was based upon an Airfix aircraft refueling tanker kit of 1971 release.

    A much more significant fullsize ex-army truck conversion I saw once was a Scammell Tank transporter converted to a tarmac laying machine, this was long before the highly specialised machines now in common use. But I digress down that very long and winding memory lane.

    The workshop has a stone floor and includes a forge, light machine tools, and bench, the roof is not fixed in place to allow fitting of more internal items, including an overhead beam for a hoist and maybe lighting, images 5 and 6 show the interior as fitted out so far, all too clean but that will change on a second pass.

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    Next, coal and water

    Discussion always :welcome:

    Jim

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  2. Andrew Laing

    Andrew Laing Full Member

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    Nicely done, those Wills kits are as much scratch build as they are a Kit.
     
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