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LNR wrote: ↑Sun Mar 11, 2018 5:50 am PS 1979 the start of your railway perhaps? can't tell if its an 8 or 9

It’s 1879. The putative history is that the RLR was first incorporated as a Tramway before being reincorporated as a light railway after the Light Railway Act was enacted. The original date was going to be 1889, but I didn’t have enough “8’s” left on my Slater’s letter sprue to write that so hence now 1879 It also pushes the date closer to when cast iron would be the choice design, although I believe short arched designs with lighter loads in cast iron were used later than in other circumstances. I also have made up a SHL resin roll top girder bridge and an American made (Hampton Garden Railway Models marketed in UK by Cain Howley) plate girder deck plate girder with no rivet detail (so presumably “welded” construction). I am struggling with a back story for that combination!

I am spending Sunday morning drinking frothy coffee and contemplating how to make shoes to fit the bridge and whether or not to model newel posts for the end of the bridge.

Andy

I have several times referred to hunting out some old photos of the (now-defunct) Rylston Light Railway (mark 1), but I thought it would be tidier to have a separate thread

https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 04#p134104

I hope you enjoy it.

Andy

Brilliant station and bridge Andy - the perfect tonic to help your health improve!

markoteal wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:44 am Brilliant station and bridge Andy - the perfect tonic to help your health improve!

Hear hear ....... in all respects

Rik

I have no idea how I've managed to miss this thread.

Superb and inspiring modelling. I hope you are fully recovered.

I'm planning to review my unfinished projects. Some will be sold, some will be scrapped and a few may even get finished.

Ian