A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Warehouse Wednesday: Hellingly Hospital Railway weighbridge hut
When I built my model of The Hellingly Hospital Railway, one of the great frustrations was the lack of information on the weighbridge hut. I appears in the corner of a single image in the first edition of Peter Hardings book and Peter was able to let me see the original image which reveals a bit more. Apart from that, nothing.
I've asked dozens of people who knew the line and uncovered no further details. That is, until I browsed the Britain From Above website, typed "Hellingly" into the search and found these two images.
You can clearly see the hut tucked behind a set of garages. Zooming in (I can't post those images to the blog, you'll have to go and look yourself, registration is free) it looks like, I didn't do a bad job with my model although I didn't put the end window in. Maybe I'll build another version one day...
In those photos, for some reason, it reminds me of an American shortline. A combination of the conifers, ungated crossing, wide road, a house with a big verandah?
ReplyDeleteIt also looks like it could be built to suit a corner site.