Barrow Road Wheel Drop Shelter

[barrowroad]

Barrow Road had a hydraulic wheel drop situated on an extension of road 14 at the rear of the roundhouse. A brick built shelter, with buttress walls and a corrugated asbestos roof provided rudimentary shelter for shed staff although this must have proved unsatisfactory as a brick extension was added between the shed wall and the shelter to cut down draughts.

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Photo taken in 1965 by Robin Whittle.

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Photo Robin Whittle collection.
The model is made from Slaters plasticard brick sheet and sections of plain plasticard.
In order to fix the walls in position I have inserted short lengths of brass tube into the base of 2 of the buttress wall supports, each side, and these slot over pieces of 0.8mm n/s wire fixed into the baseboard. The structure is therefore removable. The 4 girders in the roof are made from plastruct 'I' and are held in place using n/s wire inserted into holes at the top of the buttress.

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The roof is fabricated from 4 lengths of square section brass and nickel silver strip to which I have soldered Ambis copper corrugated sheet. A length of gutter from half section brass tube has been added to the right side.

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[barrowroad]

More progress made with the shelter now painted and weathered and fixed in position on road 14.
First a representation of the wheel drop was fabricated and positioned at the middle of the track under the shelter before assembling the walls, roof girders and the corrugated roof.

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I have a few more details to add such as the two lights at the front of the shelter shown in the photo of 51202 in my previous post.
Can anyone suggest a suitable source of such lights, working or non working?

[Re6/6]

Lovely stuff Robin. ...(in the absence of a 'like' button on here!)

[bécasse]

Making up those lights from scraps of plastic, plus soldered up bits of wire for the supports, should be a quick job. The bricks immediately behind the left hand one even give a very good idea of the dimensions involved. That leaves the question of colour, in the absence of information to the contrary I would go for dirty black with the underside of the shade white.

[Hardwicke]

More progress made with the shelter now painted and weathered and fixed in position on road 14.
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Can anyone suggest a suitable source of such lights, working or non working?

I've sent you a PM

[Hardwicke]

Making up those lights from scraps of plastic, plus soldered up bits of wire for the supports, should be a quick job. The bricks immediately behind the left hand one even give a very good idea of the dimensions involved. That leaves the question of colour, in the absence of information to the contrary I would go for dirty black with the underside of the shade white.

They are copper with a brown shade white underneath

[barrowroad]

Thanks for all your comments and information chaps.

[barrowroad]

I have finally got around to fitting the R T Models gas lamps to the wheel drop building.
Thanks for the suggestion Michael.

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