As mentioned in the last post about The Collector, I was in the throes of moving house last year. Realising I needed to bank some content to cover things whilst I moved, I thought I'd do two projects back to back; Damems, and Burneside. Naturally I got carried away; I ended up making three seperate dioramas for this one, which is just what you want whilst trying to pack up and move...
This came off the back of the Pensnett Trading Estate Build; I wanted to do another one using Hornby buildings, but a bit more rural, with a bit more modelling than the 'out of the box' beginner angle used on the earlier build.
The real Burneside Tramway was an industrial line (network technically) centered on the James Cropper Paper Mills in the Southern Lake District. Lightly laid and worked by a pair of internal combustion shunters, the lines pottered between various small mills and units in adjoining villages, exchanging traffic with the mainline in Burneside itself. The line stuck to the roadsides, except for a couple of places where it ran down the road itself.
Scrapped in the 1970's when BR rationalised the main line to Windemere, odd traces of the railway remain (with the paper firm happily still in business) along with both locomotives. I thought a project inspired by it would be just the thing, as it would allow me to make use of my Ruston 48ds model.
Here's one of the kits, the Town Bank; I bought a variety of buildings, some already built by previous owners, but planned on repainting and detailing everything.
Scene 1 would be one of the village mills. Upcyling the Diesel Depot and water tower used on Pensnett, at this stage I was thinking about using some of the modern resin buildings Hornby sell (the white village garage).
I didn't take many pics of this one under construction; this one will have to suffice, but shows the effect used for the photographs; every time I've been to the real Burneside, it's been chucking it down, so I thought I'd replicate that on the model. Once complete, the scene was drizzled with gloss varnish..
Locomotives; the Simplex, "Rachel" is preserved in working order at the nearby Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. The other loco, the Ruston 48DS, is preserved in the South-East and a bit far to go to get pictures of, but using the Hornby model would be a shortcut for this article. I'd planned to build the Simplex if I had time (in the end, with the house move, I didn't of course).
I used one of the open-cabbed versions of the loco for a slightly more vintage feel.
It was given a repaint into a plain, slightly battered livery.
An early test shoot, using another model in the collection, a Peckett.
So that's the first board; more coming, on the countryside, and the village.
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