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Carndonagh Station - the Indoor Section, Part 4

22/2/2015

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At the West end of the station the line disappears through a hole in the workshop wall, supposedly leading to the goods yard, and the connection and exchange siding with the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway. In order to disguise this hole, I have built a watermill on one side of the line and a low relief goods shed on the other side.

The goods shed is made from two pieces of OSB sheet cut to the profile of the gable end of the building. The outermost piece has had apertures cut to accept a window and double doors. The window and the pair of doors were salvaged from the ruined Culdaff loco shed.

The back piece was painted black in the areas that would be behind the window and door apertures, the window was then glued in place behind the front sheet, and the two pieces of OSB, plus a further spacing strip on the rear of the right side were screwed together; the spacing strip was used to enable the shed to be angled away from the backscene so that it is more or less at right angles to the track.

The walls were clad with dressed stone effect plastic sheet and the roof with embossed slate sheet. Bargeboards made from plastic sheet, and guttering were then added. The stonework, roof and bargeboards were painted and finally, the doors were glued in place.
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The pieces of OSB
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Ready for painting.
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Finished shed in position. Note the door of the 'hole' is closed.
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Carndonagh Station - the Indoor Section, Part 3

16/2/2015

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The two road locomotive shed and works at Carndonagh is five feet six inches long (1.65m, 110 scale feet) but only the front ten scale feet is modelled; the shed lines run off stage through the backscene and under a raised storage area in the real world workshop. The modelled part of the loco shed is therefore only a short low relief structure.

The basic framework was made from Filcris recycled plastic topped with gables made from offcuts of OSB timber. A false roof was added made from some old plastic signs, the interior wall that is visible from the normal viewing angle was detailed with embossed planked Plastikard and Evergreen plastic strip framing. A window and roof vent were salvaged from the now ruined single road shed at Culdaff.

The exterior was clad in scale size sheets of corrugated aluminium and then painted matt black, the interior was painted in a dull brown shade. A set of fire irons were hung on the framing inside the entrance. The shed should really have some doors but I think these will get in the way in what is a confined space, maybe one day I will add some.
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The basic structure with salvaged window added.
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Shed clad in corrugated sheet.
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Completed shed in position.
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Carndonagh Station - the Indoor Section, Part 2

3/2/2015

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The completed water tower is now on site, along with the hut and urinal.
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