Hereford UK in N Gauge

[rogerfarnworth 4]

I have been modelling Hereford's railways in N for a number of years. The vicarage loft has provided excellent space to do this. This has resulted in a growing interest in the North West Route through the Welsh Marches. Thus first blog post in  this thread relates to some of the websites I have visited while exploring the potential of the area around Hereford for modelling:

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/herefordshire-railways

 

This is the first in a series of posts about the layout that I have been developing in the Vicarage loft over the past few years. The layout includes Barrscourt Station in Hereford, and the MPD in the Barton area of Hereford.

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/n-gauge-loft-layout-hereford-1

 

This is next post in a series about a layout representing Hereford in the UK:

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/n-gauge-loft-layout-hereford-2

 

I'll post more news in due course.

Edited April 13, 2018 by rogerfarnworth

[rogerfarnworth 4]

The ongoing construction of the loft layout.

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/n-gauge-loft-layout-hereford-3

This next post provides a few local photos and a link to an album of relevant photos that I have created on Flickr.

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/n-gauge-loft-layout-hereford-4

I also took a whole series of photographs around the railway and the city of Hereford so that I could begin to imagine the placement of the railway in its environment. The link takes you via my blog to the google photo site:

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/hereford-pictures-taken-before-2015

 

Edited April 13, 2018 by rogerfarnworth

[rogerfarnworth 4]

A further post in the story of the loft layout:

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/n-gauge-loft-layout-hereford-5

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One of the iconic structures which was part of the station at Hereford was the platform signal box.

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/n-gauge-loft-layout-hereford-6

These pictures show the signal box from the previous post in position on the layout - just two pictures ....

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/n-gauge-loft-layout-hereford-7-2

The footbridge at Hereford Barrscourt Station has recently been completely rebuilt. Until then the skeleton of the old footbridge remained in place but in a much less photogenic condition than the original. The old footbridge bore some similarities to the one at Gloucester.

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/n-gauge-loft-layout-hereford-7

 

The image below shows the footbridge in the late 1950s

The main feature of any layout is usually the railway station. I was delighted when my father-in-law, who had his own O-Gauge layout decided to make the station building for me in N-Gauge. ..... This is the first of a series of posts about the construction of the station building:

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/hereford-the-construction-of-barrs-court-station-1

 

Edited April 14, 2018 by rogerfarnworth

[rogerfarnworth 4]

The next post in the story of the construction of the N Gauge model of Hereford Barrscourt Station:

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/hereford-the-construction-of-barrs-court-station-2

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The third post about the making of Hereford Station Building:

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/hereford-the-constriction-of-barrs-court-station-3

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This fourth post about the making of the Station building contains details of the design work on 'Paint'

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/hereford-the-construction-of-barrs-court-station-4

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The story of the construction of Hereford station building in N-Gauge continues:

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/hereford-the-construction-of-barrs-court-station-5

 

 

[rogerfarnworth 4]

February 2018 update on the construction of the loft layout of Hereford Station and MPD

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/hereford-model-railway-vicarage-loft

The card models on the layout were constructed from drawings made on 'Paint'. I have just loaded drawings of the Signal Box at the North of the Station and of the Station footbridge onto my blog. The relevant links are:

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/hereford-north-station-signal-box-n-gauge-card-model

and

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/hereford-station-footbridge-model-in-n-gauge

David's last but one post:

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/hereford-barrs-court-station/

This is the final post from David about his work on the model of Hereford Station:

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/hereford-the-construction-of-barrs-court-station-7

This is a link to a wider range of photos about the Hereford layout for the period to April 2018:

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/hereford-model-railway-various-early-progress-photographs

Apologies for the delay in posting the last few posts on this thread. Asv will be obvious from the last post providing a link to photographs, I thought I had posted this previous posts in April this year.

I was about to post an update for November 2018 when I realised that the earlier posts had not been added to the thread.

Progress has been very slow to non-existent. I was in my loft last week and thought a few pictures might be a good idea.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2018/11/10/hereford-in-the-loft-november-2018

Sadly other matters have demanded my time in recent months.