The other end of Penwith Station has had the tunnel portal decorated and the under track access to the goods yard fitted out with bridge girders and stone walls.
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| Plastered in portal ready for the underpass wall installation. |
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| The retaining walls were all curved so I used some double laminated 2mm cardboard to hold the shapes. |
The landscape was then covered with polar fleece, the material pullovers or sweaters are made from. One side of the material is quite short shaven, the other has a longer "furry" look to it, which is the side I used to show. Its all glued down with PVA glue. Being a stretchy material it will pull over all types of undulating surfaces. Its then trimmed with a small pair of curved scissors along the profile edge.
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| What a difference some grasses, bushes and trees make here. |
The bridge girders were scratch built from styrene of a typical design seen on the Great Western Railway. These were simply glued on to the 6mm MDF track bed.
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| The portal now requires the inside walls to be installed to complete. |
The telegraph pole seen here is the last pole on the telegraph lines that come through Penwith Station. Above the portal there will be houses, so the communication lines need to pass through the tunnel. Therefore electric cable trunking was installed to this pole, down to the track side, and run into the tunnel. It would then come out the other end of the tunnel and up another telegraph pole and continue on to next signal box along the line.
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| Telegraph pole with cable trunking. |
An update on the Viaduct side of the layout will be forthcoming shortly!
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