The station canopy post and frames

Components laid out for assembly

All the the posts needed with left
hand post painted to see
how it looked.

The canopy posts were made from a cube shaped bead (available from craft stores) with a centre collar made from cut up ball point pen ink tube, a piece of cable sheath, another cone shaped bead, a piece of square styrene tube, then all assembled onto a piece of copper wire. Post positions were marked and drilled; posts were then supaglued in position square.

Using masking tape - the centres were
marked for drilling a hole for
the posts to locate

Each post was glued in and made
verticle checking
with a small engineers square

A peice of rail was placed between
posts and a small spirit level used
to check they were level

Each hole was countersunk to let the
square base nestle in to the ballast
and have a good area to
secure with glue

A peice of Code 100 rail was glued
over theposts to help hold
them all together.

The brass girder in place. This was
where the old track used to exit the
end of the station - see the old photos
from an earlier post

Each post was set and checked for height - they all needed to be the same.The posts on the platform were obviously shorter and care had to taken while setting those up.

With all the canopy supports in and the end wall constructed, it starting to look something now.The special girder over where the old track used to exit the station was glued into position taking care to make it level, and was fabricated from some etched brass and styrene angles.

Now to connect the posts with truss frames.The lattice truss frames were added between the posts, these were cut and trimmed to length and are from the Central Valley "girder bridge trusses" range. Next will be the station building pavement area....

All components glued in with Supa-glue

The original canopy frames