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Modelling Bridgnorth Station in OO
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Modelling Bridgnorth Station in OO
So for an upcoming model railway project, I am aiming to build a compressed version of Bridgnorth station on the Severn Valley Railway. As part of this project, I am hoping to build the custom station buildings out of either 2mm or 4mm balsa wood.
I understand that the first part of modelling a real world station is to find drawings of the building you aim to make, so I went and researched drawings of the main bridgnorth station when I came across the attached image. There is a scale of 1:100 on the image but I’m looking for advice on how to accurately scale this image in order to get my plan. Suggestions and advice are appreciated.
Thanks,
Haydn
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This is a simple maths problem. Your drawings are scaled at 1:100 but all measurements shown will be full scale 1:1 so all you need to do is divide all measurements by 76 for 00 scale or divide by 148 for N gauge. If you’re original measurements are in feet and inches use google to give you metric values.
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Thanks for the help Mike, it’s much appreciated. I’ve actually taken inspiration from the old shelf layout you were telling me about. I’ve decided to do it 30cm in width, and then 254cm along one wall, 423cm along the next and then 390cm along the third and final wall. Before this, I was struggling to find a way to fit it into the room I wanted to build it in. So thank you for the inspiration also!
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It’s amazing how much model railway you will be able to fit on the space mentioned, you should have a scaled length that at full scale you would have 3/4 of a mile in length. You can use sharpish curves in the corners but hid e them behind buildings.
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I’m looking forward to starting it Mike, I’ve chosen to use the PECO bullhead style track and then possibly somehow integrate the spare Hornby 3rd radius curves and Hide them either in tunnels or under a village so that each wall is it’s own separate scene brought together through the countryside.
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That sounds just like what I did, I did manage to with the use a loop at the far end of the U build a fiddle yard under the main station.
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