Help with dimensions for viaduct please

"Ian" wrote

If you're not going to create a scale model then why not estimate some dimensions from photographs. You'll have a datum point if you use a shot with a train going across

John.

Sound advice John, I have indeed tried estimating from photographs and found the estimates vary so wildly from one photo to the next that I am suspicious of the results, still I think this is the way I will go if no hard data shows up.

Ian

I built a viaduct for a layout a couple of years ago and I used the dimensions of a 2 track Station that I found online (I think at the 2mm Society website) I just added a little to the plaform height to give me the parapet height

Try getting an aerial photo from

Thanks David,

The 45', 6' and 18' foot dimensions are probably the most critical, along with other suggestions regarding parapet height I think I have enough to be going on with. Hopefully I will be making a start this weekend.

Thanks again to everyone for all the suggestions and Info.

Ian

Ian wrote:-

Move to Coventry. We have a similar viaduct running through the centre of town although a large section fell down in 1857 and was rebuilt as an embankment. Up until then it was the longest in europe.

(kim)

Thanks Kim, but I think I'll stay here in the Sun! which does rather make up for the lack of railways.

Ian - In sunny Bermuda

Ian wrote:-

Ooops. I misread your post as 400 miles from Ribblehead. (Bloody dyslexia).

kim