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Hi all,
With only one more show left this year for Walmington Pier Tramway, I now think about planning for its annual winter overhaul. In addition to the usual touching up of paintwork that's been scratched, peeled or faded, I will have to replace the plastic water-effect sheeting as the existing sheets (which have been in place 5 years) have seen better days.
I have been advised a few times that my end-board of Totland Bay Hotel (IoW) at the shore end doesn't do the pier any favours largely because the lines of perspective change. Now looking at this fading scene I agree.
The board will be removed and a modified Dapol platform canopy will straddle the shore end as both station and pavillion. There will be no buffer stop at this end for I would like to improve operation by 100%! Pier Tram No.1 will remain in service and in conjunction with my Peco loco-lift, will swap places with either a works car or my finely-tuned Bachmann Gandy Dancer (Pump Trolley).
Very little change is planned for the pier head other than what I found on an Edwardian postcard of Herne Bay pier head where its tramway (1898-1939) buffer stop was illuminated by a cut-down gas lamp - I will replicate this feature on my own pier head!
Herne Bay Pier Head as it has been since storm damage in 1978.
Just watch this space over the winter months!
Dave.
With only one more show left this year for Walmington Pier Tramway, I now think about planning for its annual winter overhaul. In addition to the usual touching up of paintwork that's been scratched, peeled or faded, I will have to replace the plastic water-effect sheeting as the existing sheets (which have been in place 5 years) have seen better days.

I have been advised a few times that my end-board of Totland Bay Hotel (IoW) at the shore end doesn't do the pier any favours largely because the lines of perspective change. Now looking at this fading scene I agree.

The board will be removed and a modified Dapol platform canopy will straddle the shore end as both station and pavillion. There will be no buffer stop at this end for I would like to improve operation by 100%! Pier Tram No.1 will remain in service and in conjunction with my Peco loco-lift, will swap places with either a works car or my finely-tuned Bachmann Gandy Dancer (Pump Trolley).

Very little change is planned for the pier head other than what I found on an Edwardian postcard of Herne Bay pier head where its tramway (1898-1939) buffer stop was illuminated by a cut-down gas lamp - I will replicate this feature on my own pier head!

Herne Bay Pier Head as it has been since storm damage in 1978.
Just watch this space over the winter months!
Dave.