STROLEY INTERNATIONAL | My New Modern Image Model Railway Layout

My latest updates may be read from the top of this page ....

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This is an Ongoing Project - More Updates Soon.

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FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, MY SITE DOESN'T ALWAYS LOAD CORRECTLY

WHEN VIEWED IN THE INTERNET EXPLORER BROWSER.

I EDIT IN THE MOZILLA FIREFOX BROWSER WHICH DOES LOAD CORRECTLY.

PLEASE USE THE LATTER (OR SIMILAR) FOR VIEWING MY SITE

AS I ORIGINALLY INTENDED.

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LATEST ACQUISITIONS:-

The latest HORNBY releases are now through from MODELFAIR.

These include the Advenza Freight Class 66,

The DB Schenker Class 59 and

the East Midlands Trains' HST Open First (x2) and TGS coaches.

I have also added another collection to my scale "1:1" photographic website

entitled .... An HOUR or so at St. NEOTS (2).

Please click HERE for my Fotopic site.

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LATEST UPDATE:- 30 - 08 - 10.

The MOTORWAY BRIDGE section of the layout is now complete.

Six or seven years ago whilst building the Stroley International predecessor Stroley Central,

I came across an extremely useful book called ....

The DEPARTMENT of TRANSPORT - KNOW YOUR TRAFFIC SIGNS (Official Edition).

Google "Know Your Traffic Signs" and it will download in PDF / Adobe Acrobat format.

Since then, it has become my "signs" Bible.

So during the last few days, I've been busy indoors trawling through my "grey matter" picking the scenario I wish to portray on the Motorway Bridge.

Having travelled, during my last 25 years of employment, 1.3 million miles up and down the UK motorway network, I had quite an array to draw upon. I really like, and hope you do too, the eventuality as seen in the montage below.

The last photo (below) of this montage shows a motorway sign that I made up on my PC in Microsoft Office Word. The districts of Stroley are made up but actually feature in my layout history.

"LINDEVEN" is the area in which the DMU maintenance / stabling area is situated, with the Lindeven Engineering Company as a neighbour.

"FITZWILLIAM"is actually "off stage" but is the destination of the "Yard Line" that runs through the cutting as the fifth (inside) line and out into the Fitzwilliam (goods) Yard.

The blue background of this sign is a pretty close copy of the actual Motorway Sign colour and obtained from the "Microsoft Word" pool of colours. The white "arrows" were cut from a piece of copier paper, shaped and stuck onto the appropriate place. The "Junction Number" was shaped in the Microsoft Office Excel" PC programme.

The "font" used is called "TRANSPORT" and again, downloadable ... just "Google" it.

The "M 14" is a ficticious motorway so Stroley cannot be visualised in an actual area of the UK.

The "NARROW LANES" sign was copied from my "signs Bible" mentioned above along with the other motorway signs.

The MacDonalds advertisement was obtained from their website.

The lorries on the motorway are (if my memory serves me correctly) 1:87 scale.

I purchased these a few years ago (so certainly unavailable now) from

MODERN-STRUCTURES-in-MINIATURE.

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