Platforms.

Sarah Winfield · 12 Jul 2018

How do members build their station platforms please?

My layout is really a higgled-piggled/hotch-potch affair and I'm looking at installing some all-weather low-level; as opposed to the usual UK height; platforms.

Members thoughts would be appreciated please.

Thank you,

Sarah Winfield

Gavin Sowry · 12 Jul 2018

Here we are, buy one, get one free.

Station shelter is on a paving slab, simple. The other way is to use crushed Lime.... spread it out, level it off, and tamp with the flat side of a 4x2 (or 2x4 for our American friends).

playmofire · 12 Jul 2018

LGB offer one - LGB 50340 Station Platforms, 12 Pieces/Chalk Garden Rail - and they do come up on eBay, alhough the price can be high. (I have some which are used infrequently so may be avaliable at some time ).

Playmobil used to offer a set and the platform and rail crossing parts come up on eBay, too., but watch out for heavily discoloured ones, although a quick respray with grey primer solves the problem.

Pola I imagine offer something too.

Zerogee · 12 Jul 2018

Both Pola and Piko offer plastic platform sections, I think.

Jon.

G-force1 · 12 Jul 2018

Hmmm! Platforms?

I haven't worn them since the sixties!

('nineteen' that is, before anyone starts!)

David1226 · 12 Jul 2018

G-force1 said:
Hmmm! Platforms?

I haven't worn them since the sixties!

('nineteen' that is, before anyone starts!)

I still wear flared trousers.... the only trouble is now they are flared from the waist down

David

PhilP · 12 Jul 2018

Thin paving.. Old roofing slate.. Old quarry tiles... Bit of wood wrapped in roofing felt (doesn't last too long)..

Anything flat, that won't blow-away, is not too thick or heavy, really..

Local skips, where building work is taking place, are a good source.. - I always ask first.. Amazing what you get offered once they know what it is for..

wandgrudd · 12 Jul 2018

Sarah,

see 9mm Flat UPVC Soffit Boards | Eurocell works fine.

Andrew.

LGB-Sid · 12 Jul 2018

Hi Mine are made from PVC Foam Board they could be made at any height to suit , mine are UK ish main line height

BakerJohn · 12 Jul 2018

LGB-Sid said:
Hi Mine are made from PVC Foam Board they could be made at any height to suit , mine are UK ish main line height

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Sid, what height might that be? I love the look of your platforms, and hope (someday) to build something similar.

LGB-Sid · 12 Jul 2018

BakerJohn said:
Sid, what height might that be? I love the look of your platforms, and hope (someday) to build something similar.

Hi 35mm from top of Rail to top of platform a bit short for UK standard height but they looked about right so whet for that height.

BakerJohn · 12 Jul 2018

LGB-Sid said:
Hi 35mm from top of Rail to top of platform a bit short for UK standard height but they looked about right so whet for that height.

I wonder if there's any difference between UK and US standard platforms...

PhilP · 12 Jul 2018

BakerJohn said:
I wonder if there's any difference between UK and US standard platforms...

It always appears a lot further 'up' to US stock, than British.. - This only from photographs / film.

Zerogee · 12 Jul 2018

Continental European platforms (particularly German), at least for Narrow Gauge prototypes, appear to be much lower - ground level in some cases - so that passengers almost always climb "up" into the coaches, which all have steps to facilitate this. I always feel that LGB European stock thus looks better with low platforms.......

Jon.

BakerJohn · 12 Jul 2018

Well, older American stock was the same way, wasn't it? Then we got lazy and decided climbing was too much work...

FrenchChuffed · 12 Jul 2018

I have probably always over engineered my platforms especially if there curved I do low level ones in concrete with some inlaid conduit for lighting.

PhilP · 13 Jul 2018

FrenchChuffed said:
I have probably always over engineered my platforms especially if there curved I do low level ones in concrete with some inlaid conduit for lighting.

At least then you can use them as a safe 'stepping point' to get to the back of a layout.. Excellent at ground-level..

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