Are there any signals for the L & B available as kits. I know of the etchings.
Horace
OK no kits. Are there any scale drawings of the signals and of the controls and switch rodding? I need to figure out how to set it up.
Thank you
Horace
To be honest I doubt if it was something that was recorded directly and as the line had beed lifted by 1936 there is unlikelt to be anyone around who remembers...
The best thing to do would be to get as many photographs of the station you are modelling and use them as the basis for a 'best guess'.
If it is of any help my copy of the David & Charles book I have on the L&B mentions "Messers Evans, O'Donnell & Co. Ltd." as the signalling contractors for the line. One page in the book mentions that the posts were wooden and the signal arms were of a Midland (Railway?) type, and that when the Southern Railway took over in 1923 some of the wooden posts were replaced by London and South Western Railway lattice type posts and Southern Railway Rail-Built posts, with the Midland type arms replaced with London and South Western Railway signal arms. The book also notes that the up home signal at Woody Bay was an upper quadrant type (the only one on the line).
I know that Model Signal Engineering do a selection of parts to make signals and might do some of their parts (or something that looks like what is in any photos) that you might find useful. They have a website that Google should be able to find.
Another thought would be to have a look at the County Gate website and to contact the owner of the layout to see how he did his signalling.
Most of my signalling is not prototype L&B as we are the 'freelance extension'. Many signals were replaced by Southern using rail posts. Model Signal Engineering do supply sufficient bits to make scale signals.
best
JdF
Thanks John.
@ Horace
I just had a thought about the point rodding. There are kits available in the UK for doing this. Colin Whate (not sure of the spelling though) and Brassmasters used to supply etched brass 'stools' for use with square section rod for scale point rodding. It might be worth looking at the suppliers section of the Scalefour Society website for details. Admittedly it will be for stndard gauge but I can't imagine that that ysed for narrow gauge in the UK would be any different.
MSE also do point rodding
JdF
Brassmasters do a nice range too - see
http://www.brassmasters.co.uk/track_details.htm
Richard
If anyone is still interested, I own a L&B blueprint book with signals in it. I can work up a 3D print if interested.
Details of the signalling used on the former Lynton & Barnstaple Railway can be found on webpage < http://www.trainweb.org/railwest/railco/minor/lb-portal.html#HOP (http://www.trainweb.org/railwest/railco/minor/lb-portal.html#HOP) > and its eight sub-pages. The author has a life long interest in railway signalling and the L&BR in particular.
Chris