A Different Aspect

Those of you who follow our companion Bron Hebog blog will be familiar with the work of Himself, aka David Waller, who when not building the layout and stock for our Welsh Highland epic can be found employing his skills on other Cooper Hire MRC projects, notably New Mills.

Over the last few days he has attended to the 2 aspect signals on the gantry that protects the down loop exit on New Mill's high level line, one of which was was suffering from a blown LED and with the structure itself looking rather tired. So rather than simply replace the damaged LED it was just as easy the rebuild the complete signal. We have used LED’s with built in resistors this time to avoid the risk of damaging the LED’s when testing, as it’s very easy to forget to include a resistor in the test circuit when doing a quick check.  

In the photo below the signal gantry has been stripped of the old railings, wiring and signal heads. The joint between the upright and the signal platform has been resoldered and new wiring installed.  New LED’s have been fitted into the replacement face plates.

The two pics below show the signal heads completed and under test. The platform has been drilled to accept the new uprights for the railings. Everything has been rebuilt to the exact dimensions of the original bracket constructed by Phill Hutchings.

Below is the completed and repainted signal, just waiting to be reunited with the layout.

And here it is, restored to the layout earlier today.