Private Siding Gates

Latest additions are another palisade fence, this time from N Brass Locos, and private siding gates made from balsa wood. The style of gate we adopted is of the Southern Railway cross braced level crossing type.

The only photo we have that shows the gates is from 'Britain From Above', which shows a blurry distant view. Nevertheless we are pretty sure from this that it was a double gate but whether it had a red target like level crossing gates we cannot be certain. From other accounts we understand there was no standard in this respect. We have seen a photo of another location that has no red target plate.

To clear the rails the model gates sit a lot higher than the surrounding ground level. They can be be opened and closed by hand with care.

David & Ed.