Topley Dale has gained a third bridge scene with a new four-arch low height viaduct being built for the diversion route. MIKE WILD explains how it was assembled using the popular Wills kit.
Above: The new four-arch viaduct has created an attractive new vista on the Topley Dale diversion route. KR Models’ GT3 crosses with a passenger working as an Oxford Diecast Volvo Amazon passes underneath.
THE DESIGN FOR TOPLEY Dale’s diversion route features a road under the railway and I wanted a waterway to pass under the line too to create that sense of the railway cutting through a rolling landscape. Those two elements combined meant bridges were required to allow the railway to cross both in a realistic manner.
When I started on the project I had always envisaged two separate bridges – one for the road and one for the waterway – but on measuring up the scene it soon became apparent that the original vision wasn’t going to work as I had hoped. The separate structures meant replicating the style of the road over bridge nearby or a structure type which just wasn’t suited to its purpose or the style of the area.
Having considered everything, tested a couple of different ideas against the trackbed and thought a little further there was an o…
