signalnorth Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Could anyone direct me to a scale drawing of a French Crossing Keepers Cottage? Â Thanks! Â Len Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, signalnorth said: Could anyone direct me to a scale drawing of a French Crossing Keepers Cottage?  Thanks!  Len Hi Len Which region/company? though the basic layout was generally the same there were variations.  This is a fairly typical example from a reprint of a book published in 1890 and is from the Grande Ceinture around the outer edges of Paris. Kitchen and living room downstairs and one or two bedrooms upstairs. Three chimney pots suggest a kitchen range downstairs and a fireplace in each of two bedrooms. I think a lot of them only had a single bedroom. No dimensions on the drawings but a standard door height should give everything else and this tells you more about the structure than most side and end elevation plans.   Typically there would have been side windows only on the ground floor with the According to the 1890 book, the Maison de garde would typically have been the home of a married couple, the husband being the cantonnier responsible for a section of line and the wife employed for a small extra wage as the crossing keeper. This is a more detailed plan from the PLM  but if you put Maison de Garde Barriere into your search engine you should find everything you need but let me know if you need more. Update I found a simple but dimensioned for 1:87 scale drawing for a typical PLM Maison de garde barrière here along with a number of photos. http://emily-bass.curtsingertrailers.net/garde-barrière    Edited June 29, 2020 by Pacific231G 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalnorth Posted June 30, 2020 Author Share Posted June 30, 2020 That is a rather superb post! Thank you so much ! I wasn’t really concerned with a specific region to be honest so that’s great! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) using that as a search helps. found this rather nice posting showing construction of a typical building. Would probably also make a nice station building as smallest versions were similar. https://modeliste17.forumactif.org/t51-construire-un-batiment-de-a-a-z-une-maison-de-garde-barrieres  and this one just needs printing out, but could be easily used to design model http://lignefictive.blogspot.com/2010/09/maison-de-garde-barriere-po.html   Edited June 30, 2020 by rue_d_etropal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalnorth Posted June 30, 2020 Author Share Posted June 30, 2020 3 hours ago, rue_d_etropal said: using that as a search helps. found this rather nice posting showing construction of a typical building. Would probably also make a nice station building as smallest versions were similar. https://modeliste17.forumactif.org/t51-construire-un-batiment-de-a-a-z-une-maison-de-garde-barrieres  and this one just needs printing out, but could be easily used to design model http://lignefictive.blogspot.com/2010/09/maison-de-garde-barriere-po.html   Thank you for this post too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalnorth Posted June 30, 2020 Author Share Posted June 30, 2020 On 29/06/2020 at 14:41, Pacific231G said: Hi Len Which region/company? though the basic layout was generally the same there were variations.  This is a fairly typical example from a reprint of a book published in 1890 and is from the Grande Ceinture around the outer edges of Paris. Kitchen and living room downstairs and one or two bedrooms upstairs. Three chimney pots suggest a kitchen range downstairs and a fireplace in each of two bedrooms. I think a lot of them only had a single bedroom. No dimensions on the drawings but a standard door height should give everything else and this tells you more about the structure than most side and end elevation plans.   Typically there would have been side windows only on the ground floor with the According to the 1890 book, the Maison de garde would typically have been the home of a married couple, the husband being the cantonnier responsible for a section of line and the wife employed for a small extra wage as the crossing keeper. This is a more detailed plan from the PLM  but if you put Maison de Garde Barriere into your search engine you should find everything you need but let me know if you need more. Update I found a simple but dimensioned for 1:87 scale drawing for a typical PLM Maison de garde barrière here along with a number of photos. http://emily-bass.curtsingertrailers.net/garde-barrière    Thank link not working for me sadly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 54 minutes ago, signalnorth said: Thank link not working for me sadly it sort of worked for me yesterday, but not today. I found another copy of that drawing via google Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spotlc Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Â This one is in Limousin, PO in origin, might help? Mike 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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