Not on display

Drawing

1955-1960 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This layout plan was drawn by the donor to accompany his Lone Star railway models and equipment collected as a boy in the mid 1950s.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hand drawing on paper
Brief description
Paper drawing for use with a model railway layout made in England by Lone Star in the late 1950s
Physical description
A single sheet of cream coloured foolscap size paper printed on one side. The blank side has a drawing covering its bottom half showing the planned layout of a model railway. The track layout is in blue biro with annotations as to where the stations, gradient posts and viaduct also in blue. Further annotations indicating where the track types and points should be placed are written in green biro.
The printed side of the paper is a unfilled form headed River and listing various species that might be found in one.
Dimensions
  • Height: 32.5cm
  • Width: 20cm
Credit line
Given by Godfrey Cole
Object history
The layout was drawn by the donor to accompany his collection of Lone Star railway models and equipment.
Summary
This layout plan was drawn by the donor to accompany his Lone Star railway models and equipment collected as a boy in the mid 1950s.
Collection
Accession number
B.177-2014

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Record createdMay 1, 2015
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