Adjacent to Ballarat C Box was a large building that housed the Yard supervisor/foremen and numbertakers office, shunters messroom, locker room and toilets. The back of the building was supported on tall stumps with bracing as it sat partly over the side of the embankment that the Ballarat rail yards was situated on.
A Cardboard mock-up was used to make sure that the buildings fitted the space available and look right next to the mock-up of the signal box.
As I didn't have any plans of these buildings I scaled them based on standard door and window sizes and the standard 20ft portable situated at the eastern end of this group of buildings.
The building is made out of Evergreen Styrene, clapboard (4081) for the walls, 40 thou strips for end stops, 20 thou strips for facia and barge boards and channel (263) for the guttering. The windows are Micro Engineering Company 28" × 64" (80-068).
The chimney flues are made out of nails or brass tube. The corrugated iron is home made supported on cardboard base. The roof has been made removalable so that I can add a detailed interior at a later date.
The building is largely complete although it still needs window glazing, a few downpipes and an additional chimney added.
The yard buildings also needed to be weathered but I'm not sure to what level I should do this. The prototype photos that I used to build the buildings (are from later than the period that I'm modelling) show dirt/dust high up the walls, which I assume came from passing trains.
Once the building is complete I'll add the details around the buildings that can be seen in the photos (fencing, bench seat, briquette bin etc.). We are lucky that there are railway infrastructure images online of these and other buildings on the stations past and Pilbara Rail websites
http://www.stationspast.net/victoria/ballarat/
https://www.pilbararailways.com.au/gallery/index.php?cat=2&page=2
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