Trivia: Stations or other locations that resemble a model railway

[TheEdge]

Ipswich could be adapted into a model I suppose. Tunnel at one end of the platforms, very steep wooded hill behind and with some artistic license and compression the bridge over East Suffolk Junction could be closer to the station.

 

[tsr]

A few from the Southern area...
Hastings (but perhaps with the local tunnels brought closer)
Dorking (complete with Betchworth Tunnel to the south and the signalbox at the north end, but reverting to an older station building!)
Lewes (with a tunnel, interesting layout and sharp curves, possibly with a view to referencing historic arrangements)
Reigate (although focussing on the buildings and scenery north of the line, rather than the eyesores immediately to the south; you could include the signalbox, old footbridge, station buildings and the old sidings all along the line to Redhill)

 

[Merciful Zeus!]

Did it still exist, Ventnor (Isle of Wight) would be a great example. Built into the hillside like a quarry/amphitheatre, with the single line emerging from a tunnel and fanning out into sidings and two/three platforms. I'm almost certain there was a turntable too.

In the same vein, the old Winchester Chesil station and its surroundings would make a good model.

 

[Merciful Zeus!]

Ipswich could be adapted into a model I suppose. Tunnel at one end of the platforms, very steep wooded hill behind and with some artistic license and compression the bridge over East Suffolk Junction could be closer to the station.

If we're talking tunnels, the obvious has to be St Leonards Warrior Square - tunnels immediately at both ends of the station, but otherwise completely in daylight.

 

[Railcar]

Lewes (with a tunnel, interesting layout and sharp curves, possibly with a view to referencing historic arrangements)

Don't forget the signal box, still operating as an island independent of Three Bridges and guarded by The Black Owl Of Lewes at the top of the steps.
With a bit of foreshortening, the Kingston tunnel on the line to Brighton could be included and adding Sotherham Junction would give the branch to Newhaven and Seaford which comes off the line to Eastbourne.

 

[squizzler]

Averdovey on the Cambrian line is a chocolate-box fishing village with the railway squeezing between the houses on tunnels and bridges.

 

[Lucan]

Longmoor Military Railway had a continuous circuit within an area of about a square mile. It was to give a good run for crew training. It had two branches, one north to Bordon Station (LSWR when first connected) and one south to Liss Station (SR), and lots of storage sidings in the middle. It must have had some tight curves, yet Austerity 2-10-0 locos ran on it.

 

[satisnek]

In terms of track layout, Birmingham International (as originally built). It's the kind of station one would find on a 1950s tail-chaser (before the advent of hidden loops at the rear), where trains could be held in platform loops. I never did understand the rationale behind this station, but these days the installation of just one additional crossover has made it rather more 'useful'.

 

[vlad]

If you're after a station with a loco works and a tunnel at each end of the site then the obvious answer is Haverthwaite.

 

[BantamMenace]

I’ve always fancied modelling Keighley as it has the interest of a junction, turntable, signal box and goods siding in on one half and a modern electrified line on the other half. The station building is also on an over bridge and the lines both head out and along different valleys (artistic license needed for modelling).

 

[Cowley]

Lapford is a bit of a beauty for this thread.
Bridges at both ends.
A passing loop and a yard served by speedlink services until the late 1980s/early 1990s.
You could even run class 50s on prototypical three coach trains if you set it sometime around 1990...

This wonderful photo was taken from the very unusual three arch A377 bridge, by Ron Kosys in June 1984.
It's absolutely a model railway in 12 inches to the foot scale I reckon.

 

[Gathursty]

Penhelig
Minffordd
Sheringham too but not as interesting given the level crossing is hardly used.

 

[theageofthetra]

Charlton would be a good one. Tunnels either side, level crossing, over bridges, three sharply diverging routes including a freight line and a 90 degree curve.

 

[AlastairFraser]

What about Ongar and North Weald Bassett on the E and 0? North Weald Bassett is more interesting operationally, the rolling stock is old-fashioned and you could even place one of those vintage double deckers they run around the area in a model of the station forecourt.

 

[Iskra]

Edinburgh Waverley being flanked by tunnels is quite a good one.

Haymarket too; tunnels at one end, plus being a junction, a bay platform (modellers seem to love these) and having a depot close by.

 

[Cowley]

Haymarket too; tunnels at one end, plus being a junction, a bay platform (modellers seem to love these) and having a depot close by.

Mmm. In the 1980s please. With lots of Scotrail liveried 47/7s...

 

[backontrack]

Conwy.

 

[Iskra]

Ipswich could be adapted into a model I suppose. Tunnel at one end of the platforms, very steep wooded hill behind and with some artistic license and compression the bridge over East Suffolk Junction could be closer to the station.

Ipswich would be great; plenty of loco-hauled workings, movements on the depot, the terminus of some local workings and then the engine swaps on the Freightliner workings.

I’ve always fancied modelling Keighley as it has the interest of a junction, turntable, signal box and goods siding in on one half and a modern electrified line on the other half. The station building is also on an over bridge and the lines both head out and along different valleys (artistic license needed for modelling).

Agree with this one. Quite a bit of rolling stock variety too.

 

[Deepgreen]

I nominate Bradford-on-Avon - from west to east in quick succession: river bridge, station, tunnel, level crossing and then river at the side. The juxtaposition of tunnel and level crossing is pure modelling territory! See photo:

 

[Cowley]

I nominate Bradford-on-Avon - from west to east in quick succession: river bridge, station, tunnel, level crossing and then river at the side. The juxtaposition of tunnel and level crossing is pure modelling territory! See photo:
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That's definitely a good one. Plenty of interesting workings as well.

 

[Deepgreen]

Lapford is a bit of a beauty for this thread.
Bridges at both ends.
A passing loop and a yard served by speedlink services until the late 1980s/early 1990s.
You could even run class 50s on prototypical three coach trains if you set it sometime around 1990...
View attachment 57911
This wonderful photo was taken from the very unusual three arch A377 bridge, by Ron Kosys in June 1984.
It's absolutely a model railway in 12 inches to the foot scale I reckon.

I like the two trap points within points!

 

[d9009alycidon]

Edinburgh Waverley being flanked by tunnels is quite a good one.

The West End and Princes Street Gardens has been done - and really well too - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/in...ey-west-princes-st-gardens-and-haymarket-mpd/

Few other Scottish ones that have been done - Glasgow Queen Street (been done a couple of times), Glasgow Buchanan Street (I have a model based on this), Greenock Princes Pier and Stranraer Harbour.

 

[delt1c]

Hackney Downs Northbound, Enfield lines bear left and Chingford bear right (then enter a tunnel)

 

[Journeyman]

Lapford is a bit of a beauty for this thread.
Bridges at both ends.
A passing loop and a yard served by speedlink services until the late 1980s/early 1990s.
You could even run class 50s on prototypical three coach trains if you set it sometime around 1990...
View attachment 57911
This wonderful photo was taken from the very unusual three arch A377 bridge, by Ron Kosys in June 1984.
It's absolutely a model railway in 12 inches to the foot scale I reckon.

The Peco N Gauge track plan book makes reference to Lapford and has a plan based on it.

 

[Cowley]

The Peco N Gauge track plan book makes reference to Lapford and has a plan based on it.

I think I might have that somewhere. I'll dig it out later.

 

[Clansman]

Strood

 

[Tracked]

I'd have said Sheffield for the same reason as Edinburgh Waverley, some interesting & differnet buildings round it (the flats, the Cholera Monument) and the additional tram option.
Nearby there's Dore & Totley, which was have to be the full triangle, obviously
Matlock-Matlock bath (including the cable cars and Peak Rail)

 

[HaggisBotherer]

The obvious one is Goathland ....... Looks identical to the Hornby models!

Also Dent

You can add Dunster (WSR) to that list too!

And High Brooms...

 

[Cowley]

Of course Ashburton was always considered to be the most modelled archetypal branch line terminus.
So much so that ended up becoming a bit of a cliche a few years ago...
Still a bit of a classic though.

 

[randyrippley]

Douglas, IOM