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A restart is made.

RichardW1

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Maxstoke- restarted

After a break of several years, I have decided to re-start work on Maxstoke, a model of the only intermediate station on the ‘Stonebridge Railway’, a single track connecting line running from Hampton in Arden ( the LNWR east of Birmingham ) roughly northwards to join the Birmingham-Derby line of the Midland Railway at Whitacre.

The inspiration for the model was a picture of the simple station building in an article published in the BRJ some years ago and the station building model was constructed from the photos before any work on the layout.

I visited the site to measure up the surviving road overbridge, and get an impression of the land surrounding the site. The station buildings have long been demolished, but the trackbed is just about accessible, and the site of the buildings and footings are buried in the undergrowth.

The trackbeds for two baseboards were cut from ply and the track started, using PCB sleepers and etched chairplates. The station board was built and there the project stopped. And was largely forgotten about, languishing on top of a wardrobe gathering dust.

The recent acquisition of Wickes own adjustable trestles, in order that I could do some work on the goods yard trackwork for Copenhagen Fields, made me realise that work could now recommence.

 

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Second baseboard under construction

 

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Maxstoke station.- Still a pile of work to do!

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RichardW1

nice looking station building

Thanks Nick- enlarging the picture is cruel- it's still covered in about 8 years dust, and requires some attention to get to an acceptable standard. I have the original picture that inspired the project and will upload that for comparison sometime.

Richard

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Thought it was about time you pulled your finger out!!

Seriously, great to see this resorected. Look forward to seeing it finished.

 

Jerry

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Fantastic Richard!

 

Is there any chance of an entry to show the background history to the layout please? Track plan, size, era etc? Just so I can get a feel for the layout. From what I can see so far it looks very interesting.

 

Missy :)

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RichardW1

Fantastic Richard!

 

Is there any chance of an entry to show the background history to the layout please? Track plan, size, era etc? Just so I can get a feel for the layout. From what I can see so far it looks very interesting.

 

Missy :)

I'll be putting some background info up of course. I did start a blog on Blogger when it all started, but I had the PC that all the data was on stolen, (and no back-up data!). I have searched in google for it but with no luck ;-(

 

The baseboards are 1m x 400mm wide, and period will be early 1920's (Midland/LMS transition).

 

Richard

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RichardW1

Hi Mookie

It was an article in BRJ that was the initial spark, it carried all the relevant info. For the building I just counted bricks, and filled in the rest from guesswork.

R

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