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The biggest problem I have at the moment is what type of building is the transit shed going to be?
I could make it a typical railway company goods warehouse but that would make it dominate the layout, something I do not want to. If it was to be a goods warehouse that would tie the layout down geographically - again something I don't want to do.
I could model a typical British Railway railway building - a fabricated unit consisting of a roof on top of a steel frame, such as the one at Pensnett. No, this is too simple and would not hide the manual unloading of the loads off the wagons. Hmmm...too simple!
I could model a brick-built structure such as the one at the Tyneside Central Freight Depot. Trouble is, when I passed the site back in '93 the buildings had been razed to the ground.
The last option would be to have the sidings as a part of a former steelworks, similar to Warrington Dallam sidings on which the layout is based. Once the company have closed the site would they have dismantled the building??? The building would have had a crane inside to allow for the unloading of opens/flats within the building itself. Nice. This is what I want but how to justify it without restricting the layout to the movement of steel traffic only, as I would like to be able to incorporate other wagons on the layout as well.
Answer: whilst doing some research for Lucy's Burton on Trent layout I was looking in the Freight Only - Volume 2, Southern and Central England, where I found the solution. There are 3 exBR-owned steel terminals at Wolverhamton, Wednesbury and Brierley Hill. Wednesbury deals with sawn timber from Luxembourg and Brierley Hill deals with aluminium billets from Fort William.
All I need to do now is to add some modeller's licence to the proceedings and away I go!!! Oh, and do some more planning and building of the layout as well.
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