GWR Stone Built Station Building kit?

[swiftbeam]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm going to be making a totally stereotypical, always summer, GWR layout, yet another one to add to the millions already out there LOL !!

 

I was always under the impression that Ratio made a lovely stone GWR station building to match the 522 engine shed, but now I've looked, no?

 

I'm wanting an stone station with the roof above the canopy or better still a whole level above and of small to average size.

 

I do not want card :-0

 

Does anybody know where I can buy a kit to suit my needs? 

 

Thanks.

[Miss Prism]

google

 

ratio gwr stone station building

 

(it's Ratio 504)

[Joseph_Pestell]

The Ratio GW station is based on Castle Cary, so not a true GW design but a good enough likeness.

 

I am not sure of the prototype for the engine shed but I don't see why the two should not be used together. Nothing to say that both would have been built at the same time.

[swiftbeam]

Hi,

Thanks for that, but 504 is not what I'm after. 

I'd like something bigger.

I've been Googling all afternoon :-(

Can't find anything.

[gwrrob]

Hi,

Thanks for that, but 504 is not what I'm after. 

I'd like something bigger.

I've been Googling all afternoon :-(

Can't find anything.

I don't know what your budget is but Timber Tracks do kits.

[Northroader]

There's a nice kit for West Bay just coming out, but it's O scale.

[swiftbeam]

Thank you for those, but I don't want wooden kits (not enough detail) and I'm modelling 00 gauge. My budget is whatever it takes to get whats in my mind:-)

[RailWest]

The Ratio GW station is based on Castle Cary, so not a true GW design ...

Ehh? Why do you say that?

There's a nice kit for West Bay just coming out, but it's O scale.

Oh - who is producing that please?

[gwrrob]

Can I ask why you don't want card as quite a few very nice scratchbuilt station buildings including mine have it somewhere in their construction.

[swiftbeam]

Can I ask why you don't want card as quite a few very nice scratchbuilt station buildings including mine have it somewhere in their construction.

 

Flat lifeless detail with a total lack of texture.

 

I no doubt have just offended you as you are clearly happy with your models.

I'm glad you are happy with your models, but I would like something different as I am a totally different person with different wants and needs, sorry.

Edited August 14, 2017 by swiftbeam

[57xx]

There is plenty of detail in the Timber Tracks kits.

[Joseph_Pestell]

Ehh? Why do you say that?

 

 

Because it was built before the GW took over the line.

[Joseph_Pestell]

Hi,

Thanks for that, but 504 is not what I'm after. 

I'd like something bigger.

I've been Googling all afternoon :-(

Can't find anything.

 

Apart from the big cities/towns, GW station buildings were rarely all that big. And most of those were brick not stone.

 

Very few more than single storey as the stationmaster's accommodation was usually in a separate house.

[rue_d_etropal]

Do you have a real station building in mind, just to give an idea.

I agree about  what you said about card built models, although nothing wrong in using some card in it. One reason I am designing my own for 3D printing.

[Barry Ten]

Better tell Pendon to stop using card.

[Danemouth]

Bachmann do Highley station house and adjacent waiting rooms in stone.

 

I use the Highley buildings on Danemouth. Pictures here:

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/112850-danemouth-mk-4/?p=2460665

 

Dave

[Blobrick]

There's a nice kit for West Bay just coming out, but it's O scale.

 

Sounds very interesting who's producing it?

[swiftbeam]

Better tell Pendon to stop using card.

 

Not telling anybody, it's a personal choice.

People can use whatever they they like, but on my railway, I want something different, because it's mine.

[LBRJ]

Because it was built before the GW took over the line.

 

Following that  idea ( out of curiosity ) just how few GWR  built stone stations were there? I can think of only St Ives in Cornwall off the top of my head!

[Northroader]

O gauge kits here http://www.invertrain.com/quick.php

[Northroader]

Following that  idea ( out of curiosity ) just how few GWR  built stone stations were there? I can think of only St Ives in Cornwall off the top of my head!

A lot of stations were swept away with the Beeching era closures of intermediate ones on the main lines, as well as branches. Generally it was brick in the Thames Valley and the Midlands, and stone in the West, with some timber thrown in generally. So you could get Culham, still there, for a brick example, and Stonehouse, gone, for a stone example, of the original style on the old GWR. Yatton, shows the associated Tudor styling in stone on the B&E, also Bradford on Avon.Then for the "chalet" type you have a brick Mortimer, existing on the Basingstoke line, and a stone Bridgend on the SWR. I think Ivybridge on the SDR was also this type. An associated type without the big roof was used on the Birmingham line, like Aynho. A simplified pattern then appeared, money being tighter. Wilton on the WSW section is a lovely brick job, but stone at Maiden Newton, and Watchet on the WSR, Saltash and Lostwithiel in Cornwall. A related house design also appeared on some smaller lines, Tintern in t the Wye Valley, and West Bay, Abbots bury, Portesham in Dorset, covered by Invertrains (i have no links with them, by the way. Some branches were done indepentantely, St. Ives, Helston, Ashburton, Moretonhampstead, Much Wenlock, for instance. Finally, there's the "French Renaissance" style, see Teignmouth, but there was a nice example at Cwmbran, and a smaller version at Caerau.

[JohnR]

A lot of stations were swept away with the Beeching era closures of intermediate ones on the main lines, as well as branches. Generally it was brick in the Thames Valley and the Midlands, and stone in the West, with some timber thrown in generally. So you could get Culham, still there, for a brick example, and Stonehouse, gone, for a stone example, of the original style on the old GWR. Yatton, shows the associated Tudor styling in stone on the B&E, also Bradford on Avon.Then for the "chalet" type you have a brick Mortimer, existing on the Basingstoke line, and a stone Bridgend on the SWR. I think Ivybridge on the SDR was also this type. An associated type without the big roof was used on the Birmingham line, like Aynho. A simplified pattern then appeared, money being tighter. Wilton on the WSW section is a lovely brick job, but stone at Maiden Newton, and Watchet on the WSR, Saltash and Lostwithiel in Cornwall. A related house design also appeared on some smaller lines, Tintern in t the Wye Valley, and West Bay, Abbots bury, Portesham in Dorset, covered by Invertrains (i have no links with them, by the way. Some branches were done indepentantely, St. Ives, Helston, Ashburton, Moretonhampstead, Much Wenlock, for instance. Finally, there's the "French Renaissance" style, see Teignmouth, but there was a nice example at Cwmbran, and a smaller version at Caerau.

 

At one point Heljan did a kit of Teignmouth - dont know if its still available. 

[Lawyerpaul]

Kemble is still in existence - a GWR (1882) stonebuilt junction station building with an interesting covered awning to the branch platform. There are some pictures on www.urban75.org/railway/kemble-railway-station-gwr.html

Lawyerpaul

[Joseph_Pestell]

Following that  idea ( out of curiosity ) just how few GWR  built stone stations were there? I can think of only St Ives in Cornwall off the top of my head!

 

Fair point. Most would have been built before the GW took ownership.

 

I think Plymouth Millbay was built by the GW.

 

(Edit: Yes, just checked. Rebuilt in 1903. Going OT, I had better not reproduce here but if you look up pictures of Millbay on Google there is a wonderful piece of pointwork shown which seems to be a combination of double slip and tandem three-way, one for Brian Harrap).

 

(Edit: Weston-super-Mare is stone and GW built).

Edited August 15, 2017 by Joseph_Pestell

[Jeff Smith]

If the Ratio 504 is too big how about the Wills Craftsman kit CK17 - a bit more work required but can be customized.  It claims to be GW based.  I built the goods shed many years ago, you have to cut out the wall shapes from Wills sheets - quite satisfying!

 

Here's my sleepy GWR terminus with the Ratio 504 and just visible the corner of the Wills Craftsman goods shed - the crane comes with the kit.

 

Edited August 15, 2017 by Jeff Smith