So one of the nice things about building buckden is the relatively simple track plan of the station. This allows prototypical workings and track layout inexpensively and easily. One of the main reasons I chose to start back in the hobby with something fairly simple is that I wanted to be able to finish something to a degree of accuracy that I could be pleased with.
There is a nice 1927 map in "Branch Lines around Huntingdon" by Vic Mitchell et al. which shows the short goods loop, long sidin
As I mentioned in my previous post, nothing of the station at Buckden now remains in place, however some of the station complex does, in fact remain intact. The small signal box originally from Buckden stood at the site long after trains stopped running, and can be seen on the site in photos here:
http://www.signalbox.org/gallery/lm/buckden.php
and
http://www.eastanglianrailwayarchive.co.uk/Railways/Abandoned-Lines-and-Stations/19396851_7VzqsZ/1573576237_mZjbZqr#!i=1573576237&k=m
Buckden station was a small station on the Kettering & Huntingdon branch line, originally built by the Midland Railway in 1866 (as Brampton) it transferred to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway upon grouping, and survived until 1959. It was a small station, with a single line serving the handsome station building, small Midland style signal box, weighing machine, cattle dock and between the goods loop and single long curving siding stood an odd shaped goods shed with a small platform o
