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My interest in the CLC in the 1930s. I'm hoping to build a 'homage' to Chester Northgate


postman23

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I live in WARRINGTON close to the Cheshire Lines Railway central station and I'm a Great Central Railway and LNER fan.

 

I'm hoping to build a homage to Chester Northgate station. Unfortunately it won't fit in my railway room but after a lot of thought I decided that the track plan for Buxton Midland would fit.

 

I'm currently building locos and rolling stock that's suitable.

 

Currently I'm working on a D&S 15 ton break van kit. I went to the NRM and found the drawings. So it's been super detailed. Additions over the kit include lamp irons on the sides of the body and a hand rail on the roof and on the roof access steps end.

 

I'll try to post pictures once I've worked out how to minaturise them sufficiently to load.

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Have you seen gizmo's thread? He has not managed to fit Northgate into a very large railway room - and he's working in 4mm.

 

But I think you could base a model more closely on Northgate so long as you add a fictitious road overbridge by way of scenic break. It should not take up any more space than Buxton.

 

Hadfield is an interesting and compact GC terminus.

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Thanks Joseph.

 

Hadfield... wasn't it a through station in 1935 or am I thinking of another Hadfield?

 

Norman Saunders of just tracks has helped with the track plan. It just fits into the space I have. The junction has been left off scene. The northgate trainshed has been grafted on instead of Buxton station.

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