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Spon End Station (GWR) (#3)

Ken A.

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Okay, so this is the third entry in two days and will probably be the last for some time. The main reason that I am making it is to run my plan for a very small station past a critical audience.

 

The idea is to produce a very small layout that will serve to ease me back into British outline and practice after a gap of 35 years working on American HO followed by O and On30. American O is a great scale and is 1/4 inch to the foot and is very easy to work in. Now I've got to start visualizing a foot as 4mm, this is a real cultural gear change.

 

Please take a look at the plan below and remember that it is four feet by one foot. It is designed as a through station/halt, complete with a goods yard, that can be operated as a stand-alone terminus until it is finally incorporated into the greater scheme of things.

 

Okay, so am I on the right track? Will it work? Please let me know your views, together with suggested additions. Does it need signaling? Would the GWR have built a ground frame, or small signal box to control the yard, or would the points be left to the shunters to operate?

 

I need to draw on other people's knowledge here which is clearly greater than mine.

 

All the best,
Ken

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MikeOxon

I'll leave it to the experts to advise on prototypical features but will observe that putting in some curvature makes for a more attractive model scene.

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The short section crammed in between two road bridges is very Black Country-ish but can you give it any other distinctive features? A canal for instance - with the railway bridges abutting older canal bridges? Rather than a passenger station, how about a private siding serving some typical industry? Or is that too much like an American switching layout?

 

Isn't Spon End in Coventry?

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Compound2632, on 01 Nov 2016 - 17:13, said:

The short section crammed in between two road bridges is very Black Country-ish but can you give it any other distinctive features? A canal for instance - with the railway bridges abutting older canal bridges? Rather than a passenger station, how about a private siding serving some typical industry? Or is that too much like an American switching layout?

 

Isn't Spon End in Coventry?

Thanks for your suggestions, you've given me a lot to think about...

 

1)   I did  a few sketches of a stand alone goods yard but wanted to begin with something along the lines of a mini "Bumble Hole Line" (Netherton to Old Hill) but I do like the idea of the private siding...  I'll add that to the list.

 

2)    Canals will have to come in at a later stage.  As you pointed out canals were still very important at this time and I couldn't build something in the Dudley area without canals.  Actually I hadn't even thought about them until I read your post - Canals have just gone onto the list, possibly with a mini version of the Withymoor Basin yard.

 

3)   Finally Spon End.  I was aware of a Spon Lane which is where I got the "Spon" bit from but if there is a Spon End in Coventry then clearly I need a new name so I am open to suggestions.

 

Once again, thanks for your input

Ken.

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Ken A.

Rather than a passenger station, how about a private siding serving some typical industry? Or is that too much like an American switching layout?

Well, after dismissing your idea out of hand, it sort of niggled away in the back of what passes for my mind until itmanifested its self as the offering shown in Blog post (#4).  You were right all along!

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