I visited Littlemore recently to take some photographs of the site as it is today and better understand the topography. Here are just some of the pictures I took to help with the layout, along with some explanation to help make sense of them.

The site of the station itself is now occupied by a fabricators. Here is how the approach looks today from the road:

and the approach itself:

The station buildings are long gone. The road is carried on an overbridge, mostly built up over the line, hence the slope down behind the station buildings and into the narrow yard. The ground here is generally falling towards the south. There is a shallow cutting of about seven feet on the north side of the line.

A very poor vantage point, but the best I could get of the bridge without trespassing on the railway.

Looking east from the road overbridge the station platform was on the right with the buildings at the end of the platform about where the first brick building is in todays scene:

It is not clear from early photographs published whether the platform continued under the bridge or not. Plans suggest that it stopped short. The goods yard was beyond and eventually consisted a loop and an additional single siding, plus a loading dock. There were two cranes but never a goods shed despite it being one of the busiest stations on the line excepting Thame. The line in this direction passes through to Princes Risborough.

From the bridge looking west the line passes towards Kennington Jcn. and then on to Oxford.

There was a siding running alongside the branch on the right hand side for the length of the platform, under the bridge and on the right of this picture about 500 yards in the distance would have been the sand quarry. This siding seems to have often been used for stabling additional traffic that could not fit into the yard at the time according to photographs around 1920, the time period I eventually intend to represent. The line here seems to exist only to serve as far as Morris Cowley, whether it still serves the motor works there I do not know.

Viewing inside the curve, as I intend the layout to be exhibited, the backdrop is formed of the buildings of the asylum. These buildings have now been refurbished and added to, being turned into flats and other housing. The hospital having been re-established across the road in 1998.

This is one of the main buildings. Another building that will feature is the engineers buildings, which were built into the wall surrounding the asylum grounds

The wall bounds the railway on the south side and there are semi-detached houses on the north that the railway seems to have been fitted between. This makes it an excellent proposition for a model because the baseboards can be quite narrow and have a reasonable goods yard to operate. Unfortunately the wall is about as far back as I can depict in three dimensions and these buildings must necessarily be incorporated on the backscene.

Within the goods yard there was a turntable that allowed access through the walls for delivery of fuel into the asylum.

I found the now bricked opening just along a footpath that seems to be in the direction of the technology park. There are a good number of things I learned from the visit, not limited to the wall changing to brick at this point, which I would not have otherwise realised.