Many years ago, Jack Ray and his team built a large O-gauge garden railway called Crewchester. Perhaps you remember it. One of the terminus stations was called City Road; a splendid name and a splendid site for a terminus in London, filling the gap between King's Cross and Broad Street.

Being interested in London Midland and Eastern Region stock, I thought a terminus a little nearer the centre of the city might make a possible basis for a model; somewhere just to the north of Clerkenwell Road. Clerkenwell is a good Dickension name, with maybe Sherlock Holmes making a guest appearance out of the mist too.

A number of useful tools are available nowadays on the internet, which make viewing an area much easier. There's Google Street View, which enables very clear images of what an area looks like from road level. Geograph, which aims to have images from every OS grid square in the country (http://www.geograph.org.uk), is also extremely helpful in getting the feel of a locality.

So my fictitious terminus is north of the Clerkenwell Road, somewhere near it's junction with Farringdon Road. I see it as something of an overflow forSt Pancras and King's Cross, with Peaks and Deltics rubbing shoulders with each other.

Attached are some pictures of the locality which hopefully give an idea of the area.

Peter