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Episode 6 - Monclarence Takes Refined Shape.


scottystitch

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My little station has a name. I think I have settled on Monclarence.  My SO had a cat, a blue British Shorthair whom she wished to call Clarence, after the angel in "it's a Wonderful Life", her favourite movie.  The name Clarence was vetoed by her then husband as not being a name for a cat, and so he became Bubba, which to be fair my SO also chose and liked.  Since his passing a couple of years ago, I have always wanted to honour the fiesty-yet-affectionate little fellow somehow, without being tacky or twee.  And so he has a sleepy branchline Terminus named after him.  I felt "Clarence" was a) less than subtle and b) a little "American", striking images of a midwest gold mining settlement, with its associated lawlesness... and so with the idea that the area is elevated (from sea level) I have settled on Monclarence, a local corruption of Mount Clarence.

 

I wanted to supply Monclarence Station with some additional traffic and a further reason for Monclarence village's existence, beside agriculture, and so off scene there is now a small quarry which produces crushed stone for railway ballasting purposes.   

 

Empties will arrive at the station platform where the locomotive will run 'round and take them to be loaded at the quarry.  The process is mirrored for loaded departures.

 

The station building for Monclarence will be a copy of that at St Cyrus on the real-life Inverbervie Branch.  The goods shed and signal box will resemble thosee from the same line.

 

 

Passenger trains for the Monclarence branch will be selected from:

 

A 3-carriage Maunsell set BSK - CK - BSK with a Type 2

 

A 3-carriage Bulleid setBSK - CK - BSK with a Type 2

 

3-car 101 DMU

 

3-car 108 DMU

 

2-car+2-car 101 DMU

 

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Edited by scottystitch

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