GrahamUK33

I have received ‘The story of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway’ by C.W.Judge. I have found this to be a good book with the track layout, signalling and a drawing of the station building as well as some photos mainly from the 1950s. Where I am at: To model from Bartholomew Bridge to Boundary Road Bridge will take up 6 meters plus the radius on each end to make a loop, total length about 7 meters. This will not fit in the loft area. I could model from Bartholomew Bridge to Winchcombe Road Bridge (A339) will take up 2.9 meters plus the radius on each end to make a loop, total length about 4 meters. This will fit in the loft but to be realistic I only have enough room for 3 meters, unless I keep splitting the layout up. I was looking at a 0.6 meter diorama and 0.4 meter for the out of sight fiddle yard that will allow for 10 lines. So a total of 1 meter wide. Would this be the reason that no one has done Newbury before due to the amount of space needed?

Thanks for all the replies guys, I have got a book on order and will wait and see how much info that has. I am sure I will need to purchase some more books. I am really surprised that I can’t find anyone who has modelled Newbury station before, it looks as if it used to be quite a busy station along with the goods yard to the East.

Many thanks, I have now placed an order on Amazon. Just had a look at the plans, there would certainly be of use. They seem a bit expensive, so I will wait for the book to arrive as they may be in there. If they are not in the book then I will have to buy the ones that I need.

I have been looking on the Google earth satellite image and also comparing that with some old maps on old-maps, but no idea how to lift the track layout from this unless it is all by eye. I have done some rough measurements and found that that complete layout would be about 6m long (2mm scale), the platform would be around 2m long. I can’t see how I would be able to shorten the layout as one half is the station activity and the other half would be the goods yard activity, plus all the through traffic as well. I can picture what I am after but the project seems very daunting at the moment. I can’t find any building plans for the station buildings, but not sure if these would have been in a past edition of the Railway Modeller. It seems as if I would need to go to Kew to the record archive to get all the information I need, does that sound right?

I am looking at creating Newbury Station in Berkshire during the 1920s and 1930s. I can’t find a track plan and also a plan of the station buildings, is anyone able to help with this? I need the track plan to workout how long I can make the layout. It should be an interesting layout with a mainline from London Paddington to Penzance. There were also two branch lines which are the Lambourn Valley branch line and the Didcot to Southampton line. I have found some old photos on the net which give a indication of what the area was like and what rolling stock was used. I haven’t found anyone who has modelled Newbury Station as of yet, anyone know if there is one around?