jwealleans Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Guisborough. Eminently modellable (in 24') and some interesting and highly unusual working practices. Mix of private sidings and big railway, last of the BTPs, two Sentinel Railcars different to all the others, what's not to like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Keighley. Even if I can only vote for the KWVR platforms. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) Kyle of Lochalsh; it’s in a spectacular location and the name has a wild, romantic quality to it. Edited July 15, 2020 by Western Aviator Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted July 15, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 15, 2020 Duvet wrestling day today. I followed the advice given a fortnight ago by that jolly nice chap Bigwordsmith, and..... "you're too smart for me guv", it said, and submitted meekly. Thanks Peter. Mid morning photo again features Tracery, one of my favourite A3s, as well as being one of the best. She deserves the Tim treatment, and will get it, eventually. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 1 hour ago, great northern said: Well, you do like your small seaside termini. More votes on this than anything else so far, I think, 27 of them. They were spread over 17 locations, so no big winner this time. Whitby 4 Swanage 3 were the top two. Now I have to try and remember where we have got to. Ah yes, we started in London, then went to large City termini outisde the capital, after which we headed for the seaside, large and small. I think we have concluded the holiday scene now, so let's look at the smaller termini, but leave the rural branch line terminus to have a category of its own. Right, town termini today, to include coastal ones that were not really holiday destinations. But no "classic" BLTs. North Woolwich. In town, and nobody went there on holiday. Not on the GWR so won’t upset those of a sensitive nature. Three curved platforms taking four coaches, ideal as a basis fo a model, carriage sidings one side, goods yard the other, N7’s , and in later years L1’s , standard class 4 tank(s) , and even standard class 4 2-6-0. J15’s on the freights. In the days before the world went mad and “rationalised “ it , it absolutely oozed industrial atmosphere. A national tragedy when they closed it in favour of the soul-less DLR. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2020 Inverness for me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2020 Kyle of Lochalsh, brilliant location with sea and mountains and a glorious journey to arrive there, what more could you want? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2020 Reading South / Southern for me, steam on the Guildford / Tonbridge line and classic electrics on the ex LSWR services from Waterloo - a great place. Unfortunately BR shut it in 1965 and diverted the services into Reading General. All trace is now gone. The other contender would have been Aberystwyth for me - which had two gauges! Regards Chris H 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) Enfield Town, Chingford, or Hertford East, are all contenders as they are small stations with regular EMU services. Which one? All three. Edited July 15, 2020 by Clive Mortimore 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 1 hour ago, St Enodoc said: Inverness for me. But Inverness is now officially a city. Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hawkins Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Kyle Of Lochalsh, lovely terminus, on a stunning railway. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Small terminus? I would plump for Kyle. Many a time I have been sitting in the car waiting for the ferry when the train had just come in (I used to live on Skye). On a summer's evening you would see all the tourists (sometimes known as bongleys) gather around the edge of the jetty looking at the sea, then starting to feel the midges - wonderful free entertainment! Also a lovely view across to Kykleakin and just to the left of it, the Loch of the Beastie. There is an amusing story about a road in kyleakin being resurfaced because of a spelling mistake! Another is of the Skye ferry being hijacked to Australia. Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2020 11 minutes ago, FarrMan said: But Inverness is now officially a city. Lloyd Ah, so it is! Not when I last when there though. If it is disqualified, I'll whizz to the other end of the country and go for Weymouth. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Ah, so it is! Not when I last when there though. If it is disqualified, I'll whizz to the other end of the country and go for Weymouth. But isn't Weymouth a seaside place? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: But isn't Weymouth a seaside place? I'm voting for it in the context of it being a port, according to the rule: "...town termini today, to include coastal ones that were not really holiday destinations". Edited July 15, 2020 by St Enodoc 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2020 I've lost track of the poll lately but a lot of people seem to be voting for Kyle of Lochalsh. If I haven't missed the boat....... Kyle of Lochalsh for me please. Memories of a brilliant Scottish holiday and the very nice young lady hostess in the converted DMU observation car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2020 I’ll go for the old Fort William station. Right on the Loch side and what traction - everything from K2s and V4s through to Class 37s rock my boat. Not so keen on the sprinters though! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Although i have mentioned this in a previous poll Portsmouth harbour station 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CHAZ D Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Metropolitan H said: Reading South / Southern for me, steam on the Guildford / Tonbridge line and classic electrics on the ex LSWR services from Waterloo - a great place. Unfortunately BR shut it in 1965 and diverted the services into Reading General. All trace is now gone. The other contender would have been Aberystwyth for me - which had two gauges! Regards Chris H I am building a model of Readng South with lots of compromises but essentialy the same with no goods yard yet! The track layout is essentialy correct. Edited July 15, 2020 by CHAZ D 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Another vote for the old Fort William station Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 3 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: But isn't Weymouth a seaside place? Was the last time I drove through it ............... which was about an hour ago! Martyn 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37Oban Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Kyle of Lochalsh. Many happy memories of weekend train trips there. Roja Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 I think Southend Victoria fits into this category, not so much a holiday resort as a place for day trippers and commuters. However, my vote is for North Woolwich. Martyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted July 15, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 15, 2020 Another grey day, and another where little was achieved, not that that matters. Double chimney A3s tonight. As one heads South.. Another comes North, 60054 with the 5.35 Newcastle. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woollydog Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Small town terminus? Enfield Town as it was in steam days ... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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