Bachmann hand over cheque for £5,600.00 to Great Central Railway

[Andy Y]

Great Central Buildings “chequed” over.

 

From left to right Dave Allen, Station Master, Rothley, Kate Tilley, Marketing Manager Great Central Railway and David Haarhaus, European Sales & Marketing Manager, Bachmann Europe Plc.

 

Bachmann Europe Plc has today handed over a cheque for £5,600 to the Great Central Railway as a thank you for allowing the company to produce models of it’s distinctive Rothley station.

 

For the building of the Great Central Railway’s London Extension, which opened in 1899, all stations were built using island platforms. These were accessed from a road bridge (by stairs from either an under or over bridge) and all stations on the extension were built to this design. South of Calvert in Buckinghamshire, the railway joined with the Metropolitan Railway and later the Great Western Railway for the remainder of the journey into the new London terminus at Marylebone.

 

David Haarhaus, European Sales and Marketing Manager said “the distinctive Great Central buildings have proved popular and we have recently announced them in N scale. We have built good relationships with heritage railways and locomotive owners in recent years and handing over this cheque today allows a successful company like Bachmann to plough something back into the heritage railway community. The buildings have been superbly restored by the railway and need to be kept in excellent condition for us all to enjoy. An added benefit is that after visiting the station you can recreate it in miniature. We are also working with other heritage lines on building ranges including the Bluebell Railway, Severn Valley Railway and Shillingstone Station which is being restored by the North Dorset Railway Trust”.

 

The handover of the cheque coincides with the launch of the N scale versions of Rothley station which can be ordered from the shop on Loughborough station.

[PaulRhB]

Congrats to Bachmann on a superb job and gesture

[cary hill]

Deserving of a fat lip mode on:

 

 

It's not absolutely true that all GC London Extension stations were built in the island format as Carrington and Arkwright Street couldn't be built in that format.

 

Deserving of a fat lip mode off:

 

Nevertheless a superb result for one of the preserved lines local to me

[37114]

Good on Bachmann! I am sure a certain cotswolds line will be happy to have models of their station/engine shed etc as they need the cash to rejoin 2 parts into 1.

[Ceptic]

Bachmann = User Friendly

 

Well played. :Big B.

[Guest Max Stafford]

There's a nice signalman's cottage at Whitrope, guys! ;-)

 

Dave.

[Butler Henderson]

Rushcliffe Halt also was not an island platform, and Nottingham Victoria was not principally accessed via a road bridge (there was a secondary access from the Parliament Street bridge)

[Xerces Fobe2]

Nice to see Bachmann working with the Great Central everyone wins

 

XF

[cary hill]

Rushcliffe Halt also was not an island platform, and Nottingham Victoria was not principally accessed via a road bridge (there was a secondary access from the Parliament Street bridge)

 

Rushcliffe Halt was not opened until 1911 so wasn't part of the original build.

[Ohmisterporter]

A generous gesture on the part of Bachmann, no doubt very welcome at the GCR as well.