steveNCB7754

Hi Paul,

Looking good.  Which means it can't be too long before a brand new RTR Deans Goods is announced!  Not that I need one now, as you know ;-)

Seriously though, will you be retaining the moulded-on handrails/knobs, or replacing them?

Steve N

Hi Focalplane,

Good choice! This location was to have been my first foray into railway modelling many years ago.  I was born in Shipston (1957) but we had to move 'down South' in 1966, so left our house in Station Road (right opposite the old gasworks) for (mostly) sunny Dorset.
 

Jump forward to 1980 and I began, what turned out to be, a long period of research into the line which evolved into a desire to model it.  To cut a long story short, it was almost 20 years later before I had all the buildings scratch-built and then found that the only space I had available for the layout was too small (I'd allowed for some longitudinal compression, but wanted to include the Gasworks and it was too tight laterally for my liking).
 

The other issue (a 'fatal flaw'), was that I had spent so long doing the research (and my railway interests had evolved as well), that I guess I also just lost interest in actually bothering to model it at all.  So I now have a set of buildings for Shipston that I haven