tonyE1951

Hello I'm new to this site and unsure of what protcols are in place so please excuse me if I'm a little out of order. After many years I now find I have time to return to railway modelling - thanks to public sector cuts. She Who Must Be Obeyed bought me a Hornby OO set last Christmas so I decided to construct a layout. In a blinding flash of inspiration I decided to model what what would have been my local (5 minutes walk up the road) station - nobody would have modelled Fordingbridge, or so I thought! I'm not a purist (I model what I like the look of) and I don't want to copy the fantastic models pictured in this thread (because I don't have that level of skill). I've done some research (before I stumbled on this site) and amoungst other things I have obtained a copy of Southern Stations Vol 1 and an A4 copy of the track plan from those nice people at the National Railway Museum. The checky request is can anyone give me some pointers about the actual dimensions of the main station building and platform lengths please? I've tried using the plan in the book (scale is 1":160') and the track plan from the NRM (scale 1":40' - not sure if the scale along he edge is imperial or metric) but I keep comming out with different figures. Many of the pictures I've found online are a little grainy so counting brick courses has proved a tad difficult. Once I've got these answers I should be able to work everything else out. Space will be limited at least initially to 6' 6" by 2' 6" (i.e. the old living room door) so I don't think I'll have room to model much more than the actual station itself and the cattle pen/dock. I'm also assuming I'll have to scratch build everything - even the attractive lamp posts which appear to be in many locations but ignored by model manufacturers. Would be very gratful for any pointers. TonyE1951