The original platform was made from LCUT Creative sections. Templates cut from spare make sure everything meets Guild standards.
The main part of it done - the only dead straight track on the layout.
Duncan models loading gauge, a nice little kit.
I'm including the goods siding in the station. The wider bit of platform at the top is supposed to be a mail platform, but I got the width wrong....
Making sure the platform surface sticks.
After some issues, platform 2.0 had to be constructed.
The station buildings fabricated from Plastikard.
Peco phone box, with full interior and working light (not wired up yet).
The nice Bedford coal wagon from eBay, and my Land Rover - 200Tdi in the right white livery. I got it from Buxton S&T and it came with a log of every journey it had made. After being thrashed round the motorways and off-roaded mercilessly I sold it with 276,000 miles on the clock. A great motor.
While Soddingham does have a passenger service, we never see it because coaches are too long and won't go round corners without ridiculously long couplings. It seems the local train spotters always manage to miss them. The focus of the layout is to display built wagons, so I built a very minimal platform - the narrowest wide allowed in the Guild specifications. The back wall is two brick courses higher than the surface, on top of which GWR railings sit. I saw this set-up somewhere. The original LCUT platform was very nice, but over time the corners of the top started curling. most likely to changing weather up here in Loftshire. Fixes failed, so in the end I ripped it out a replaced it with Monk's Gate Models platform faces and edging kits - very smart, though one bit of edging is different to the rest. Not that that matters really, prototype platforms can have all sorts of weird bits. The original back wall has been reused so the railings are still present. The surface is ID Backscenes 'Tarmac' self adhesive paper, chosen as the best looking surface when I'd decided I didn't waned a paved surface this time.
Peco platform lights, made to work with warm white sub mm LEDs, are fitted and the station sign custom 3d printed - "We don't know if it will work that long..." It did. The station buildings I made from plastikard and are based on a station on a GWR heritage railway to get the general flavour of the architecture. The roofs sort of disappear - I'm not up to panting the full ones on the back scene. The buildings are illuminated and had interiors made out of pictures cut out of a magazine. The goods yard attached is somewhere I park bits and bobs I like, so is very much General Goods.
The phone box is Peco, and I actually googled to see what the interior should look like. There exists a phone box research group and I used info from their site to equip the interior with the aid of plastikard. The phone itself came form Modelu. I also installed a light in the roof, having suitably blocked light bleeds except form the 'Telephone' words, which light up.
The platform is littered with trollies and hand carts - I like them, so there we are and teh station still has an enthusiastis operation Porter.
The canopy was an LCUT kit, very nice too, but in the end I felt it was intrusive so it's gone. I'd added guttering, downpipes and strip lights too.
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