Wickersley is a small terminus station located at the end of a fictional South Yorkshire branch line within British Railways' Eastern Region. It was my second attempt at building a layout but my first layout for which I had a definite plan, adapting one from Cyril Freezer's '60 Layouts for Small Spaces' book. My aims were to produce a layout representing a fictional line within the South Yorkshire area and that used Peco Code 100 Setrack components to produce a decent layout for home and possible exhibition use.
The layout of Wickersley was originally going to be named Treffield Junction and then later Rilfield - both fictional places. However it was whilst plotting the fictional route on Google Earth that I came across the villages of Wickersley, Dinnington and Wagthorpe that lay on a path from Retford to Mexborough - none of which had ever been served by a railway. Now instead of just being an entirely fictional layout that was 'somewhere in South Yorkshire' the layout gained a bit more authenticity of having a locality that actually existed. Plus Wickersley sounds so much better than Rilfield!
1 comment:
Wickersley didnt have a train station.
still looked good at the sheffield show.
All the best
Rob
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