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THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY 18.83 LAYOUT CHALLENGE |
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THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY 18.83 LAYOUT CHALLENGE |
MILTON by Clive Impey
Milton is a station on one of the rambling Great
Eastern
Railway branchlines that once crossed East Anglia. The time is the mid
1950s and
most of the locomotives are still of GER parentage as is the coaching
stock.
The importance of this station is the exchange of freight with the
light railway
to the local cement works. Inward traffic is mainly coal with some
gypsum,
outwards the cement is bagged or in bulk. The light railway is worked
by a
collection of industrial locomotives from various manufacturers.
The station is signalled to allow two freights or a freight and a
passenger to
pass but with only one platform, passing of two passenger trains is not
permitted. Of course all passenger trains are correctly signalled
through the
station but as with some other rural stations where officialdom rarely
ventured
the staff tend not to bother with signals when shunting freight trains.
Scaleforum 2005 Photos, Scalefour SW 2006 Photos,
