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angelah

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Does anybody have any shots of Evercreech Junction buildings. I have some but all they are doing is confusing me.
I think there are buildings (or were rather) on both sides of the tracks and I seem to have a jumble of both and a whopping great canopy that I am unable to see in any of the other pictures. I got half a dozen shots from the Internet and they do help with the texturing but the actual formations of buildings eludes me.
Any help would be appreciated and then I can get on making it/them - whatever.

Cheers for any help,

Angela
 
Hi steviez,
And cheers for those links. I have the shots in the fist two but the station plan may help a bit and the last link had a shot that was new to me so I can see what is going on there and in colour, always a bonus.
TBH there doesn't seem to be all that much in the way of pictures of this station around so I'll have to struggle a bit by the look of it.
My plan is to make a few local and mainly small UK station buildings to expand the exitsting few we have available. At present I am trying to get graphics together for Chertsey station alongside Evercreech.
I am open to suggestions on stations, mainly the smaller local ones, so we can have a better choice.

Angela
 
Hi Angelah

Not sure if this is of any help to you but oldmaps.co.uk are extremely useful for obtaining the track layouts of long-defunct stations, goods-yards, junctions &c. They also show where the original station buildings were in block-plan format. As I am something of a resurrectionist regarding railways, I use them all the time.

Regards

Alan
 
steviez:-
I have looked through those films and grabbed a few images, but so far have not looked at the images. They were helpful in that I now have a good idea which building went where and on which side of the tracks so I can piece together a little better the shots I have of building and which one they should be for. For instance canopies, there are a few so now I know which building each goes on.
Thanks for the links.

redmonkey :-
I am not making the route so I need ground level views of buildings, square on if possible but that is very unlikely. But thanks for the info, it may well come in handy one day.

Angela
 
Good morning steviez,
Now that is a really nice shot and one I missed when doing my searches. The build material is very well displayed and means I shall have to change the one I had chosen. They most likely used a local material for the construction. It has been altered a little but the main structure is still there.

Many thanks for continuing the search,

Angela
 
Not to take this thread off topic, but the old Somerset and Dorset was one of those lines that I ask why was it abandoned? Today this would still be an important rail link since it runs from Bath to the south shore at Bournemouth. I've followed the old ROW on Bing and Google Earth, and it makes me feel sad inside when I see this removed.

The ROW looks like it's in good shape, including some of the viaducts I could see. I know and see that the urban areas have swallowed up the line though which would make this part difficult to rebuild, but still if only someone was more far-sighted on this axe-clip. From what I've read and heard, it sounds like once the Great Western got a hold of the line, they used this as a way to steal the traffic off the old S&D and away from the Southern Region. This is like what happened with the Penn Central and how they ruined many great rail lines over here in the Northeast US.

Good luck on your building search. I saw some really old black and white videos of it on YouTube a about a year ago. If I can find them, I'll post the link.

John
 
Hi JCitron,
Thanks for looking. I saw a program recently that stated just about the same things you put forward, that the GWR basically killed it off. Sad really, there were some interesting locos from what I saw ending I think. with the Bullied Pacifics charging along at full bore, an inspiring sight indeed.
So many lines went in one way or another, mostly through the Beeching cuts, but not all should have been obliterated so hurridly, or is hat horribly...

Angela
 
Hi Angela,
There is a route on the DLS 'Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway' by tlblade, which includes
Evercreech Junction, but how accurate the station layout is portrayed I'm not sure, as he
has used buidlings from the DLS. One of the problems with this route is that it has been
laid in places like a roller-coaster, with unprototype gradients and bends. I did try to flatten
it out a bit, but I gave up in the end. This could be a good route if someone took the trouble
to lay it correctly.
Dick Turpin.
 
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