John TAYLOR
Western Thunderer
It seems from several sources that originally there was just a private siding and stopping place in 1897 and in 1906 the GWR took over and built a signal box and a standard height wooden platform with a corrugated waiting room.
Nearby was Churchill Mill and a private school which eventually purchased the Mill to improve access via the level crossing which up to that time was on Mill land.
The siding (Sarsden) as it was known then, was built as a loop and access was from a key on the train staff.
Goods traffic was agricultural, coal, milk and provisions for the school, and increased goods to and from the Mill.
A cart weighbridge and hut was built in 1913 and a crossing keepers cottage in 1930. A Port to Port express would also stop at the Halt if 24 hour notice was given.
Churchill Halt Sidings were extended during WW1 and a cattle dock was provided to give this project more operating potential..............
......... track is now down and the original catch point changed to a single slip. The cattle dock will be positioned at the front to help break up the rather mundane track plan.
Track is all C&L products and is laid to 32mm FS throughout. Locomotive operation will be DCC sound but everything else will be traditional wiring and switches.
wiring is now under way and hopefully completed by this weekend........
My intention is to model some of the more obvious point rodding and facing point locks and have chosen to use lost wax components from C&L.
In the meantime I have fabricated my favoured type of point operating system.......
I have used both types of tiebars provided in the C&L point kits.......
Once this is all complete all the action will be under the baseboard units ..............
Nearby was Churchill Mill and a private school which eventually purchased the Mill to improve access via the level crossing which up to that time was on Mill land.
The siding (Sarsden) as it was known then, was built as a loop and access was from a key on the train staff.
Goods traffic was agricultural, coal, milk and provisions for the school, and increased goods to and from the Mill.
A cart weighbridge and hut was built in 1913 and a crossing keepers cottage in 1930. A Port to Port express would also stop at the Halt if 24 hour notice was given.
Churchill Halt Sidings were extended during WW1 and a cattle dock was provided to give this project more operating potential..............
......... track is now down and the original catch point changed to a single slip. The cattle dock will be positioned at the front to help break up the rather mundane track plan.
Track is all C&L products and is laid to 32mm FS throughout. Locomotive operation will be DCC sound but everything else will be traditional wiring and switches.
wiring is now under way and hopefully completed by this weekend........
My intention is to model some of the more obvious point rodding and facing point locks and have chosen to use lost wax components from C&L.
In the meantime I have fabricated my favoured type of point operating system.......
I have used both types of tiebars provided in the C&L point kits.......
Once this is all complete all the action will be under the baseboard units ..............
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