Faversham Road.
An N Gauge layout by Martin Crocker

Faversham Road was a small area of a suburb of Bristol. It used to have a two track station until Mr Beeching came along and decided to close it. Work had started and then it was realised that there was a need for a small stabling point in this part of the city to take pressure of Bristol Bath Road. Faversham Road was selected as there was sufficient room around the old goods yard and the access road was still in place. As such one of the platforms was saved and a stone shelter built salvaged from the old station building. It became a single line branch run on one train in operation to save on the signalling. The second line was also saved and became a freight and service line for the stabling point.

All of the above of course is fictitious. Faversham Road came about because the N Gauge layout that I had started, Boxley Junction was deemed boring by my mum as it only went end to end.  As it happened this board became available which already had track down, so after making some small adjustments Faversham Road was born and the opportunity to build a ‘roundy roundy’  arrived. As with all my layouts there are some personal references, Faversham Road is actually in Liverpool and was where my mum lived. There is also a Goons reference on the low relief factory.

The build initially was slow as the previous owner had some odd ideas on ballasting (Run UHU along the track and throw on some ballast) and some additional points were required. The layout is wired for DCC and the point are analog controlled by switches)

 It is available for exhibition as it is quite small and therefore easily transported (4ft by 2.5 ft).