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Titheridge Junction – Bradford Model Railway Club
Background: After completing a new 14 road fiddle yard for an existing N layout “Dewsbury Midland” there was talk of using it for a new modern image club layout. Coincidentally well-known N gauge modern image modeller Pauline McKenna had recently joined the club, and this provided the motivation to make a start. To add some interest a flying junction with a simple siding was conceived. The name is in memory of Pauline’s late husband, DB Schenker driver Steve Titheridge. The era is BR Blue 1975 -1982, the final years of the Western’s, although we are very flexible as to what runs on our layouts.
St Marnock Engine Shed
Concept:
Although imaginary, St Marnock Engine Shed had good reason to exist. The Ayrshire town of Kilmarnock, in steam days, was an important junction on the ex G&SWR Anglo -Scottsh route from Glasgow to Carlisle.
It was served by Hurlford engine shed, but this was situated some miles to the South. With all the express passenger and freight traffic passing through Kilmarnock, it would have been of great benefit to have locomotive servicing facilities close to the station. St Marnock provides that.
Description:
The shed itself is a three road structure, featuring the cathedral style Galloway architecture, typical of the ex G&SWR sheds at Ayr, Hurlford and Dumfries, and, like those depots, it fuels its locomotives from a basic wooden coaling stage. Unusually for a small depot, it boasts a 70 foot turntable, capable of handling the largest express locomotives.