Holyport

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Below is an article about how I intend to model Holyport
 

The new Holyport will follow on from Tal-y-Bont. The original Holyport incorporated the lessons learned from Victoria Road. Operation was completely automatic so no bored operators and while its web page implies a goods service in practise only a passenger service ever ran. A background story was developed "The Bray branch runs for four and a half miles from the Great Western Railway's Windsor line via Eton, Wick, and Dorney to Holyport. The station is set in the relatively industrialised east of the village." Despite being a good looking and running layout I wasn't completely happy with the Holyport - it looks too much like late 1980's diesels on a 1930's Great Western Railway Branch Line! Don't be fooled by the name as its Thames side I'd assumed the name implied a quay by a church actually it's a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon name for the village - Muddy Market.

The original layout got the chop because the; public seems uninterested in automatic layouts, the new car couldn't cope with eight foot boards, and sawing the layout in half meant cutting through points.

The new Holyport will combine the existing loop and fiddle yard with the recycled factory board (see above and right).

The history will be changed to "The Bray branch runs four and a half miles from the Great Western Railway's Windsor line via Eton, Wick, and Dorney to Holyport. The Passenger service was withdrawn in 1971 but the line remained open for goods trains serving the industrial estate and factory in the relatively industrialised east of the village. In 1988 a passenger service was reintroduced between Slough and Holyport operated by a class 162 bubble car and with a new basic station of platform and waiting hut been provided." The new Holyport will have a much more active goods service with wagon load freight to the factory and industrial estate.

 
Above the now demolish original station