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 new Holyport will combine the existing loop and fiddle yard with the recycled factory board (see above and right).
Above the now demolish original station