Line Side Buildings A variety of buildings specifically related to our railways. Stations, Engine Sheds and more. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:07:40 +0000 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:07:40 +0000 Platform1mrc.com http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?forums/line-side-buildings/ Another NSR signal box? Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:36:33 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/another-nsr-signal-box.3597/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/another-nsr-signal-box.3597/ invalid@example.com (Andy_Sollis) Andy_Sollis
Can you guess where it is yet?

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The lower locking room windows are only temproray as they are the wrong height. Also a side window to add
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Progress on the porch area.

I don’t want to count how many bricks I have had to copy and paste and there is still a chimney to do yet.]]> 27 Fuel depot building Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:16:13 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/fuel-depot-building.6791/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/fuel-depot-building.6791/ invalid@example.com (Andrew Laing) Andrew Laing View attachment 47040
Question - Are the couplings hanging on the wall painted orange to identify them as belonging to the fuel yard/depot?
That is my thought on them.
Any help appreciated.]]> 15 Australian Grain Silos Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:32:42 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/australian-grain-silos.3252/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/australian-grain-silos.3252/ invalid@example.com (gormo) gormo Found these silos at Toowoomba and thought they might come in handy for scratch builders.






Australian Grain Silos]]> 21 Windrush station Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:02:04 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/windrush-station.6691/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/windrush-station.6691/ invalid@example.com (Ron) Ron Good instructions and well fitting pieces made it a relaxing build!
Chimney pots will go on a lot later.
View attachment 45387]]> 1 Warren Yard - 16 - Wagon Repair Works - Supporting Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:37:41 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-16-wagon-repair-works-supporting.6654/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-16-wagon-repair-works-supporting.6654/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight Yard Office

Stands at the road entrance to the works, dealing with deliveries and despatching of goods by road, another Harburn Hobbies (HH) repaint.

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Joiners Shop

Cosily tucked in between the boiler house and the mess, they have the best of it despite the wooden hut nature of their shop, an HH repaint.

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Works Office and Mess

Boss, food and toilets are all here, difficult to avoid the guv even when taking a...

Warren Yard - 16 - Wagon Repair Works - Supporting]]> Warren Yard - 15 - Wagon Repair Works - Shop 3 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:16:15 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-15-wagon-repair-works-shop-3.6650/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-15-wagon-repair-works-shop-3.6650/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
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Construction

Built from left over walls from shops 1 & 2, with a scratch built asbestos roof as I did not have any roof parts left over....

Warren Yard - 15 - Wagon Repair Works - Shop 3]]> 8 Warren Yard - 14 - Wagon Repair Works - Shop 2 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 21:47:12 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-14-wagon-repair-works-shop-2.6642/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-14-wagon-repair-works-shop-2.6642/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
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Out the back is an ex-RAF 6 wheel mobile crane bought surplus for general lifting around the site.
To the front is the water tank still used to supply the works steam locos via the nearby water crane.

Inside is one bay...

Warren Yard - 14 - Wagon Repair Works - Shop 2]]> Warren Yard - 13 - Wagon Repair Works - Shop 1 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 07:12:26 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-13-wagon-repair-works-shop-1.6637/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-13-wagon-repair-works-shop-1.6637/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
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Attached to the east end is the boiler house providing heat for Shop 1, Shop 2, joiners and the mess. Coal storage in front.

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The roof sections are removable and the...

Warren Yard - 13 - Wagon Repair Works - Shop 1]]> 1 Warren Yard - 12 - Wagon Repair Works - Overview Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:35:36 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-12-wagon-repair-works-overview.6632/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-12-wagon-repair-works-overview.6632/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight History

The site was originally a small engine shed and servicing facility for the nearby junction station hence most of the buildings are ex-Victorian engine sheds along with some relics, e.g. the working heavy hoist and the obsolete external stationary steam boiler for powering Shop 2 machinery.

In the 1960's it was repurposed to support the the recently built mashalling yard, Warren Yard, for the repair and immediate maintenance of wagons passing through the yard.

Steam and...

Warren Yard - 12 - Wagon Repair Works - Overview]]> 5 Warren Yard - 11 - PW Yard Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:08:59 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-11-pw-yard.6626/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-11-pw-yard.6626/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight Warren Yard - 11 - PW Yard

Sharing the Warren Yard site is a small Permanent Way (PW) yard which contains sidings for the PW Dept, the S&T Dept and wagon storage.

Site Map

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Two sidings are allocated to seasonal and spare wagons, typical of a marshalling yard, spare wagons are available to move goods from wagons which need extensive repair so they goods are not unduely delayed.

Seasonal wagons are typically called upon where agricultural needs are...

Warren Yard - 11 - PW Yard]]> 3 Warren Yard - 10 - Loco Services - Supporting Buildings Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:22:31 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-10-loco-services-supporting-buildings.6618/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-10-loco-services-supporting-buildings.6618/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
  • Reporting Office
  • Mess

Reporting Office

Loco crews arriving or departing from the yard get their instructions and needs processed at this office next to the loco services headshunt.

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Mess

Probably seen as more important than the reporting office by staff and crews is the mess, where hot food, tea and toilets are available....

Warren Yard - 10 - Loco Services - Supporting Buildings]]> Warren Yard - 9 - Loco Services - Turntable Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:55:28 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-9-loco-services-turntable.6613/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-9-loco-services-turntable.6613/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
My specification for this turntable required that it would be powered unattended after pressing a button to start it and rotate the loco at a realistic speed of about 1 rpm for 180 degrees and stop.

Absolutely essential was that it should as near silent as possible, I hate the...

Warren Yard - 9 - Loco Services - Turntable]]> 5 Warren Yard - 8 - Loco Services - Diesel Oil Tue, 14 Nov 2023 20:40:44 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-8-loco-services-diesel-oil.6501/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-8-loco-services-diesel-oil.6501/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
Class 08 and further medium weight diesels such as the Class 14 are used on trip duties to and from neighbouring marshalling yards, as well as the Blue Circle Class 14 operating out of the cement works on the local industrial branch. These all qualify for top up refuelling here.

So a small refuelling tank was installed, not in a really suitable...

Warren Yard - 8 - Loco Services - Diesel Oil]]> Warren Yard - Index of Topics with Links Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:32:14 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-index-of-topics-with-links.6394/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-index-of-topics-with-links.6394/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
1 - Introduction
2 - Operation
3 - Signalling
4 -...

Warren Yard - Index of Topics with Links]]> Warren Yard - 7 - Loco Services - Sand and Lamp OIl Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:42:00 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-7-loco-services-sand-and-lamp-oil.6393/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-7-loco-services-sand-and-lamp-oil.6393/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
Sand Drying House

Dry sand is required for use in the sanding gear of locomotives to aid adhesion on slippery rails, and seeing as this is in the damp UK and the grades of my branches are steep the sand drying facility required is quite large considering the size of this service area.

I found that it was very difficult to obtain any images or information on sand drying facilities of 1960s British Railways, what little I did find was that it was an...

Warren Yard - 7 - Loco Services - Sand and Lamp OIl]]> Recreating Leek station signal box Wed, 10 May 2023 17:17:54 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/recreating-leek-station-signal-box.4838/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/recreating-leek-station-signal-box.4838/ invalid@example.com (Andy_Sollis) Andy_Sollis So here is a bit of the progression in just over a week..

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thanks to the NSRC who have given me a number of photos as reference, I could start counting bricks. The bonus from this is that it was half drawn with my Hassall Green model, and really only needed extending and modifying...
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Coal

The coaling stage is a manual arrangement typically for loading tank locos of the yard and branches and may if asked politely help an almost empty mainline loco passing through. Coal is delivered in 10 to 12 ton open wagons and shovelled with the aid of a bucket and crane between wagons and coal pile on the stage.

The coaling stage was bought very much as...

Warren Yard - 6 - Loco Services - Coal and Water]]> 1 Warren Yard - 5 - Loco Services - Maintenance Sun, 10 Apr 2022 17:04:16 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-5-loco-services-maintenance.5965/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-5-loco-services-maintenance.5965/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
The shed has two roads with pits with internal access to the workshop.

The shed is a Wills kit which I bought already assembled but damaged, it was partially dismantled including removal of windows where possible, structurally made sound, a workshop added to it and missing vents replaced.

The attached workshop is...

Warren Yard - 5 - Loco Services - Maintenance]]> 1 Warren Yard - 4 - Loco Services - Overview Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:57:22 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-4-loco-services-overview.5959/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-4-loco-services-overview.5959/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
The first image shows the rail connection to the Loco Services area at the south end of Warren Yard, access is via the yard headshunt and then a smaller headshunt to reverse back into the services area.

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Image 2 shows a close up of the services area itself from which the names of...

Warren Yard - 4 - Loco Services - Overview]]> 8 Warren Yard - 1 - Introduction Sun, 27 Feb 2022 09:30:10 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-1-introduction.5852/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/warren-yard-1-introduction.5852/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
This is often our biggest decision to make regardless of available budget, space or time and took me some time. In fact like many decisions that you feel should be easy but for some reason are not they are often solved by your sub-conscious throwing something at your conscious brain while it is in neutral whether asleep, on the loo, or quite out of the blue doing something completely different.

By 2011...

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