A Question of a Booking Hall

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Chops
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A Question of a Booking Hall

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I have this Dapol Booking Hall, I really like these simple, and older kits. Trouble is I don't need a second booking hall.
Any ideas how to modify it into another sort of urban, or village, structure? How would one bend it to make it look like something
other than a...booking hall? I haven't been to fair Britain in four decades, so am at a bit of a loss what to do with it.
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Re: A Question of a Booking Hall

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There are rather too many windows to make this a straightforward 'cut and shut' job. The extreme left hand end (two windows and a door with window over it) is clearly a toilet, and the extreme right hand end (Door with window over and two windows) is clearly meant to be a waiting room. The bit in between is the ticket hall. How these could be used in another building would stretch the imagination a bit.

By drastically cutting the sides to remove the ticket hall part, and shortening the roof you would get a building containing a second toilet (ladies only, the original being for gents), and a porters room, Maybe using some of the left over brickwork to close up one or more windows?

The actual kit on its own makes up onto a fairly meagre station. Most stations would have separate lavatory facilities for men and women, some might even have a general waiting room and a separate Ladies only waiting room alongside the Ladies lavatories. There would usually be a staff room for porters etc. and a secure ticket office which had a small ticket window opening on to the ticket hall. Bigger stations might have a separate Parcels Office where parcels were dealt with and kept secure. All these could be extra parts of the station building. By combining two of these booking hall kits and a bit of creative carvery a larger station would be possible.
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Re: A Question of a Booking Hall

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Very useful information, thank you. I will dwell on it abit and see if the Muse strikes.
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