I am trying to find a decently large station that would pass for Edwardian or Victorian for this passenger terminus to go here.
This is the closest I've located. Any better suggestions or how to Angliphy this Faller German version? Or anything else out there???
I love that Faller German style building. If I had it I would not alter it at all. I love to see thigs on U.K. layouts that are different; not normally seen. That building fits the requirements. A statement to the town being modelled. Have other imposing town buildings around it; banks, solicitors' offices, main post office. Buildings that would be around in the 1850s/1860s. Dare to be different to other modellers.
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Thank you, Ian. A most interesting photo, and not one I would have expected. The style is much plainer than I would have guessed.
As to the Walther's structure, I've never come across it, and it is closest to what I had in mind. If there were some way to modify the chimneys to the classic British chimney pots, then it would be on the mark. I will have to reconsider, as that would be much more what I had envisioned. A Union Jack or two would probably pass quite easily for a British terminus, at least in my imagination.
One of the aspects of Brittania is that, to some degree, the venerable architecture is still in daily use. Much more so in '67, when I last lived here as a child. Among others, American Author Bill Bryson decries the destruction of British countryside and old architecture in favor of shopping malls and modernistic buildings...and roads. The English have a growing automobile dependency, as suffered in the United States. (The more roads are built, the more cars arrive to occupy them). I want to touch on Britain's relationship with her epic past. I even have modeled the Uffington Horse, Roman mosaics, and Stonehenge.
I live in one of the oldest (not the oldest, that is Saint Augustine, Florida) communities in the USA, where the Spanish established a mission in the name of the king and country in 1680 (recent history by British standards- Shakespeare had already come and gone by then). Tragically, the city fathers bulldozed as much of the early town as quickly as possible, and some things built in the late 1960s took the word "ugly" to new heights.