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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???

Perhaps this

https://www.superquick.co.uk/railway-station-terminus

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.
Just my two penceworth

Glencairn

I somewhat agree with you but it is $260.

Thank you for your thoughts, gentlemen. I found one under $150, but then I found this:



$85

I much like the idea of urbanizing it a bit. Great idea!!

https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/old-photog ... 458203996/ is an old photo of Inverness railway station which is the closest to Loch Ness and Nessie

It's been 'modernised' since the photo.

Signage can help - there are many stations in the UK that are of some age, but have modern(??) signs. How about a Walthers kit?
https://www.walthers.com/milwaukee-ever ... 3-x-55-8cm

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.

Hi Chops
The Walthers Milwaukee Everett Street Station kit looks very similar to St.Pancras in London.

bulleidboy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:45 pm Hi Chops
The Walthers Milwaukee Everett Street Station kit looks very similar to St.Pancras in London.

I new I'd seen it somewhere in the UK, before.