Built By: Dan
Description: This non-standard module is extended at the front to accommodate the outer loop line. It is designed to connect to its partner station throat module. I have rebranded the station as “Monkton Hill Broadway” on the station name boards and platform signs: Monkton Hill is a road near Chippenham station, and the “station over the tracks” is a bit like Ealing Broadway station in London, UK.
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The module was still a work in progress when it first appeared at the Swindon Railway Festival in September 2024. The rail sides are painted to reduce the over-scale appearance of Unitrack. The Kato station platforms feature LED lighting, which helps to see the trains lurking under the platform canopies. |
I have continued detailing the station platforms module, with car parking either side of the line. The steel palisade fence is a laser cut card kit from Scale Model Scenery; it was a fiddly job making six feet of scale fencing, but it looks great and has survived two exhibitions so far.
Using a terminus station in our T-TRAK layout gives a definite “turn” for visitors driving our trains using smartphone throttles at public shows. We can also keep our spare trains in the platforms to add to the scene in quiet periods.
I have added a second station platforms module so the station can take 9-car and 10-car class 800 trains. I was going to build retaining walls as the scenery either side, but experience at Swindon ModRail 2026 showed we need space to be able to get to the trains easily, so it’s “back to the drawing board” to think of something else.
Swindon ModRail 2026 photos courtesy of C. Baker