Dimensions of closed and demolished stations

[Thebaz]

I'm interested in modelling Broadstone station on the old S&DJR and I want to know how many carriages would fit into the platforms back in the day. In other words how long were the platforms? I've seen plenty of photographs and seen a couple of plans from Mitchell/Smith books (but unfortunately they're not to any obvious scale.

Any suggestions?

 

[DaleCooper]

is this any good?

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=50.7638&lon=-1.9961&layers=176&b=6

 

[John Webb]

Sorry - double post!

 

[John Webb]

I'm interested in modelling Broadstone station on the old S&DJR and I want to know how many carriages would fit into the platforms back in the day. In other words how long were the platforms? I've seen plenty of photographs and seen a couple of plans from Mitchell/Smith books (but unfortunately they're not to any obvious scale.

Any suggestions?

The maps in the Mitchell/Smith books are usually extracts from the 25":1 mile OS maps - if altered in scale from this they usually say so.

Sadly your station of interest is not yet covered by the http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/ website.

Have you seen this photo?:
Broadstone Station

© Copyright Ben Brooksbank and
licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
(Click on the picture to go to the larger original.)

 

[Thebaz]

The maps in the Mitchell/Smith books are usually extracts from the 25":1 mile OS maps - if altered in scale from this they usually say so.

Thanks, I didn't know that. So hopefully the ones in the book didn't suffer from any distortion at the printers. If they are reproduced faithfully I should have no trouble scaling an image in AutoCAD.

 

[30907]

There will have been a 1:480 scale plan of the station.

40 years ago they would have been held at DMO Wimbledon - someone here may know where those for closed stations have gone. NRM? Kew Archive?