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http://www.brickbuil...n-instructions/ My original plan for Kotanga station was to build something fairly modest, but as time has gone on I've decided to develop the township beyond the baseboard I'm working on at present and build most of it on the adjoining baseboard. This means that I would now have room to have a goods yard as well as the loco shed and it's adjoining turntable, - AND also a proper railway station of an appropriately dignified appearance. I'd seen the Queen's Bridge station on the brickbuilderspro website a while ago and fell in love with its Victorian era appearance almost straight away. I kept telling myself that it was far too posh for Kotanga, but on the other hand some fairly significant industries operated out of Kotanga in the past with the sawmill, the coathanger factory and the post hole mine being the main ones. And of course there was the Summer tourist trade and gold mining as well. Soooooo I've come to the conclusion that a posh station was built at Kotanga afterall by the very well heeled county council of the time and later on when the NZ Government Railways took over the district's railway lines, all except for the Kotanga Tramway (because it was such a scruffy little concern back then), the glorious Victorian style station building continued in use and remains today as a completely unique relic of the Kotanga County's colourful past. While I like shunting a goods yard and doing all the 'on shed' locomotive movements before a loco begins its working day, I also like to run passenger trains. And with running passenger trains you have to have a decent looking station for them to stop at; - especially if they happen to be posh looking trains and possibly even express trains. So there you are that's how I decided that Kotanga will be getting such a nice station building even though it shouldn't really. Out of interest has anyone built this particular station before? It's supposed to fit on three 32x32 baseplates which happens to be as big as I could go with on the intended site anyway.
