Birch Hill
Ted Schofield, 4mm scale OO gauge, British Railways - circa 1962.
A view of the station approach.
Firstly why Birch Hill? Solely because it's the name of the hospital where I was born near Rochdale in Lancashire.
Birch Hill started life as a purely British Railways Western Region layout based in the West Country as can be seen by the buildings, but more and more my boyhood days spent by the line side in the North West came to bear. Subsequently an influx of British Railways Midland Region engines started to appear on the layout, so I have had to move the location to the Bristol area where both regions mixed. Most of the buildings are scratch built apart from the goods provender store which is a Ratio kit, all the track is Peco Streamline, scenery and ballast by Woodland Scenics, with a bit of Heki static grass thrown in.
All photographs by Ted Schofield
Birch Hill started life as a purely British Railways Western Region layout based in the West Country as can be seen by the buildings, but more and more my boyhood days spent by the line side in the North West came to bear. Subsequently an influx of British Railways Midland Region engines started to appear on the layout, so I have had to move the location to the Bristol area where both regions mixed. Most of the buildings are scratch built apart from the goods provender store which is a Ratio kit, all the track is Peco Streamline, scenery and ballast by Woodland Scenics, with a bit of Heki static grass thrown in.
All photographs by Ted Schofield