Guess the Place

[Stewie]

Jackie is right, the MGB is out of its time, being made from 1962. Even its predecessor the MGA didn’t begin production until 1955.

Before that you have the prewar style TD & TF.

I’ll just go and adjust my anorak….

It is a model JohnFilmer, its not as serious as if they had the wrong locomotive or livery for the period! 

[johnfilmer]

Jackie is right, the MGB is out of its time, being made from 1962. Even its predecessor the MGA didn’t begin production until 1955.

Before that you have the prewar style TD & TF.

I’ll just go and adjust my anorak….

[Stewie]

The owner said that one of the houses that formed part of the model near to the station remained in use today. It was just over a mile from the RH&DR station by foot I believe. Next time I am in the area I was going to take a quick look. 

[Beachbum]

Jackie Paper gets the credit for finding this one, I just added the photo............

This line shut in 1951 and the MGB started in 1951.
I owned a House that was built on this line and coverments were registered to Southern Railways

[johnfilmer]

I also saw the model at Faversham, very impressive.

[DaveTheTrain]

That's a very good model, comparing it to the photo shows how well researched it was.

[Stewie]

Well done Beachbum, it is indeed a model of Hythe. I saw it at the Faversham model railway show and was quite impressed. I was going to add that there was another station about a mile and a half away as a first clue! Over to you.

[Beachbum]

Hythe Station photo attached

[Jackie Paper]

The most similar looking ones I could find to that clapboard style were at Hythe and at Sandgate, but both of those were long-gone before the MGB era.

[Stewie]

Thanks DaveTheTrain the the SER lineage gave me a good clue, and after that it was a case of narrowing down!

Now for something completely different and yet also the same, sticking with railways, which station in Kent is this a model of? I have some clues ready should the trail go cold.

[DaveTheTrain]

Well done Stewie, it is Smeeth.

As JW says, it does not appear on disused-stations.org which is most odd.   The house in the photo is still there, and is known as Park Wood Cottage.  It now hosts bird-of-prey events.   The alignment of the road is the same as it was in the picture although the line has been doubled with the high speed service running next to it.  And finally the convertor station at Sellindge is close by.

Over to you Stewie.
DTT

[Stewie]

Because it is a railway question I feel honour bound to have a go! Is it the old station at Smeeth?

[johnfilmer]

I found it, but have had a couple of goes recently, I’ll wait it out.

Surprisingly it doesn’t appear in either the KentRail or Closed Station websites. How strange.

[DaveTheTrain]

You need to be heading West, JW.

[John Walker]

The other one that comes to mind is Sandling Park Junction?