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Parnhams
The layout is based on the GNR / LNWR joint line that ran from Bottesford to Market Harborough, and then on on with a branch to Leicester Belgrave Road.
Using the area around Redmile in the Vale of Belvoir as the location, it is set in the late 1930’s on the edge of a village. Maltings are served by road, rail and a spur link from the Grantham Canal. A halt serving the maltings has recently closed to allow the building of a goods loop in the Nottingham direction. The maltings has its own shunter pottering about as a succession of trains passes by on the line above.
Traffic would have been a mixture of passenger, goods, and ironstone from local quarries intended for Stanton Ironworks. In the summer months there would have been seaside specials allowing the odd B17 or Jubilee to pass through on what is normally a quiet line.
The buildings are taken from the local area, some measured from photographs of demolished ones. The help of the Local History Library proved invaluable in providing photographs and old Ordnance Survey Maps of that area.
The maltings itself is an amalgam of two buildings. One was at the side of the river Trent, and the other in Newark town centre. Both were demolished in the early 1900’s. Trent Navigation is based on a small repair unit north of Newark. The houses are from the local area which has been a great source of inspiration. The halt shelter is an outbuilding from Redmile Station.
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