How-To Guides and Tutorials
We've all seen these sites. Large painted hoardings surrounding a once elegant building, now reduced to rubble and a modern monstrosity being erected in its place. Or just an empty field with nothing happening for months at a time. Sometimes the new...
Railways have always needed workshops and repair facilities to maintain the loco and rolling stock. From Boston Lodge, to Wolverton, to the great sheds of Old Oak Common, there are countless examples of all sorts of shapes and sizes of buildings.
Ever since railway lines started to weave their way across our landscapes, people have always wanted to get to the other side of the tracks.
Railways were originally constructed to carry raw materials & fuels to places of manufacture, and also to carry goods to market. Often these materials were delivered to large factories, where they became anything from shoes to internal combustion...