Windsor Railway Station No2 (Hornby Series)

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Windsor Railway Station No2 (Hornby Series)

Hornby Railway Station No2, detail.jpg Hornby Railways Station No.2, detail with "Modelled Miniatures" figures and luggage (i)
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location:
Arch Four , Area 37
Hornby Wall (display)
Shelf 4
1920s

A tinplate gauge 0 model Railway Station, made by Hornby in the 1920's.

The station comes in three parts, a central section with the station building, and two flanking ramped platform sections that each have white fencing and "WINDSOR" signs.

The station building has a sloping roof with two chimneys set on either side of a high (printed) arched through-way, has opening green tinplate doors. Various detail variations date this version fairly tightly to ~1924-26.

Optional lighting

Early models of the station were designed to take a pair of small candles for lighting, and were fitted with two internal candle-holders, with air entering the station through the open windows, and the smoke exiting via the two tinplate chimneys, one directly above each candle-flame.

Catalogue illustration (1925)

Hornby Series "Railway Station", with two chimneys and "Windsor" signage, from the 1925 Hornby Book of Trains


References

  • Chris and Julie Graebe, The Hornby Gauge 0 System, second, revised edition (New Cavendish Books, 1999) pp.232-234 ISBN 1872727522