Swiss Chris Railways
York Fiddle Yard
Bonton Station
Bustham
Model
Railways
BONDALE - BUSTHAM STATION
Bustham is at the head of Bustdale. While
there is not much industry there, agriculture
supplies a lot of the goods traffic.
Passenger traffic is catered for by loco hauled
stock (LNER V3 or GWR 14XX) which will also
carry out any goods traffic.
The station was originally built as Berg on the
Nordbad layout, but during the rebuild was
slightly modified. The original idea was that
this was to be the last station built, but an
impending visit by my great-Nephew, Nate,
meant a quick session of track-laying, wiring
and points motorised. He was quite happy
playing with it, and it was left in the living room
for when he came.
Some of my locos being put through their paces and the
testing of the track layout at Bustham. As can be seen, the 3
way piont needed moving to the left, which was done a little
later. The plastic buildings were Faller kits with the church
of Saint Buster having a working bell. The sdignal box was
fitted with an KED light and was a Metcalfe model free with
a copy of Railway modeller.
The analogue DC control panel for Bustham. The points switches were made by Märklin. The left hand controller dates
back to the mid 1960s and power came from an H & M transformer. The panel itself was desihned to be detached from the
layout and was going to be mounted on the main layout when Busthm was installed. A 25 way D type connector was wired
in accordingly. It is now temporarily surplus as the main layout is now DCC controlled, but the plan is to use the items on it
for a small layout based on Trix Twin track.
