The Main Station

The Main station is, well, the main station at the Model Engineers Society. Here, passengers board and disembark from the miniature engines as well as purchasing tickets for each train ride. 
Many meeting points take place at the station as well as the odd events happening in the green just next to the platform. The station is mainly operated by the 7 1/4 gauge railway but there is a platform for those who wish to travel on the 5 inch line by accessing it via a footbridge that spans over the two railways. But passenger haulage for that line ended since before the stories began and now is used as a display of showing off the 5 inch line as the little engines steam passed. 
The green also used to have a specially made road for steam traction engines and steam lorries to travel along and to give rides. This feature was no longer used during the creation of the stories, but remains of the road are featured in the series as a path way to the workshops. 
On the 7 1/4 side of the station a passing loop is installed for any trains wishing to pass while another is loading/unloading a train at the platform. Accessing this road is done via a lever at the station's approach that drivers would use to switch the points. 
As well as the passing loop, the station also has a turntable for turning visiting engines around once they have been unloaded from the loading ramp at the station's throat. The turntable is hand operated by two bars at each end and set using spring slide bolts. 
During the corse of the stories several upgrades had been added to the station to help with the railway's operation. 
* CCTV cameras installed to prevent vandalism from taking place. 
* Point levers replaced with electric controlled point motors and 3 semaphore signals . x1 bracket type and x1 home type. Both have upper quadrant arms.
* A telephone link installed in the ticket office to contact both the Mess room, Workshops & Chairman's office. A light code informs the office whose calling. 
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Originally Cars used to base his office here, but was moved to the Chairman's office, just overlooking the station. 
At Christmas time, the station would be heavily decorated with a makeshift grotto for Father Christmas on the side of the opposite side of the station. Visitors would access the grotto via the footbridge, which was originally used to access the raised track. 
It is also noted that the station is the only point of the railway that can be seen from Bernard's office window at the Motor Car Society.
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