Pola station building

 Prototype examples

 

This is the prototype of the Pola 

 

This is how it should look, mostly brown.

I like this version 

There seems to be a choice between all over dark brown with limited amount of white details and this ‘toffee’ brown version. I have always used the dark brown version.

Thank you

Essentials for micros

 Useful stuff should include the basics for creating a micro layout.

Baseboards:- both Grainge and Hodder, Scale Model Scenery offer a range of lightweight self assembly boards.

G&H Click here

The G&H 400mm deep range offers two options that are perfect for a slightly wider  micro using cassettes

400x400

1200x400

SMS Click here

I have found the SMS BO17 ‘Layout in a box’ particularly useful but would prefer a slightly wider board 1102L x 250H x 221W

Cassette:- Intentio Models Click here offer a range of self assembly cassettes that match perfectly with track laid on 3mm sub-road bed

Zierow

Zierow

 

Zierow is a municipality in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The municipality is administered by the Klützer Winkel office headquartered in the town of Klütz. Since 11 July 2015, the holiday destination Zierow has had state recognition as a health resort. The municipal area of Zierow borders the Hanseatic City of Wismar and is situated on the Wismar Bay, opposite the islands of Poel and Walfisch. The municipality has an approximately two-kilometre long coastal section of the Baltic Sea at Eggers Wiek. The districts of Eggerstorf, Fliemstorf, Landstorf and Wisch are all part of Zierow.

Having looked at the best of the smallest micros, I think that it is possible to combine an element of each. 

 

A disused railway line beside an estuary similar to the Warnow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the Baltic, the scene will be a tiny fishing port on the estuary. 

The essentials are the Grainge & Hodder boards are lightweight, 120cm x 40cm for the main board and an additional 40cm x 40cm storage yard, the additional width is useful for Intentio medium cassettes

Three small turnouts. Peco 75 small radius. 

Maritime theme of a lightly laid spur to a quay, there must be water.

 

Just one or wooden buildings, a wooden lock-up and office

 

The office would be better painted to match the existing wooden lock-up.

In keeping with being so close to the water, sparse hardy vegetation, grass, heather, gorse with sand everywhere. 

This track plan but ignore the other items

Stock

Very limited, T3 plus one 4w guards and a couple of vans, for passengers there is the Vt135

Tiny wooden station buildings

 Auhagen offers some very attractive tiny stations:-

11448 Deinste 

 

11449

 

11357

Wills SS67

Falller and Busch offer similar sized buildings

 

Busch Gunzen

Faller/Pola Rothausen

By the sea - 2

 Marschbahn Glückstadt - www.marschbahn-glueckstadt.de

The idea of ​​building railways in Schleswig-Holstein followed the experience of medieval merchants who managed trade between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea: they avoided the dangers around Kattegat and Skagerrak with a detour of 450 km and looked for waterways through Schleswig-Holstein, e.g. from Lauenburg to Lübeck, a journey of about 14 days, or later via the Eider Canal, a journey of about 10 days. In 1830, English entrepreneurs came to Glückstadt with the proposal to build a railway line from there to the Baltic coast. 

After lengthy discussions, they approved only a railway line between the port cities of Altona and Kiel, with a branch line from Elmshorn to Glückstadt. After the First World War, the Marsch Railway served as a shipping connection to Sylt. Therefore , a high-performance and fast connection over the Hindenburg Dam was put into operation in 1927, the Marschbahn has thus acquired its current form and significance.

The line to the harbour