Clanfield station is made from Peco plastic building kits. I used the standard brick type platform units, cut down to a sensible width. The end part joining the platforms was made up from more plastic sections suitably modified. The station building is the Peco country station kit, suitably repainted to make it look more modern. I still need to add a ramp up to the entrance.

This was the first platform I'd made and there are some lessons. There were approx 1mm gaps between platform strips after assembly. I filled the gaps and repainted the platform tops with a spray paint, only to find the gaps changed in width as temparature changes. I hadn't glued the platform tops together; with a solid join that probably wouldn't have happened. To try to get visible mortar, I sprayed the sides grey then drybrushed the brick colour back on. This is OK, but the better method turns out to be to use a white or gray "wash" over the brick colour that you then wipe off before it dries. The idea is that the paint wash is retained in the mortar grooves.

The station building is lit with three surface mount white LEDs. One is under the canopy on the platform; the other two are in the building. All three are in series with a single 1K series resistor which from approx 16v DC gives VERY bright lighting. They are driven by an output from a CML Electronics MSC8 decoder, on DCC address 504.

I've added a fence down the front of the 1st platform, which only has a rail on one side. The fence is 1mm planking, painted white. This marks the boundary of the railway property; the other side will be a field and the churchyard.

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