Orwell St Johns
OO Gauge
Orwell St John's is a modern image layout modelled
between the BR Blue and Sectorisation Era's, thus allowing for a wide
range of liveries, locomotives and rolling stock to be run.
Orwell St John's was built at the turn of the twentieth
century to serve the steel works and the then fledgling port about 5
miles away. BR couldn't see the need to build the through line as the
majority of the traffic from the port headed up north and very few
trains headed down to London. After the Beeching era the plans for
extending the line were completely shelved. That is until the late
eighties early nineties when pressures from the Port Company due to the
volume of freight traffic having to be run round at the station have put
the plans back onto the drawing board, along with the possible
electrification of the line.
The majority of traffic running into Orwell St John's is passenger
services into London. The amount of freight traffic that turns up
at the station does vary from day to day. The loco depot itself although
small supplies and maintains a wide ranging fleet of locos that are used
to serve the Quarry, Steelworks, Port and the Power station.
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