#Maybe anyone modelled the MSR could use these ideas as inspiration?

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Regarding the stations on the Mid Sodor Railway, the illustrations in Duke the Lost Engine show us what Marthwaite, Arlesdale Green, Arlesdale and Ulfstead Road look like, while Awdry's Mid Sodor model layout shows what Cas-ny-Hawin looks like and we see Ffarquhar Road in it's Arlesdale Railway form in Jock the New Engine. That leaves us with the two Arlesburgh stations, Ballamoddey and King 'Orry's Bridge. I've been doing some thinking and I've devised some suitable prototypes for those stations.

For Arlesburgh Harbour, I was thinking it could be based on Porthmadog Harbour station on the Ffestiniog Railway in it's original form, prior to it's 1888 rebuild.

For Arlesburgh Bridge Street, I was thinking it could be based on Corris station on the Corris Railway. According to lore, Bridge Street was the main southern passenger terminus for the MSR, with only a handful of passenger trains continuing on to the harbour, so Bridge Street would have to be a fairly substantial station, and I think Corris makes a suitable prototype.

For Ballamoddey, I was thinking it could be based on Beddgelert station on the Welsh Highland Station.

For King 'Orry's Bridge, I was thinking it could be based on Duffws, the Ffestiniog Railway's original station in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Incidentally, although the preserved FR now has a new station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Blaenau Ffestiniog Central, the main building at Duffws survives today as a public toliet. If this fate also befell King 'Orry's Bridge, I wonder what Duke would have to say about it. I doubt it would suit his Grace!