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A very well laid out system with only a few dead-end sidings (I can only find six, white painted triangular shaped buffer stops) and plenty of access/storage space beside the tracks. It also include a complete circle of track, so beloved of railway modellers, but so seldom found in reality!
The sort of place that generated a lot of rail traffic between 1939 and 1945. However, as the railways were under government control and had fixed income, much of this traffic was never really paid for in the normal way. It could be (and is by some) argued that this period of government control was the final financial blow to the ailing private railways. A financial blow from which the railways never fully recovered and resulted in the work of Dr Beeching 50 years ago. '