Art Deco Arnos Grove London Underground Station and Bus Garages - Kingsway Models

Futher to todays earlier post, investigations have revealed more usful kits from the 30s.

Although these will be of more use those modeling a layout loosely based upon a London theme, they are both interesting and of the period.

See the Kingsway Model site for further informaion and ordering
http://www.kingswaymodels.com/page7.htm

British Art Decal Stations and Signal Boxes.

British Art Deco / Odeon Style Stations and Signal Boxes - Bachmann / Graham Farish

Bachmann (Europe) (Also Available under the Graham Farish brand) have released a number of cool looking 1930s era Station and Signal box structures in the Art Deco "Odeon Style" as used widely, but not exclusively in the Southern and London Transport regions.

The main building is an art deco station that is representative of many found in the Southern area, but looks to be modelled on the Sudbury Town station.

The platform sections are based upon those found at Harrow-on-the-Hill, .

There is also a Signal Box to complement the stations buildings and resembles those at Dorking(North), Bognor Regis and Templecombe.

As these items were released sometime back they have started to fizzle out, therefore a bit of searching will be required to track down some of these items....

42-064 Art Deco Signal Box 118 x 40 x 42

42-065 Art Deco Platform Centre Building 85 x 58 x 39

42-066 Art Deco Station Building 132 x 67 x 51

42-067 Art Deco Platform End Building 60 x 58 x 26

42-068 Art Deco Subway building 85 x 58 x 26

42-074 Art Deco Bus Garage 

Odeon Cinema (Low Relief)

I find this a really nice item, perhaps those outside of the UK will be less familiar with this cinema chain and their use of the Art-Deco in cinema constructions. These were after all the new theatres of there day providing access to the glamour of the 'movies' from Hollywood etc..

In the UK, it also has a nice tie-in as some of the design motifs of the period were also incorporated into the designs of their buildings ranging from the Stations to Signal boxes. A search on google for 'southern railway  odeon style' will give you an idea.

Available: Now, for online Download at £3.99

http://www.scalescenes.com/products/T006-Low-Relief-Cinema-and-Department-Store