Obtaining Station Information

The 'British Railway Atlas 1955', published by Ian Allan in 2000 actually lists the station as 'Draycott and Breaston' - the name order might be important if you are doing an internet search.

Sources of information are:
Local Libraries - may have books and/or maps or collections of local history.
Local history societies.
County Archive in particular may have large-scale maps going back some considerable time.
Middleton Press are working their way down the Midland main line and connecting railways at present; a look at their website www.middletonpress.co.uk may show if they've published anything yet on the area you are interested in.
Track diagrams for a number of stations can be found on www.signalbox.org - although signal box diagrams are not to scale but do give you the layout. The Signalling Records Society (SRS) may also be able to help - I don't know their URL but there is a link from the Signalbox website above.

Hope this helps,
Regards,
John Webb

I'll browse the magnificent Warley MRC LMS section of the club library next week. There are several books on LMS stations if memory serves me right. I did a recent search on info about Moor Street Station (GWR) and so station books happen to be an area of recent research. More of the same should only take a few minutes.

I also did a search on a Pullman coach plate with the lot number on that I have and would you believe that I found a book with the precise info in after just 10 mins! Warley MRC have a very organised library!

I have an original LMS route map in my possesion so I will check out the route on that as there are books on "LMS around Derby" and such like.

As I am visiting the Warley MRC library I had better watch my borrowed DVD's as I am bound to be asked for them back!

Happy modelling
Gary

QUOTE (Gary @ 31 Oct 2007, 20:44) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Whilst browsing I discovered that the station was called Draycott and Breeston and not the other way around. Found a route/track plan of the station and that is about as far as I got. Its a bit further from Derby than I thought and more towards Rugby. Thats a section of track that does not seem well covered by the books I browsed through although I did discover that I should have been looking for Draycott and not Breeston towards then end of my session.

I was side tracked by talk of what national service men got up to with ladies of the night in non corridor compartmented coaches in the 1950's and that probably didn't help my search!

Happy modelling
Gary

Hi Gary, Draycott and Breaston as a place is 6 miles by road from Derby.

Is there any posability that you got copies of the track plan by any chance, as it would help a lot in my project. I found a "Book" at home but its not the one I was looking for unfortunatly, as nothing is included, but If my knowledge serves me correctly, there was a siding on the same side as the station building?

My email address should be in my profile, if not, just let meknow and I will pop it down on here.

Many thanks again

An excellent resource is this website, which lists references to most British and Irish station photogrpahs that have been published, although I don't know how up to date it is, bearing in mind the current output from Middleton Press in particular:
http://www.mulehouse.demon.co.uk/stations/index.htm
For your subject it came up with only four examples - I have extracted the information about each book from elsewhere on the website:
Draycott & Breaston (Mid.)
• 001806 Page 5
Publisher 0018 - Reflections of a Bygone Age, Keyworth, Nottingham
• 001806 : Derbyshire Railway Stations on Old Picture Postcards [B.Lund] (1995) 0 9462 4586 X
• 002302 Page 126
Publisher 0023 - Midas Books [ Address not known]
• 002302 : Midland Line Memories [B.Radford] (1983) 0 8593 6267 1
• 012201 Page 13
Publisher 0122 - Midland Railway Trust, Butterley Station, Ripley, Derbyshire
• 012201 : Midland Counties Railway [M.Higginson] (1989) 1 8721 9400 1
• PC/RT List6 (R125/24)
This is a Post Card source Note that since compiling the register, the Rokeby-Thompson collection, which was distributed by Robert Humm, has now been sold and is marketed as 'Stations U.K.'