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SLT - Scottish Lost Terminus (or Termini)...

Regular readers will recall my love of the 'single line terminus' as a muse for minimum space models. Today though, a play on words and re-use of the acronym - we have Scottish Lost Terminus... Illustration: James Hilton 2024 I'm a sucker for a good photos and I've got a lovely book of photos by Derek Cross. If you go beyond the Far North and Kyle lines with their wonderful scenes you'll find all sorts of modellable railway in BR blue... but two in particular here - Peterhead and North Berwick - really caught my imagination. Flicking around for photos of Peterhead I realised just how big a station it was - as is often the case where land is cheap. However, a convenient unloading shelter can help us frame a hi-fi micro, perhaps adopting 'Getting on my Wick's train shed interior, blended with 'Fancy another beer's split scene - I think this would allow some interesting architectural modelling in whatever scale you fancy. Limited operation would see an

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