Midchester 4mm/OO
Midchester is a cathedral city in the west of the midlands, a part of the big conurbation with Birmingham at its centre.
By 1900 Midchester lacked a railway service to its centre and the city fathers were not at all impressed by this. Little land remained free for a railway to be built, and the railway authorities in Paddington and Euston thought it would be prohibitively expensive to provide a through route from the main line to the city centre.
However, it was agreed that what was effectively a branch line could be laid from the junction to the city centre, through a number of cuttings and a few short tunnels, and that services along the main line which stopped at the junction would be connected by this branch to the city centre.
