POTHOLE CITY - N
By Alsager MRC
Pothole City is a modern fictitous layoutThe name of Pothole City was chosen to capture the Lockdown moment, featuring the plethora of craters in our highways and byways that either risk damaging cars or making passengers travel sick by the constant swervingThe Scenic Section is one of suburban location on the edge of a small city, sited off stage, which justifies a major station. The immediate locale has workers’ houses, an indication of former industry in the area, and newer out-of-town enterprise with retail outlets, distribution and road transport hubs, and construction sites. It is always gratifying to hear children’s reactions to seeing Eddie Stobart lorries among the road traffic.At the first sight Pothole City is a typically roundy layout, but closer inspection reveals more than that with shunting opportunities towards the back. A mainline station occupies the layout front and centre, with four tracks by four platforms, two of which are islands spanned by a long footbridge. The platforms are long enough to accommodate full length passenger trains. The inner track leads to a long siding/head shunt. The main station buildings are of plastic and/or resin, with the passenger entrance being a platform height requiring the approach roads to the concourse to be gently inclined.
