Posted by Jock on March 18, 2008 at 09:06:09 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Strickland Junction - Wow! posted by Claire on March 18, 2008 at 03:02:14:
...I was seeing the platform roof that turns right, as a separate building in the painting,
whereas in the photo, it is quite obviously a corner. The next building is gone and it's
remaining front wall that becomes the wall.
I think that the wall in the SE corner is the wrong wall! AR's wall has a railway track
between it and the platform. I think that the wall is in the NW corner. Here a modern
picture shows a gabled end to the N end of the overall roof over the Windermere track.
Victorian railway architects had a fine eye for detail and it's fair to assume that the roof
originally had, or was intended to have, a hipped extension identical to the S end. The
removal of this hipped extension leads to the short section of wall sticking out.
This analysis brings us back to Peter's original theory - a mirror image of a engine facing
Winderemere in the bay platform (NW corner of station) with the fells added.