Ffarquhar Road

Ffarquhar Road
Background Information
Creator(s)	Rev. W. Awdry
Overview
Location	Ffarquhar Road, Island of Sodor
Year opened	1880 (MSR) 1967 (AR)
Year closed	1947 (MSR)
Operations
Managed by	Arlesdale Railway Mid Sodor Railway (formerly)
Line(s)	Arlesdale Railway Mid Sodor Railway (formerly)
No. of platforms	2 (1967-present) 1 (1880-1966)

Ffarquhar Road is a small village and a station on the Arlesdale Railway and formerly the Mid Sodor Railway. It is named after the road that links Ffarquhar to Arlesburgh. A watermill is located nearby.

History

In the heyday of the Mid Sodor Railway, the station had one platform on the south - or village - side of the line. The passenger shelter was solidly built using granite off-cuts from the nearby Marthwaite Quarry.

During the line's years of abandonment between 1947 and 1967, the shelter's roof collapsed, however the main structure stood up well. When being restored for the Arlesdale Railway, the station was given a second platform and the shelter was repaired, providing yet another link to the former Mid Sodor Railway.

A branch line now turns southward from the station to a former mine in the Hackenbeck valley, which provides a plentiful resource of weed-resistant spoil.

Appearances

• Railway Series

The Railway Series

• Duke the Lost Engine - Sleeping Beauty (mentioned on map)

Companion Volumes

• 1987 - The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways (mentioned)

Trivia

• Its Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway equivalent is Muncaster Mill Station.
• Although it is most likely a coincidence, there is a real place named "Farquhar Road" in the London Borough of Southwark.

Gallery

Muncaster, the basis for Ffarquhar Road

Station Guide

Preceding station	Arlesdale Railway			Following station
Arlesburgh Bridge Street		Arlesdale Railway		Marthwaite

Preceding station	Mid Sodor Railway			Following station
Arlesburgh Bridge Street		Mid Sodor Railway		Marthwaite

References

Mid Sodor Railway

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* Mk1/Mk2 layouts only

Arlesdale Railway

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