Gloverton

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Gloverton is one of the end boxes and has a small terminus station. Named after bassist Roger Glover. It is an industrial area featuring factories, a large dairy and a fire station.

Most of the buildings in this box are Metcalfe kits, with various changes made along the way. The Fire Station is the old Metcalfe Bus Garage kit, or at least a part of it. The dairy which forms most of the back of the box is the Old Factory kit made up as low relief, but has had it's height shortened to fit the box. It's named McBrides Dairy after the bands most recent guitarist, Simon McBride. Next to it is Airey Electricals (Keyboardist Don Airey), this building was designed and built from scratch.

There is a low relief Print workshop, Simper Printers (the original bassist was Nick Simper way back in 1968), this is made up of the remaining part of the Old Factory kit and a scratch built extension.

The Ramshackle Workshop kit, used here as an engineering works, Morse & Co (Steve Morse, Guitarist), is almost as the kit should be built, but the chimney has been shortened to fit the box.... unlike the same building in The Ivy Line set of boxes where I built the chimney as removeable.

The small station building is a leftover from an early version of the Metcalfe Country Station.

A single line of track enters the box to terminate.

This box has the power inputs for the track with the plug sockets fitted in the side of the box.