The main line passes over a level crossing which has a crossing keeper's cottage and signal box. It then goes through a tunnel
(under the branch terminus ) under a road bridge, past a church  (still not quite completed ), crosses a river by a large plate girder span then under a second tunnel
before entering the station again. The main line, although completely fictitious, is based on the line from Aberdeen to Inverness in North East Scotland. The junction station is called Garioch which gets its name from a rural district in Aberdeenshire through which the real main line passes.

The branch line is based on an actual prototype route which leaves the main line at a junction called Kintore, about 15 miles north west of Aberdeen.  It is about 16 miles long and heads westwards to Alford, a small market town about 28 miles by rail from Aberdeen, where I was brought up as a boy. The model station, named after the prototype, and yard layout is being modelled as near as possible to the real thing with the buildings being modelled using plans obtained mainly from the Great North of Scotland Railway Association of which I am a member.

The locomotive stud at this stage consists of 3 types, none of which actually ran over the Alford branch. The B1, no 61346, was shedded at Aberdeen ( Kittybrewster ) and operated over the main line for most of its life. The small 0-4-2 tank is one of two ex Great North of Scotland class
Z5 dock tanks used on Aberdeen Harbour quays and the third engine, an ex-Great Eastern 'pommie' class F4 2-4-2 tank was used on another local ex GNSR branch line from Fraserburgh on the north east coast to a small fishing village called St Combs. The route was a designated light railway and, as most of it was unfenced, the locos were fitted with cow-catchers, very much
a rarity on British Railways. It is eventually hoped to run the correct branch locos one day when models have been completed.