Kingsway Models Underground kits

The station buildings of the London Underground have long been recognised for their diversity of architectural styles, and in some cases for their design excellence.

 

The Kingsway Models range of 1/76 scale card Underground kits comprises station buildings, tube station platform tunnels, escalators, and a train depot.

They are suitable for use with OO gauge 1/76 scale model railways and can also be used as dioramas for model buses and other vehicles.

 

Arnos Grove tube Stn Kingsway Kit 
ARG Arnos Grove Undergound Station

Arnos Grove StnArnos Grove Station on the northern extension of the Piccadilly Line was designed by Charles Holden and is regarded as an outstanding example of 1930's railway architecture. The station was opened in 1932 and is now a listed building.
The kit builds into a scale model of the booking hall, but does not include the footbridge or station buildings. The model has a 'footprint' approximately 15" square. It might be possible to cut the building down to a half relief model but it would be a shame to do so. Also available in N gauge.

Price: C 
 
Arnos Grove Underground tube Station model in 1/76 scale

Arnos Grove Underground tube station by Kingsway Models

 

ARG Arnos Grove station model shown with Kingsway PAV paving kit added .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arnos Grove Underground Station
 

 

The ticket machines shown in the model above can be freely downloaded from the Kingsway Downloads site.

 

 

Kingsway Models Bounds Green Underground tube Station kit

BGN Bounds Green Station

Another of the distinctive stations of the northern extension of the Piccadilly Line, Bounds Green was designed by Charles James under the supervision of Charles Holden. It was opened in 1932.

The model measures approximately 9" wide by 10" deep. (The paving shown is not included)

Price: C
Bounds Green Underground Station Kingsway Models card kitBounds Green Underground station

 

Circle Line Brick Wall

Circle Line Wall - two types

Brick arched embankment wall for use on LT cut and cover lines.

Two types are available:-

CAA Circle Line Station Wall
Circle Line Station Walling kit

Circle Line station wall detail

 This  type of wall is that used at subsurface stations, alongside the platforms - these can be placed where the white panel is in the picture. Wall like this can be seen at South Kensington and other stations.

The kit includes approximately 15" of wall. 

Price: AA 

 

 CAB Circle Line Embankment Wall

Circle Line Embankment Wall kit
Circle Line wall arch detail

 

This  type of wall is that used on subsurface lines, alongside the tracks. Wall like this can be seen at many locations around the Circle Line.

The kit includes approximately 15" of wall, and some additional matching brickpaper.

Price: AA 

 

 

 


Ealing Common Stn Kingsway Kit 

ECM Ealing Common Underground StationEaling Common Stn

The station building at Ealing Common was opened in 1931 on what was then the District Line. The Piccadilly has served the station from 1932. Very similar to the station at Hounslow West, the building is a three dimensional development of the the style used on the Morden  extension stations. The model is approximately 10" wide by 9" deep.

Price: B

 

 

 

 

 

Ealing Common Depot Kingsway Kit  Ealing Common Depot

ECD Ealing Common Style Depot

This kit provides a depot building loosely in the style of Ealing Common and other Underground depots. It provides five tracks at two inch centres. The model is approximately 11" wide and 10" deep. It could perhaps be best used at the end of the layout with the tracks passing through to a fiddle yard. The kit has double thickness walls with printed detail inside and out and glazed windows and roof-lights.

Price: C

 

 
Kingsway Models card escalator kit

Kingsway models card escalator kitESCW wooden escalator

This bank of three escalators climbs a vertical height of 68mm and is 90mm wide. It could be cut down to a double unit if required.

Kingsway Models card escalator kitThe nature of the prototype is such that this is a slightly fiddly kit to make - but spare parts are included.
The finished model might benefit from a clear plastic curved roof to use in a sectioned Underground station scene.

Price: AA

 

 

Mornington Crescent Station built from the Kingsway Models Leslie Green station kit
Leslie Green Style Stn Kingsway Kit Leslie Green style station

LG Leslie Green Style Tube Station

The characteristic tiled tube station building is still a common sight in London. A basic 'kit of parts' was used in different ways for a large number of the early deep level tube stations. The kit provides a range of pieces that can be assembled to represent many of the prototype stations, or you can design your own. A variety of arched window combinations is provided along with internal wall, ticket machines and lift doors. A pair of shop units are included as well as a selection of station name signs, and a choice of round or rectangular small windows.

The kit is not intended to build a particular prototype, but allows the builder to either choose one of the many stations of this style, or simply to design his or her own.

The builder will have to provide extra card for flat roofs and external side walls (use plain brick paper for these). Many of the original buildings have had office blocks built on top. The kit will provide enough material for two or more frontages.

Price: B

Mornington Crescent Dtation built from the Kingsway Models Leslie Green styke station kit

Two examples of Leslie Green style stations built from the Kingsway kit. Above is a representation of Mornington Crescent station on the Northern line.
Below is a fictional station built to 'fill a gap' on a model railway layout - the variety of parts in the kit enable the builder to produce something that can be tailored to fill the space available.
 Minic Park station - fictinoal example with extra detailing

 


 

 

 

Maida Vale Station Kingsway card kit

Kingsway card kit Maida Vale StationMAV Maida Vale Station

Built in 1915 to a design by Stanley Heaps after the style of Leslie Green. This Bakerloo line station building measures approximately 10" by 11" for a corner site. 

 Price: B

Morden Stn early Kingsway Kit Morden StationMorden diorama by Nigel Ridout

MOR Morden Underground Station

The Morden extension of the Northern Line was opened in 1926. All of the stations on this part of the line were designed  by Charles Holden and have a portland stone 'folding screen' that frames the Bullseye window. At Morden the screen becomes a flat wall signifying the end of the line - other stations are sited on corner sites with the screen folding around the corner. The building has been changed and adapted since it first opened with the canopy being extended and then in the sixties an office block was built above.  The forecourt of the station has always been a busy bus station, and has consequently appeared as the backdrop in many photographs of London buses. The wartime Daimlers from Merton and Sutton featured in the early postwar years. Later the bus station was filled with RTs. The model is approximately 27" wide and can be built with part or full canopies and with or without the office block.

Price: C

 

 

 Rayners Lane Underground Station Kingsway Models card kit

RAY Rayners Lane Underground Station 

This building at Rayners Lane Station replaced an earlier wooden structure in 1938. It was designed by Reginald H Uren following the general principles formulated by Charles Holden at Sudbury Town and elsewhere. The building is designed to project outwards from the surrounding shops over the wide pavement, making it very hard for passing customers to miss. The model is approximately 9.5" wide by 6" deep.

Price: B

 Rayners Lane Station

 
Rayners Lane Stn

 

 

Northern Line stn platform Noorthern Line platform

TSN Northern line Tube Station Platform

This kit provides a length of tube station platform and tunnel of sufficient length to display a four car train of EFE tube stock. The platform is decorated inthe style of stations on the Morden extension of the Northern Line, such as Balham, South Wimbledon etc. The model length is approximately 38"

The kit includes card 'rings' onto which the curved station walls are assembled.  Ideally the model would be incorporated into a sectional tube station diorama, such as is illustrated on the Kingsway Inspirations page in the model of Colliers Wood Underground Station.

Price: B

 Exterior view of the TSN station kit.


 

 

 

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