My good friend in Hokkaido Japan has been sending me some wonderful photographs of the small halts that can be found on some of the rural lines on Hokkaido Island.
The photograph here depicts the small single car halt for the hot springs resort of "Teshiogawa-Onsen", the small building contains a few plastic seats, a small heating stove ( you can see the chimney for this at the rear) and a toilet!
The wooden platform gives me memories of some of the similar halts on the Cambrian Coast line also served by single car diesel units.
This small halt would make a beautiful small diorama with the new Hokkaido type 40 single car diesel unit imminently available from Micro Ace in 1/80, operating on a shuttle into a tunnel back and forth, the total space needed, i guess 120cms, who says you need space for HO 1/80!!
