173 - Pola, station building “Silverton Station” 330907 for G scale garden railway, American depot

Pola, station building “Silverton Station” 330907 for G scale garden railway, American depot Plastic, coloured, station building “Silverton Station” by Pola (330907) for the G scale garden railway on a rectangular wooden base, modelled on a small American depot with grey shingle roof, cross gable above a bay, brick chimney, ochre board walls with dark brown beams and plinth cladding, white muntin windows, canopy on brackets at the gable side, double door and loading ramp with steps, lettered “SILVERTON”, “RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY”, “Waiting Room”, “WESTERN UNION” and “TOILET”, with posters such as “Denver and Rio Grande Railroad”, “Old Dutch Cleanser”, “Yellow Cab” and “Pepsi-Cola”, with the figure of a railway official in blue uniform holding a lantern, removable roof, doors and windows open, all in good used condition, 51x37.5x34.5 cm (LxWxH) Pola, founded in 1957 by Horst Pollak and based in Rothhausen in Lower Franconia, produced building kits for the H0, TT, N and gauge 2 scales; in 1997 the range passed to Faller, which has since sold the garden railway buildings as Pola G. “Silverton Station” represents an American wooden depot of era I with ticket office, office, waiting room and loading ramp; the Denver and Rio Grande reached Silverton, Colorado, in 1882. G scale goes back to the Lehmann-Groß-Bahn (LGB) with 45 mm gauge introduced in 1968, whose weatherproof buildings are designed for outdoor use; a depot like this is the classic western station as LGB accessory and garden railway building.