Culham in model form
Commercial kits
We have found very few commercially available kits for buildings at Culham station. Some are no longer in production and the manufacturers have ceased trading, but a new and interesting range is being developed by Osborn's Models as seen below.
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Monk's Gate Models kits
During the summer of 2024, Monk's Gate Models added a 7mm scale kit for the original Culham signal box to their catalogue. This box was replaced in 1952 by a relatively short-lived larger replacement, which was itself closed in 1961. The original box dated from 1874 and makes for an interesting model. This kit features planking to the floor together with the old fire grate and chimney breast.
Photographs of decorated model courtesy of Monk's Gate Models
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Spring 2025 saw the release of their 7mm scale kit for the Old Ticket Office at Culham. This kit comprises a mixture of laser cut MDF panels and 3D printed details. We were pleased to assist with the development of this kit and it did not replicate a common error. This is an excellent kit which makes into a superb finished model. The complicated chimneys are especially well represented combining 3D printed and MDF components.
Photographs of decorated model courtesy of Monk's Gate Models
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Late summer 2025 saw the release of their 7mm scale kit for the Down Platform building at Culham. This is another excellent kit, and although not strictly to prototype, again makes into a superb finished model.
Photographs of decorated model courtesy of Monk's Gate Models
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Osborns Models mixed media kits
In 2019 Osborns Models started extending the range of mixed media kits under their 'Arch Laser' brand with a number of items which are of particular interest to modellers of the Didcot to Oxford Railway. The Old Ticket Office at Culham is available in 'N' scale and, whilst not being 100% accurate, it is a beautiful and interesting representation of the building and we are pleased to have added an example of this kit to our collection. As we found when developing our pdf sheets for a card model, the chimneys proved difficult to reproduce satisfactorily. This issue has been overcome in the Arch kit by producing superb 3D printed versions which may also be purchased from them as separate items.
Other buildings in the range include the main and island platform buildings at Radley. All these kits are produced to 'N' scale.
Photographs of decorated model courtesy of Osborn's Models
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City Streets resin kit
During the 1980s up until the early to mid 1990s a range of 4mm scale cast resin kits was produced under the 'City Streets' brand. Included in their range was Culham ticket office and we are very pleased to have in our collection this fine example of a complete unmade kit as it would have been originally purchased. It is interesting that the painting instructions included in the box say that the building is 'currently painted green and white'. The kit itself did not include any canopy valance or cast-iron support brackets and repeats a common error, but is an otherwise accurate representation of the building.
TimberTracks laser cut wood models
Produced in 4mm and 7mm scale by TimberTracks, these wooden kits of the Old Ticket Office and the original building on platform 1 caught our attention. Construction and painting of the Ticket Office was the subject of a detailed article in the April 2015 edition of Railway Modeller. It should be no surprise if these buildings look familiar as these kits have been used on a number of 7mm layouts featured on the 'Introduction' page. As of 2024 all production of these kits ceased with examples remaining available only whilst stocks lasted.
We simply couldn't resist making the '0' scale versions of the Old Ticket Office and Down Platform building, and adding the 4mm ticket office kit to our collection, whilst they were still available. You can see the results of our efforts by clicking or tapping on any of the thumbnails below. Whilst the kits are not entirely accurate in a number of aspects, and we admit to making a few mistakes when making them, the results are really pleasing. They look splendid in their 'raw' state, so we are going to leave them as seen in the gallery. Since the photographs were taken we have added glazing (frosted where applicable) and cast brass door knobs. The chimney pots supplied with the Down building kit were white metal castings but we replaced them with ones which we turned from wood dowel.
