Victorian markets and stations

What is in the Victorian markets and stations pack

This pack builds glazed Victorian markets, arcades, train sheds, station canopies and footbridges. It sits in the London architecture range, and it's made of cast iron and glass.

You get 105 separate component models and 11 assemblies. The components are the kit: columns (plain and fluted shafts, plus bases, plinths, capitals and heads), brackets, lattice girders, roof glazed and opaque panels, lanterns, hip ends, valleys, gutters, lamps, gates, a market stall and platform edges. The assemblies are complete examples that place those components, so you can see how the parts meet before you build your own.

Two curved train-shed spans are in there, 18 m and 12 m. The tallest component is the station entrance bay at 7 m. The widest is the shed end screen, 16.946 m across.

Scenes you can build with it

Start with the assemblies, because they show the range quickly. A few of them:

• London ironwork · Covered market, two 9 m spans
• London ironwork · Island platform canopy
• London ironwork · Suburban station with footbridge
• London ironwork · Train shed section, 18 m arched span

The others cover an arcade with a central crossing and a hipped-end market hall. Then there's a 12 m train shed with wall-top cornice, plus a wall-side platform canopy and three T and crossing layouts at 6 m and 9 m.

A railway terminus is the obvious one: the shed rib segments and springers give you the arched span, and the platform surface and platform coping finish the edge. A covered market works from the 9 m spans, with the market stall and paving market underneath. An arcade uses the column head crossing and roof crossing lantern where two runs meet. If you want a quiet suburban stop, the station front and the fixed-rise footbridge do most of the work.

How the models are made

Every model ships as GLB (glTF 2.0 binary) at high, medium and low detail, Meshopt-compressed, with uncompressed copies alongside. 1 unit is 1 metre, so nothing needs rescaling when you drop parts into a three.js scene.

Textures are embedded in every model. That means one file per part, no loose images to track down, and no broken paths when you move things around.

High-detail triangle counts run from 20 to 2,818 per model. The small end is things like simple trim. The heavy end is the intricate ironwork. Drop to medium or low for anything the camera sits far from; a long train shed repeats the same rib segment many times, so the lower levels matter there.

You can also generate layouts in code. The download includes the kit runtime and a generator: londonIronwork({ layout: 'covered-market', span: 18 }), with other layouts such as 'arcade-crossing', 'hipped-market', 'train-shed', 'island-canopy' and 'suburban-station'. Market gates are hinged, and name boards take your own artwork.

Where it stops, and what to pair it with

This pack is structure, ironwork and glass. It doesn't give you a street of buildings around the market or station. The assemblies do borrow parts from two other packs, and the download includes them: London heritage shops and cafés, and London shopfronts. That covers the trading edge of a market, at least.

Beyond that, you'll need other packs from the range for the surrounding town. Georgian, Regency and mansion housing suits older residential streets. 1930s suburbs and interwar estates suits later suburban fringes, and Civic buildings fills in town halls and similar landmarks.

On licensing: commercial games, apps, websites, visualisations and client work are allowed. Reselling or redistributing the model files isn't.