My involvement at Gainsborough MRS was to be cut short by the contraction of the steel industry at Scunthorpe, where I worked at the time, resulting in me moving to new employment in Berkshire. I enjoyed this very much but the lack of realistic scenery was always a disappointment. I got involved in helping to operate Leeds terminus and building wagon kits. Here was a layout that operated prototypically with signal boxes, bell codes and timetables, but was scenically under-developed at the time. I remember that Reverend Teddy Boston’s ‘Oulton Priors’ was a particular favourite of mine at the time but I also loved the smaller layouts like the Tyling Branch and even non-GWR layouts like ‘Marthwaite’ and ‘Charmout’.Įventually, in my early twenties, I joined Gainsborough Model Railway Society with its huge O gauge layout depicting King’s Cross to Leeds. I avidly read old copies of Railway Modeller many times over, which in those days seemed to be full of Great Western layouts both large and small. I didn’t have a model railway at all as a child and was always more interested in models than the real thing. I went to school in Gainsborough, where in the late-1960s and early-1970s we spotted Brush Type 2s and 4s and EE Type 3s and their tatty freights running on the line at the top of the school fields. I spent my first 24 years living in North Lincolnshire. If we all followed our roots and early influences, my modest train set would have O gauge trackwork and blue diesels running on former Great Central metals, rather than Pannier Tanks on the Great Western.
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