About Me & Trains

Born in the early 1960's, I grew up in England as a deprived child - I never had a train set

Well, we had lots of Lego, including an electric train and rails that I cut up to make turnouts (the blue track in the picture, though that's a purchased turnout). But not a real train set.

We had lots of Scalextric (slot cars) too (the picture at the side is from my friend Joe Fialka's Tanaka circuit). We had 4 lanes, cross-overs, pits, chicanes; the lot. But not a real train set.

I traveled to school on trains. Real trains. I traveled around Europe too. Real trains. But still no train set.

I remember when I was about 11, the 16 year old brother of a friend was hand laying Z-scale track for a small suitcase size layout he was building. I thought it was a amazing, the small trains and the tiny buildings and scenery.

Fast forward fifteen years and my first son is born. Great, this is the opportunity I'd been looking for and so, I set out on a mission to get my train set.........