Vale Peter Ford

It is with a heavy heart we record the death of Far North Hobbies’ Peter Ford, who passed away on 19 February 2019 after a sudden heart attack. Peter Ford cast a large shadow over the Australian model railway scene in the pre-Chinese manufacturing days and his enthusiastic personality made him a friend of all he met.

Peter was a country boy from Parkes (NSW) who excelled at sport, but struggled with academia. He won a mechanical apprenticeship with the NSWGR and trained mostly in country depots. Unfortunately, his beloved steam had almost disappeared from the railways, but this did not curtail his interest or his ability to learn. Before leaving the railways he had been working as Relief District Manager, at times working out of Werris Creek.

Newly married, Peter and his wife Sonia left NSW for Far North Queensland where Peter worked on vessels in the tourist industry before becoming a marine engineer on a tug