CATSFIELD

What is it that inspires us to model the things we do? Maybe it’s somebody else’s layout we have seen at a show, in a magazine, or online. Maybe it’s a photograph of the prototype, or maybe it is a memory from the past.

I have been guilty of all those (and maybe others as well), and in the case of ‘Catsfield’, it’s a combination of them all. The layout was a small one by Martin Hogg called ‘Winkford’, the prototype was the Hawkhurst branch via various books and the memory was long ago visits to the then-infant Bluebell Line while on holiday in Sussex.

Nostalgia

I am of the post-war ‘baby boomer’ generation, growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, and so, I look back with fond memories of the last days of steam and early diesels in green livery.