Camel Quay

My introduction to model railways started in the early 1950s, when my dad bought me my first train set, the new Tri-ang Princess set. To this day, I’m not sure whose train set it was! Additional items were bought for my birthdays and Christmas and dad soon had his model train layout, which he never had as a child. All my railway items had been sold well before leaving school in 1965, and by that time, cars, wine, women and song had become a bigger attraction.

Back in 1974, while working in Chester, I had some time to kill, so I popped into WH Smiths and bought a copy of the latest modelling magazine. This was to be my reintroduction to the world of model railways. I joined Chester Model Railway Club, but it was my move back to the Stafford area that got me involved in railway modelling