SHENSTON ROAD STEELWORKS
Growing up in Birmingham and the Black Country, my early childhood in the 1960s was in an area surrounded by heavy industries. As a result, I’ve always had a fascination for the noise, dirt, grime and smells of the once common large industrial sites. A way of life that is now mainly disappeared in the UK.
As part of my layout ‘Shenston Road’, I had the ambition of recreating a representation of a steelworks and the associated traffic flows. I have been lucky enough in my working career as a freight train driver to have had first-hand experience of steelworks and their rail traffic. I have been able to incorporate my knowledge and observations in trying
