One of my favourite childhood memories is from the early-1970s with my dad watching the trains passing by on the WCML, at a place called Stableford, near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. I can still hear the rails singing and the fence wires rattling as an AL1 roared by, resplendent in BR blue with Mk.1 and Mk.2 coaches in tow.
To recreate this memory in OO gauge, there are two ready-to-run options. Firstly, the model produced by Tri-ang-Hornby,
