Why railways? Why railway modelling? No idea, but I am glad you asked.

Well my interest in railways goes back now for far more years than I care to remember. My late father worked on the East Coast Main Line between Peterborough and Grantham and then later on, on the former Midland line between Peterborough and Leicester, predominately at Stamford. My grandfather also worked on the railways, and I believe my uncle also had a very brief sojourn somewhere connected with railways too. So you could say I was born into it, I also lived a matter of yards away from the East Coast Main Line at Tallington, just north of Peterborough, in the railway cottages, at number one, for the best part of 20 years, so this probably helped a little bit too.

Talking of Station Cottages, I am interested in obtaining some pictures of Tallington station as it used to be, before they knocked it all down in 1961. I did once have a battered 6 by 4 snap of it, but unfortnately it has been lost over the years. Can you help? I would like to see what it looked like, the track plan, the buildings etc.

I have dabbled in model railways over the years, with OO gauge originally, starting with Triang Super 4 track and a mixture of Triang and Hornby Dublo stock. I eventually amassed quite a large amount of trackage. N gauge and some Graham Farish and Minitrix equipment, saw an attempt to get something 'larger' running in a smaller space. It never really quite materialised as imagine, and the N gauge was sold off. I then went back to OO gauge for a while, before O-gauge and Lima class 33's and mineral wagons beckoned.

Nowadays I try my best to model in 16mm scale narrow gauge, you can see some of my attempts on the pages 'My Railway'. I have been a member of the 16mm Narrow Gauge Association (Membership No. 5155) for about five years. We've recently acquired an IP Engineering 'Jessie' to add to the locomotive roster.

Other interests include the Internet, my other websites, computers, digital photography, gardening, earning money and family commitments, music (60s and 70s mainly), and collecting bank notes from around the world.