I have a long story. Are you sitting comfortably, then I shall begin.
I’m not a modeller, but I like the idea, I like looking at train models from time to time, but I have never owned a train set, which thinking about it now, is odd ‘cos I’m in my sixties.
Anyway, back in 2009 my FIL died, and his wife was going to chuck his train stuff in the skip. Well, I could see that although it wasn’t a top notch display, he’d spent a lot of time and money on it.
It was, still is, a Hornby Flying Scotsman set, with the photo track display that you lay on a base board, which he had built and it had quit a bit of real estate and rolling stock and other locomotives.
I had nowhere to put it, but I couldn’t let get thrown in the skip, so I borrowed a van, collected base board and all the bits took it home and propped the board up against the garage wall covered up, boxed up all the bits and that’s where it stayed for 5 years. Until we moved house. Then the removal men packed everything up, put it all to the new garage, where it stayed for another 10 years!
A few weeks ago, I finally gotten round to getting the board and bits out of the garage and set up in the house.
And so it begins and so do some challenges…
To be continued…
