Model Railway Forum

Sorting through some holiday snaps i came across this picture from our trip to New Zealand some years ago,it is of a notice that was pinned on the wall in the waiting room an old railway station in Nelson.

The date on the old fellows picture is 1916.

Puddles

Is a simplistic view but interesting. The railways are rather like the army which has a vast array of different types of jobs where different types of skills are needed. Railway jobs could be anything and everything from a gardener or painter to a designer or a parts buyer and everything inbetween... From office work which takes a huge amount of forms from designing timetables to avoid conflicting train movements to day to day resources... A huge amount of very specialist knowledge is needed to make the railways work which no one person could do as everyone needs each other to make the railways work.

In model form, we still have a hobby that reflects the prototype in the vast array of different skills we can apply, but we can get by on not knowing a lot just to run a train on a track... BUT the more we learn the more we can apply, and the more we get out of our hobby. It is all fun!