G'Day,
My name is Hamish, I live in New Zealand. I'm wishing after many years of dreaming to start a model railway. Will join a club, to start off rather than investing in Track/Scenery, Just buying LNER Steam Engines, LNER Coaches and LNER trucks, and running them on the Clubs Track. My Interest in Railway is often due the stories my Grandfather told me about is time working on LNER, before the War and he had to leave his beloved job and join the Army in 1939. After he was demobed in Burma in 1946 he was trained a brick layer to repair cities bombed by the blitz, he then returned the railways but found it a shadow of its former self, join the Merchant Navy, sailed with the New Zealand Line..............and well then the rest is history.
Some of the stories are about the signalmen at Colchester, the railways workers at Norwich, etc.. So I grew up with this love of Trains, particularly Steam, he take me on steam trains excursion, talk about wheel formations, signals, all this other railway information. LNER Is important to my Family my Grandfather, Great Grandfather (Well couldn't actually drive trains anymore after he returned from the Battle of the Somme), Great Uncle, Great Great Grandfather after he returned from the Boer War after serving with the Guards Regiment.
So that's where my passion for LNER Lies, admittedly Steam trains aren't top of my list,
1) Commercial aviation (1940-Present day) Favourite airlines BA ( BOAC, BEA, BCal), Air New Zealand, Qantas, Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines.
2) Military Aviation, Well speaks for itself!
3)= Steam Trains
3)= Naval Warships, Hood, Prince of Wales, Ark Royal, Warspite etc
Well that's about it,
Regards
Hamish
My name is Hamish, I live in New Zealand. I'm wishing after many years of dreaming to start a model railway. Will join a club, to start off rather than investing in Track/Scenery, Just buying LNER Steam Engines, LNER Coaches and LNER trucks, and running them on the Clubs Track. My Interest in Railway is often due the stories my Grandfather told me about is time working on LNER, before the War and he had to leave his beloved job and join the Army in 1939. After he was demobed in Burma in 1946 he was trained a brick layer to repair cities bombed by the blitz, he then returned the railways but found it a shadow of its former self, join the Merchant Navy, sailed with the New Zealand Line..............and well then the rest is history.
Some of the stories are about the signalmen at Colchester, the railways workers at Norwich, etc.. So I grew up with this love of Trains, particularly Steam, he take me on steam trains excursion, talk about wheel formations, signals, all this other railway information. LNER Is important to my Family my Grandfather, Great Grandfather (Well couldn't actually drive trains anymore after he returned from the Battle of the Somme), Great Uncle, Great Great Grandfather after he returned from the Boer War after serving with the Guards Regiment.
So that's where my passion for LNER Lies, admittedly Steam trains aren't top of my list,
1) Commercial aviation (1940-Present day) Favourite airlines BA ( BOAC, BEA, BCal), Air New Zealand, Qantas, Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines.
2) Military Aviation, Well speaks for itself!
3)= Steam Trains
3)= Naval Warships, Hood, Prince of Wales, Ark Royal, Warspite etc
Well that's about it,
Regards
Hamish