Our train set

One of the biggest dreams a child has as they start to get older is to have a train layout of his or her very own with a proper electric controller, a good length of track and some scenery which the boy pictured has in the form of a picture to the side of his layout.

They will slowly acquire a selection of locomotives and rolling stock which he has a place to store them when not in use and maybe might build some kits of buildings plus make trees to go on their layout.

Mine was in the loft.  

Although I was raised as a boy, their was no reason as a gurl not to have one as girls do have trainsets today and as a sissy I just love steam trains and engines as much as boys and girls.

Sometimes two interests combine into one topic and that is very much what we have here as Andy and I were keen Stamp Collectors who like the thematic issues issued by Royal Mail at the time.

I also love trains and the big news in 1975 was the Advanced Passenger Train which promised to reduce journey times

Naturally every new train had boys and men wanting models to run on our model railways so manufacturers produced scaled replicas for us.

Sadly that service introduced locally being a major rail hub and a centre at the time for producing engines met more than its fair share of teething problems and was cancelled by the mid 1980's.

Tammy is a gurl who loves hur trains.