I sort of have a model railway.
When I was a little boy, I dearly wanted a train set. My parents weren't well off, but one birthday they managed to find a HUGE boxed set in the sales. It was my pride and joy! Little did we realise at the time that the reason it was cheap was that it was being discontinued, so I wasn't easily able to add to it afterwards.
Those of you of a certain age will already have guessed that this was the mid-1960s and my parents had bought me a Triang TT set. After a year or two I joined the 3mm Society (member number 926) and was able to buy a few more bits and pieces, but then I too discovered sex and beer and rock 'n' roll and the lot was packed away for the next 40 years....
Fast forward to a couple of years ago. A neighbour's brother in law had died and he was disposing of the estate, which happened to include an "attic full of model railway stuff, his lifelong passion - trouble is I don't know how to sell it because it's this really weird scale, somewhere between
OO▸ and N"
I immediately recognised that he must be talking TT and offered him a *cough* sensible price for the whole lot
It took me 40+ years but finally, I had added to my train set. 30 coaches, at least 12 locos, truckloads of trucks, plastic buildings, unmade kits, 80 sets of points, yards and yards of track. Even a Triang turntable. Most of it boxed.
I confess I haven't had time to do a lot with it - it's been added to the long list I have of "retirement projects" - but I wouldn't part with it now for the world.
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