Train Mad Grandad

 ... and sending money pleading e-mails to my friends, I have had to start a new e-mail account. On top of the the lowlife used it to get into my You Tube account. You Tube wiped of all my videos on my channel. Hence, I have started a new channel Train Mad Grandad and started uploading all my video files. I reached the daily limit and will load more tomorrow and you might find some links on the site are not working. I will restore all videos as soon as the upload limit allows!   Stop Press All videos restored to the new You Tube Channel

 Hi there, I am hoping to go to the upcoming November Tolworth Showtrain Exhibiton in SW London and then in December to the Christmas Model Railway Show in Central Manchester.  I am also hoping to clear the easiest of all my railway bucket list items by visiting the Stalybridge Station Buffet and Bar! Plus any other visits to Railway Stations along the way!

 TMG is always looking for new material especially if it's from our readers and we now have our first contributors to our Readers' Stuff Section, as follows Blisworth on the SMJ (Mark Goodman) Ramblings of an Old Trainspotter (Pete Wilby) First Interest in Trix Train Sets (Neville Read) Preservation Railway Photography (Roger Brown) Find that Secret Railway Modeller (Andy Leaning) Railway Modelling and Dementia (David Powell)  Elsewhere on the site are new items such as, UK Railway Stations Picture Quiz Lydney Model Railway Exhibition New-ish Michelin I-Spy Book "On a Railway Journey" New-ish Michelin I-Spy Book "Steam Engines and Locomotives"   Plus, TMG has revised it's web links into easier to find categories! Web links here              

New to TMG this week!       The Liverpool to Harwich Boat Train Lydney Model Railway Show 2024     The Ballad of Little Dan and the Rivet Counters   A Vic Millington Inspired Diarama

 Have just caught up on the website after holiday away on a canal narrowboat! These are new additons to the site, hope you enjoy! Editors railway bucket list Lydney Model Railway Show Oxford Canal and railway history stops Fenny Compton Railway Station (disused) Banbury Railway Station Legend of Eggy Joe Loco favourites :LNER B17 Footballer Class

 Apologies, life has got in the way of adding to the website but more is definitely to come this week including railway stories, a narrowboat trip finding bags of railway activity and history within a short walk of our moorings! This weekend a visit to an old stomping ground of Lydney and Forest of Dean Model Railway Club's annual exhibitions, so some photos to follow very soon! One layout I did not see was the Layout in a Carboot, but here is the local online review!   Swift makeover as car becomes ‘train trailer’   WHEN David Fish and Lisa Hill turned up to the recent Forest model railway show in Lydney, they didn’t have to worry about unloading their layout and putting it away again. That’s because their display has a permanent home in what was the boot of a car. David and Lisa, along with children James and Sophie showed the layout at the show organised by the Forest of Dean Model Railway at the Dean Academy. It took David and Lisa, who live in Lydney, and David’s dad George ab