Statement from Train Mad Grandad!
As from today, after all my efforts put into trying to produce an entertaining and inclusive vehicle for as many rail and modelling enthusiasts, I have decided to stop wasting my time and just leave the site to disappear when the paid hosting is coplete in May 2025. Visitor stats are on an ever decreasing downtrack. Indeed, since August 9th, 2024 of the last first time visitors, only 7% ever returned for further visits. Nobody has requested a subscription to regular newsletters I clearly have not understood the need for such a website!
I would like to say a REALLY BIG THANKYOU to those few special people who offered kind words and encouragement. Your support was much appreciated. I started the website to offer enthusiasts a chance to express themselves as well as giving me a personal challenging activity as 72 year old at a time when dementia is becoming a greater problem.
Yours sincerely,
Trevor Powell
Sunday, October 13
Thursday, October 10
Friday, October 4
What's New on Friday, 4th October, 2024
Have just caught up on the website after holiday away on a canal narrowboat!
These are new additons to the site, hope you enjoy!
Sunday, September 29
Very much a Static Week on the Website
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 about five months to convert the back end of the Suzuki Swift and install the lay-out.
Sunday, September 22
Sunday, 22nd September, 2024 "What's New on TMG?"
Back after two weeks away in central England on our timeshare canal narrowboat, Lynne must have thought the last thing she would be considering was railway history. She is very tolerant, fortunately!
Here are the new uploads for today!
Railway Bucket Lists ; Tell us about your railway/model railway ambitions? Let us know!
First Model Trailway Train Sets : A rite of passage in the fifties, sixties and seventies?
Latvian Suburban Train Journey : On a cold foggy December day!