{"id":20,"date":"2020-06-21T18:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2023-03-26T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T09:19:37","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was born in the mid-1960s and inherited an interest in trains and model railways from my father. He grew up in the Stevenage\/Hitchin area of Hertfordshire and went to school on LNER trains. Because of this I have chosen to model the ECML but in BR days so I can run diesels as well as steam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a layout of sorts when I was a kid. It was in an outbuilding on the farm where I grew up and never really worked very well. Because we were relatively poor I had a motley collection of secondhand OO stock. I have fond memories of a little Dock Shunter with a light on the front and a Wrenn 8F 2-8-0 made of solid metal (it was so heavy). The track was a mixture of different types of old Hornby Dublo that didn’t fit together properly and the trains never ran satisfactorily on it. I did get a decent H&M Duette controller and just before my interest switched to girls and music I got a Hornby Zero One controller. This was way ahead of its time and in many ways the forerunner of today’s DCC. From what I remember it had a chip in each loco, allowed individual control and simulated different train momentums just like DCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I went off to college, subsequently started working, then got married and started a family most of this was left in a box in the loft. When I decided to restart the hobby I decided to start completely afresh and sold or binned it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve worked for over 30 years in IT in various government\/civil service departments and I enjoy fiddling around with computers at home as well (sad I know!). Part of the reason for my return to railway modelling is the numerous ways computer control is now used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still work full time (doing 12 hour day and night shifts) so I don’t have huge amounts of time to spend building the layout. I don’t tend to go up the loft as much in summer as there is usually other things that take precidence like gardening, holidays, trips, family, etc. I also don’t have a huge amount of spare cash to spend on the layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My two sons have grown up now so it’s time to get back to my roots and move from an estate in a town to somewhere more rural. This will mean dismantling my current layout but I hadn’t got too far with it anyway (no scenery yet for instance).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was born in the mid-1960s and inherited an interest in trains and model railways from my father. He grew up in the Stevenage\/Hitchin area of Hertfordshire and went to school on LNER trains. Because of this I have chosen to model the ECML but in BR days so I can run diesels as well… <\/p>\n

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