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topic: 413"A Book of Model Railways"
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posted: 22 Apr 2008 02:57

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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A question on RMweb asked "who in the hobby has done the most to inspire you?", and I immediately remembered P. R. Wickham's "A Book of Model Railways" (1949). I got out my time-worn copy to make some scans, and seeing the familiar pages again I spent a happy hour transported 50 years back in time. It seems I'm not the only one:

From Phil Knife's Railway Pages
I read and re-read P R Wickham's 'A Book of Model Railways' a hundred times (and I still have that book!)
Imagine the effect of stuff like this on someone who thought model railways were what you could see in the Hornby-Dublo catalogue: :)

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posted: 22 Apr 2008 23:51

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Paul Boyd
 
Loughborough - United Kingdom

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For me, it would be Iain Rice without a shadow of a doubt.  I'd been fiddling about with model railways for years not really getting anywhere, then I bought one of Iain's books.  He made those things that I'd shied away from appear to be so simple!  Barry Norman, Tim Shackleton, Guy Williams, Stephen Williams et al came later for me, but it was Iain that dug me out of RTR OO :)



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