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I am 53 years old and have been building models since I was nine, starting with standard "Airfix" kits. In my twenties I moved on to Radio Controlled racing cars with my local club (W.R.C.M.C.C.).I then moved on to R.C. model boats, founding the Platt Fields Model Boat Club in the process. Next I got interested in Amateur Radio after a brief flirt with C.B. becoming licensed in 1986 (Class 'B'(FULL from 2004)). At the same time I became interested in computers (ZX81,Spectrum and finally P.C.'s) which co-existed nicely. However whilst recovering from a hip replacement I took my wife to the National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire. Well, suitably filled with nostalgia of Liverpool and Blackpool trams I am hooked.
It is also my opinion that the "Metrolink" is NOT a tram system but a street (in places) railway, and nothing will convince me otherwise. The very word "tram" conjures up in my mind the British double-decker, with the occasional single-deck cars running along the roads. And Oh what a calamity it is that nobody had the foresight to save a Manchester Standard Bogie (or Pilcher) car for posterity. We will have to make do with single deck car 765 in Heaton Park.!!! and hopefully before too much longer, Open Top 4-wheeler car 173 which is nearing completion at the Manchester Transport Museum.
