The Model-Railway Men - Softcover

Pope, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995729115 ISBN 13: 9780995729117

Publisher: Ray Pope Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Mark’s model-railway was the most important thing in the world to him. It was not just a toy but a carefully worked out system designed to operate as like the real thing as possible. And for Mark, of course, the real thing meant the Southern and L.M.S. railways in the great age of steam. But what Mark did not realise, until he saw the pullover, was that he and his father were not the only ‘steam’ enthusiasts in the house. The pullover was so small as it lay on a bench at the end of a station platform on his railway. Old, torn and grubby as it was, and much too tiny even for a doll to wear, Mark realised at once that it was a real pullover. So he waited motionless, hardly daring to breathe, for it owner to come and claim it. That was how he met the first of the model-railway men, Telford. “Smoke and steam and the smell of oil” were what Telford and his sons and grandsons loved and soon Mark was learning things from them about his railway that he had never known before. But the railway people were a big responsibility, too. They had to be kept hidden from his parents. They had to be helped to get their food and water and replacements for their worn-out clothes. And it was not always easy to help them for they were fiercely independent and sometimes rashly brave. There were times too when Mark resented their ‘bossing’ and tried—sometimes with disastrous results—to get his own way in spite of them. But even at the worst, like the night when they had to send out an S.O.S. to save Gresley’s life, knowing them brought Mark that special kind of friendship only fellow enthusiasts share.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ray Pope Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0995729115
• ISBN 13: 9780995729117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96