I was away over Easter staying with my mother, so no chance to do any modelling, but there is a stash of Railway Modeller magazines from 1976 to 1984 to read through. It cost just 35p when I started to read it. It is incredible how many layouts are GWR branchline termini. Of the layouts that are point-to-point terminus to fiddle-yard, it must be over 90%.
It was also fun to spot the SuperQuick kits ubiquitous across so many layouts, as was the Airfix girder bridge. And all these things are still around today exactly the same. The bridge is now markets by Dapol, the SuperQuick range has a few additions, and Railway Modeller features more colour, but they all look the same as they all look the same as they did 30 to 35 years ago.
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