When I was around six, I was taken by my dad to his textile factory in Stainland, just outside Halifax. We travelled by train from Southport, where we lived. During the day, I used to slip out and watch the trains go by on the line at the rear of the works, and so began my love of railways and, in particular, the railways of West Yorkshire, which has lasted all my life (I’m now 70).
Over the years, I’ve built several Yorkshire-based layouts, although I’m probably best known for ‘Bournemouth West’, previously featured in BRM and seen at exhibitions.
My latest layout, ‘Stanicliffe’, is inspired by my boyhood past and a number of superb layouts of the genre, not least of which was ‘Dewsbury Midland’. The setting is fictitious, somewhere between Mirfield and Leeds, though there is a place called Staincliffe,
