Steve Wright

My first model railways were those built with my Dad when Tri-ang was relatively new, including series 3 track with it's grey moulded bases. Dad went on to boat building and I got into Tri-ang TT (which I still think is the perfect scale to work in) until life took over and I put it all to one side. 

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In my early 20's I got back into model railways and looked around for newer TT stuff, but it wasn't there, hence my move into N Gauge. It might not have lasted long as running and reliability was not great at that time, but I persevered and gradually better stock became available. With N I could get more into a small space, but I was dreaming big and began work on a model of Finsbury Park. This stopped when I realised I was not going to be able to make a good job of it with all of the urban features, so picked on Guildford as a more country location. Work progressed well, and I handbuilt all of the points using copperclad sleepers and rail made from the new Peco code 55 track. To use this however I had to file of the bottom 25thou or so of every rail which took a lot of time. 

 

While building Guildford I bought another layout to work on and run my stock, and this developed into "Lynford Junction" while Guildford fell to one side. "Lynford" was modified a few times, getting rid of the fiddle yard. I sold it in 1998 and had a spell modelling US railways with my friend Pete Laxton, but then began "James Street' as noted in the history.

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My normal operating area at exhibitions is the dockyard at "James Street", where I sit outside the layout making it ideal for me to talk to the public as well as make up and breakdown trains sent to and from "Lynford Junction Low Level"