Childhood fascination: 03179 in N (part 1)…
It’s the price that swung it. £69.99 for a wonderful Graham Farish shunter - and in my favourite livery from childhood. Plus, I’m due a YouTube payment of about that for December and January’s advert revenue on the channel - so almost a reinvestment… I know I don’t need to justify myself to you lot, many of you will already be personally familiar with the process of accidental retail therapy. Here we have talked before about the power of nostalgia (rather than melancholy) and one important aspect of railway modelling being the ability to escape to a mental space before the stress and pressures of adulthood, when life was simple and revolved around monthly issues of Railway Modeller, a new train for a Christmas and pocket money that never went much beyond a wagon from the local model shop … Buying this model, on a whim, back then would have been the stuff of dreams. I must really have made it… 03179 in its unique Network South East livery has always held a special plac...
