Could your model railway come to life?
Well, it did for Mark Scott-Pearson in a wonderful series of books by Ray Pope!
When Mark, a young boy with an extensive model-railway in the attic of his parents’ house in the Cotswolds, finds a tiny, perfectly formed, jumper on one of his station benches, it leads to the discovery that his railway has much more life than he ever thought possible.
Telford, the jumper’s owner, is the one-inch-tall OO gauge leader of the ‘model-railway men’ ! He’s also the hero of this series of books written by Ray Pope and, sadly, only available these days by scouring the online book sellers. Copies are hard to come by, but if you can get them, they’re well worth it.
The first book,’ The model-railway men’, mixes the story of the discovery of the OO gauge family with lots of tips and tricks about running a model railway properly. It’s an easy read and in the other nine books in the series, Mark and his new little friends share many railway adventures, not just in the Cotswolds but from North Wales to the USA via Holland!
I wonder if anyone else remembers this great series of books? Time for a re-issue I think, come on Amazon!
The full list of books
- The model-railway men
- Telford and the American visitor
- The model-railway men take over
- Telford’s holiday
- Telford and the Festiniog Railway
- Telford saves the line
- Telford goes Dutch
- Telford tells the truth
- The model-railway men in America
- Telford and the prairie battle
