Some people have been surprised by this 'reward to me' of a train set for the garden and queried my level of interest in trains.
I've always liked trains, although modelling them previously always struck me as hard work because of the electrics and the physical limitations of trying to do anything inside (DCC and the garden take care of both of these to some extent). I'm good for an hour or so in a railway museum, and would make a detour to take one in if convenient. On the other hand though I couldn't tell you much about lots of railway things or identify particular types of locomotives from pictures.
To me there is a bit of romance to train travel (and of course it requires no concentration, unlike driving).
When in Delhi we went to the Indian Railway Museum (this is the old site, which has many more pictures than the new site here . In France on the railpass we had an enjoyable (if shaky) ride down to Nice on the Chemins de Fer de Provence although you need to go this bit of the site for the pictures, and here for some nifty 360 degree photography. It was this where we saw papers being delivered, mail being collected, etc that set me thinking with a theme for a narrow gauge railway in miniature. In Italy we were on board the train as it went onto the ferry to get to Sicily. When in Germany I went on the Cog rail up the Drachenfels
Here locally in Exeter, then I've been known to go down to the local platform (OK so it's only 5 minutes walk) to see the steam train on the steam excursions.
Both of us would make time for trains - particularly steam trains. So interested but not obsessive.
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