For quite a few years I had been collecting kits, stock and materials, but it has not been until I researched Finchley Road for a club layout that I got drawn into the North London Line – the scale and variety of traffic is astonishing and I kick myself for having missed the opportunity to trainspot on the route in my youth. I managed to travel between Broad Street and Willesden only twice in about 1979/1980.
I like the run-down element of the east end of London in the fifties & s
