... 1949). I got out my time-worn copy to make some scans, and seeing the familiar pages again I spent a happy hour transported 50 years back in time. It seems I'm not the only one: From Phil Knife's Railway Pages: I read and re-read P R Wickham's 'A Book of Model Railways' a hundred times (and I still have that book!) Imagine the effect of stuff like this on someone who thought model railways were what you could see in the Hornby-Dublo catalogue: prw_book1.png prw_book2.png prw_book3.png prw_book4.png Martin. posted: 22 Apr 2008 23:51 from: Paul Boyd For me, it would be Iain Rice without a shadow of a doubt. I'd been fiddling about with model railways for years not really getting anywhere, then I bought one of Iain's books. He made those things that I'd shied away from appear to be so simple! Barry Norman, Tim Shackleton, Guy Williams, Stephen Williams et al came later for me, but it was Iain that dug me out of RTR OO Parts ...