Seen here the morning after at Taronga Zoo, Sydney - a 'must visit' even if you're not a zoo
person. And to make certain there's no confusion, I'm the one wearing the shades.
Childhood in the 1940s, in a home night and day within the sight and sound of the steam
railway, a busy main line to one side, and a wonderfully creaky colliery line, visible from
the bedroom windows, to the other, made a lifelong interest in railways almost an
inevitability. Maturity expanded that into a wider interest in the history and development of
railways the world over, whilst many years spent in the civil aviation industry broadened
horizons in other diverse directions. The study of recent European history (late 18th Century
onwards) nowadays I find absorbing, although I make no claim, at least as yet, to profound
understanding. As to this website, its purpose I see being simultaneously to enlighten and to
entertain.