We had a good turnout last Saturday for visiting speaker Tim Shackleton's presentation "Back in time with a camera". Tim is a well-known modeller and former editor of MRJ, and made the journey up north for the weekend. He even went home with a stack of old MRJs courtesy of our "free to a good home" table!
The talk was a fascinating journey through Tim's near-lifetime of photographing the real railway, with the unusual but rather poignant structure of starting with recent freight operations and progressing backward in time, all the way back to his schoolboy exploits with a Kodak Brownie. His overall point (as I remember it) was that he's not interested in nostalgia. Rather, he is enthused by the fact that the real railway – like the world it runs through – is constantly changing and evolving. This passage of time adds another dimension to the hobby.
As always, we rounded off by enjoying a hearty tea!
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