Itīs hard to tell when I got interested....my father when I was young worked at the local steam railway and so I was always used as the chirstmas advertisement in the local paper meeting santa! That and Wolverhampton Wanderers christmas special advertisement were the start and end of my child modelling career...
but I did become fascinated by the trains on these visits..so something good came from it!
Plus they always had santa specials and war week-ends and slowly I just became obssesed by it! I guess it just stook.