5 most pivotal figures in UK modelling

I' would agree with the list below although surely Iain Rice should be in there too? Mike H

I'd say that Chris Ellis has to be in there somewhere, OK he's primarily a military modeller but I have seen him do plenty of railway stuff as well.

I'd add P.D. Hancock (Craigshire) and Peter Denny (Buckingham)to the list

- for me (and I suspect many others of my generation) their work more or less defined what a model railway *ought8 to look like. Ian Futers for bringing the "minimal terminal" back into prominence.

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Well, that saved me some typing....Thank you, Mr Breen. ;-)

Steve,

I agree that these gentlemen all have had some input into the UK model railway scene, but I think you left out people like Henry Greenly and W. Bassett-Lowke who definitley did shape the UK model railway scene - like it or hate it :-)

Jim.

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What's Frank Hornby done to annoy you? I'd suggest his impact was far greater than ANY of the names mentioned so far!

John.

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Ditto.

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John,

I thing Greenly and B-L pre-dated Hornby as far as model railways were concerned, and the pair of them left us with our peculiarly British scale/gauge ratios :-) Mind you, it has given us a lot to talk about up till now, and will no doubt for many years to come. I don't think Hornby, or any of the other names mentioned so far, could achieve that :-)

Jim.

Frank Hornby?

Phillip Hancock is also one of the nicest men I've met. But if you are an O gauge type Jack Ray has to get a place for his involvement with the Guild.

Ken.

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Cyril Freezer thought that A.R.Walkley was the originator of our hobby (HO anyway...) I would definately have him as N01 on the list.... Beowulf

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Agreed but AR Walkley is still there at no1 befoe these :) (He invented HO