1967: CHARMING couple's FANTASY RAILWAY | Man Alive | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

"You can't go anywhere from this station - except in the mind"

Man Alive's Trevor Philpott looks at the people who try, by various means, to make their childhoods last forever.

Vic and Lou Martin live on the Isle of Sheppey, and spend their retirement running the Warden Central Station - a fantastic model railway world based on the pre-war Midland Main Line between St Pancras and St Albans.

Every day, the couple dress in full railway uniforms and go on duty - opening up their signal box and railway offices in the garden of their home - before diligently helping the little model trains on their way. Charming stuff.

Originally broadcast 16 August, 1967.





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