I guess with 64 votes out of 429 members ain't too bad :hmm    dunno what happened to the rest of the membership ? :bump

I am 21 and some months.

  I am old enough to know better and still young enough to do do it.

 Cheers

 Ian

Seems to have become 'un-stuck'.

Edit. That's a different icon………….. don't remember seeing that before :hmm

Well I just changed my vote. I had a birthday last month. It's kind of sad to move forward 10 years with a single click.

[user=606]Sol[/user] wrote:

I guess with 64 votes out of 429 members ain't too bad :hmm    dunno what happened to the rest of the membership ? :bump

Too old to see the keyboard or too young to read.

Nigel

Well, at least we have gone to 84 votes now !

So I see that most are too young to have played with Hornby clockwork in the 50s. Brother & I bought ours as soom as possible post the war. Had 2 attics on top floor where we could keep layouts.
My brother managed to find a boxed set of same vintage for me 2 years ago (what great value compared to modern prices), so sparked my interest. Then I discovered there were electric trains of same vintage and older.

My first, late 1930s, was a Hornby 0 gauge clockwork 0-4-0T  followed a year later by a somewhat incorrect Flying Scotsman (as a 4-4-2!!) 20V AC electric.

Some folk in the MR office say my modelling has improved since I turned eighty !

Maybe they need to go to Specsavers….

Allan

Just found this - oops.  Just turned 60 (ecch!).  I was remarking to my friend only today how so many of the old gang that contribute to MRJ must be in their 60s.

Youngsters aren't exactly flocking to the hobby.  Yet somehow the manufacturers seem to have a business case and more are joining in too (Oxford and DJ Models).  Wonder how long it will last.

John

Well, just to get the number up, I voted!
I'm now 51 but have been in this hobby since I was about 7 y.o. Blimey! All that time and my best layout was a plywood central!
John.

PS It's really good to see some members are over 80, any takers for over 90?

Can I vote again please ?
I'm feeling much younger today :doublethumb

Hovering on 99 votes, will we reach the ton?

Must have jogged somebody's memory, it's now on the 100.

I am now 66 but feel about 100 years older

Hello,
72 and feeling it, still have not got a railway to play with.
GreenBR

This thread is seven years old and the poll results have got lost in the move to the new software.

Sadly, we  appear to have lost a lot of members since this thread was started and more since the unfortunate forum move, due to the old software becoming unsupportable.

To those that still look in and sometimes post I'm sure our founder, the late Bob Heath, would have been pleased to know that some members are still trying to keep his forum going.

Forum home - Your Model Railway


Ed


PS: 70 next month.
 

I,m 7 years older than when the thread was started.
    

Ed said

This thread is seven years old and the poll results have got lost in the move to the new software.

Sadly, we  appear to have lost a lot of members since this thread was started and more since the unfortunate forum move, due to the old software becoming unsupportable.

To those that still look in and sometimes post I'm sure our founder, the late Bob Heath, would have been pleased to know that some members are still trying to keep his forum going.

Forum home - Your Model Railway


Ed


PS: 70 next month.
 

From “Post #288,842”, 24th October 2023, 9:45 AM

Couldn't agree more Ed.

Whilst we're now unfortunately a mere shadow of our former selves,  at least we're still here.  I think there are only two or three of the "original" ancient members left - myself and Sol immediately spring to mind as being maybe numbered under 10 in Bob Heath's membership list.  

Call me an old fogie but many things have changed since those early days but I've yet to see anything positive from those changes …………………

Unfortunately as someone once said, change has been thrust upon us, Peter.

Just got to make the best of what we've still got  


 



Ed