1975: Meet the 'RAILWAY MANIACS' | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

[@geordieceltic2]

All these people are a breath of fresh air. Pure magic.

[@malcolmjawohowelll2892]

Devotion comes in many forms .....yes love and relationships and if you have a great hobby. .you get more out of life

[@marktubeie07]

05:48 An early form of _Beatboxing_ perhaps. Gosh I hope that the model train set up has survived from 1975, it's amazing.

[@rjjcms1]

I love that model railway,too. Wish I had something like it.

[@Domdeone1]

Steam & Base? Grt combo

[@AnandKumar-n8t7k]

Victor Martin was also interviewed by the late Dave Allen in the wonderful documentary "Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric".

[@stephenchappell7512]

Cheers for that as a Dave Allen fan I'll have to look for it 👍

[@scooped85]

Take me back to those days, it looks wonderful!

[@TheMusicalElitist]

OK boomer

[@MrSimonmcc]

Wonderful!

[@OlafProt]

Brilliant stuff. As a person who grew up as a devoted train fan, I can relate to this. I think growing up in Dorking Surrey, near London, meant there was a wealth of different trains to be interested in. And we didn’t have a car so it was all about buses or trains getting anywhere. I finally got over it in my late 30s and started to openly enjoy trains again 😂 but living in Belfast there isn’t a huge amount of heritage railways, and the trains, are all the same. From Derry to Newry. And there aren’t any railways west of Lough Neagh. That model set is dreamy.

[@Talisman09]

Hail the dork king of Dorking

[@SpiritmanProductions]

The hoomans found the mice's stash. ☹

[@petergivenbless900]

Told from the mice's point-of-view, this would make a great Aardman-style animated kids film; 'The Great Model Railway Heist'!

[@trevorastley1727]

These people are passionate and hardcore, the likes i have never seem. bless.

[@tonyhancock3912]

I thought the clergymen stole the show in the police academy films

[@rjjcms1]

Instead of making people duck for cover by imitating the sound of a cops v robbers shoot-out,he can make them take evasive action because they think a steam locomotive's coming.

[@MrNoUsername]

2:55

[@SharpDesign]

I don't control the railways or the flow of commerce.

[@RogierYou]

But then without the pollution, poverty, poor working conditions, etc etc

[@Friday0891]

? You're not saying there wasn't pollution poverty(poor) back then are you?