Like a lot of chaps, I’ve always enjoyed railways, well the good ones, so when I decided that I needed another hobby, I plumped for model railways. Now remember here, I've never done railway modelling before, so I was and continue to learn largely by my mistakes. 

So came the subject matter… what to model.. well it was an easy decision of course. Over the years I've spent many joyful hours travelling on the excellent Swiss railway system with my wife, in particular the myriad of lines of the Jungfraubahnen. They now own and operate a number of once separate railway companies, including the BOB Berner Oberland Bahnen who run from Interlaken to the mountain villages of Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald, and from there the Wengen Alp Bahnen continuing to Kleine Schiedegg, the starting point of the Jungfraubahn itself, for the trip of a lifetime up to the magnificent Aletsch glacier and the highest railway station in Europe. Strange then that I decided not to model any of these!! (maybe another day!) Yes the planning began in earnest.... have you ever heard of a town called earnest?!