The spring of 2020 was, in my household as in so very many others, a strange time. The first lockdown coupled with the presence of a six-month-old baby – our first son – rather turned our world upside down. During this time, the garden received a great deal of attention. So too did the television. In the wee hours of the morning, my wife and I, along with our circadian rhythm-defying son, would find ourselves trawling the darkest, dustiest corners of the various streaming platforms at our disposal. And as can occasionally occur when you dig deep enough, we struck gold. The Great Model Railway Challenge, if you missed it, is a reality-style talent competition centred around, you guessed it, model railways. Think Bake Off, but train sets rather than…
