Thank you all for your kind thoughts, today has brought back a lot of distant memories. Stories of him and his brothers with there apparently large pre- war Hornby and Bassett Lowke railway, and my own first toy train set over 60 years ago. He greatly encouraged my interest in railways both model and full size, I will remember most fondly his broad smile when I gave him a footplate ride on our Std tank, yes I will miss him.
Thanks all.
Martin