Last Monday was a tidy up day for me at Peco Towers and I was on book review duty. I pondered out loud as to where all these books end up; and believe me they do mount up remarkably quickly. 'Come with me' said young Craig and led me down gas-lit corridors and damp stairwells, beating through the cobwebs, to a dark place that is uninhabited by humans, deep in the bowels of the East Devon geology.
There, all correctly filed, were 40+ years of review books in countless alleyways of shelves creaking with the weight of information and paper. If an article on a line or locomotive is planned, the required info will be here, not to mention the cross-referencing ability required for positive dating. It's simply the best bookshop you could ever walk into... except you can't.
The nearest bookshop like that is Blackwells in Oxford. Go into the small shop, right to the back, and downstairs into a vast basement bigger than the footprint of the shop. Of course the Bodlian library bookstack runs under half of Oxford, but like Peco isn't open to the public although I once got to go down there. Neither though would be as interesting for railway modelling purposes.
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