The late Barry Campbell Lane grew up in Bradford (with family in Manchester, Huddersfield, Meltham and Blackpool) and so the old L&YR area (and it's trains) were familiar to him from an early age. His career included advertising, printing, retail promotion, and magazine publishing, journalism and book design. He is perhaps best known in the railway modelling world for his Editorship with David Jenkinson of 'Modellers Back Track' 

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Barry's hobbies included Bluegrass music, photography and modelling. His first locomotive model was a 3mm scale L&YR 0-6-0 Saddletank built in 1958. Through his modelling Barry joined the (then) embryo L&YR Society in the late 1950's.

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His 'Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives' (Published 2010 by Pendragon Press) is the definitive work for L&YR modellers and well illustrated Barry's deep understanding of the scratch builders needs.

 

Barry was a Member (No 188) of the Gauge '3' Society for twenty years and in that time he produced some stunning locomotive and carriage models. He wrote a number of articles about both his models and modelling methods which appeared in the Society's Newsletter.

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One of Barry's Newsletter articles - "Why Gauge 3?" (from June 2008) can be down loaded as a PDF document.

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