Anybody who has watched plenty of science fiction television or films will be familiar with the laws of causality. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, the premise is that a single decision in the past creates an entirely new timeline and one cannot simply go back in time and change an event expecting everything to be the same in the present. We often think about this in our own lives with the expression ‘I wonder what life would have been like if I hadn’t…’ Fortunately, model railways allow us to play out these hypothetical scenarios without inadvertently changing the course of human events. Russ Pigott has done just that with his enormous room-filler ‘Cley-on-Sea’. You can read more about how he built it in a future issue of Model Rail.
Photography: Chris Nevard