The creation of Hodges' model: "All aboard!" 200 years

28th May 1997

When I interviewed (Mr.) Brian Hodges in Manchester on 28th May 1997, I learned he had created the model in 1983, mainly while commuting to Manchester Polytechnical College by train from (Totley) Sheffield, and back. 

I wish I could have been sat by him, to strike up a conversation. Although (among other points) I'm not sure how much he relied upon, or was chasing down the visual side of the model, with some skethces and drawings. So would I have noticed him thinking, drawing, crossing-out, and labelling? This I would have noticed, not that I have a habit of 'spying' and being nosey. Although nowadays, with the repeated announcements on the trains: ‘See it. Say it. Sorted’; perhaps I should?

In 1983 I was a general student nurse (SRN), and still over a decade away from becoming a community psychiatric nurse in 1985, and being (well) taught by Brian and colleagues in 1987.

I also enjoy a (reliable!) train journey, and used to read a lot travelling from the NW England through the London underground (Euston-Waterloo) to Plymoth, and later to Portsmouth in the 1970s. Happy days, then and today; with the railways reasserting their relevance. A quality shared with a certain little-big model I know.

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