Also a typo. Thank you. My track record hitting the “6” key when writing this wasn’t the best.

Yes, that was a typo. Thank you.

Am I in the future, or is this perhaps a typo?

The model shop in my own hometown, which sold model train sets and accessories along with a wide range of cars, ships, aircraft and military models, closed just a couple of years ago. Even though I haven’t really been into the hobby since childhood, I miss browsing its shelves and taking my kids there – it was a wonderful Aladdin’s cave, although I failed to interest my children in model trains and ships for very long (they prefer Minecraft and Roblox).

There’s also an annual model railway exhibition in my city and it looks like this year’s might be the last. The hobby is literally dying out. It was actually past its heyday even when I was young, as 80s kids like me started playing with home computers and plastic action figures. But I still remember the young me briefly coveting Hornby’s model of the APT, British Rail’s short-lived hi-tech tilting train from the early 80s, which tilted around corners just like the real thing. Magical stuff.