In this episode we’ll visit enthusiasts at the Gainsborough Model Railway society, and meet an unlikely beauty queen who spends her days tackling spreadsheets at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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00:00Tickets please, ladies and gentlemen. The next train to leave Platform 3 is headed for the Gainsborough Model and Railway Society
00:06and this service will terminate at the 2024 winner of Miss Philippines Great Britain.
00:11All my friends are saying you'd never have guessed from the girl that we know going to her lectures
00:18to then at the weekend putting on a ball gown and nice long heels and putting her hair up in a nice updo.
00:26But this is pretty much on a condensed scale how it would have looked in the 50s and 60s.
00:32There's so many skills you can learn plus you get the social side of it as well.
00:35We've had youngsters come down here and been quite shy and by the time they get to 15, 16 they're quite confident.
00:41You have your confidence within you, you just needed that little push and now it's all out for everyone to see.
00:56you