One of the most important pieces of news in the UK this week was the announcement that a major Model Railway exhibition that had run for decades had been cancelled due to the lack of young blood entering the model railway hobby. Now, with the demographics looking increasingly bleak, the show was deemed beyond the point of salvage. This is not just sad news, but also a surprisingly apt analogy for the state of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), or ‘The Company’ as it is sometimes called by its members, The Thin Pinstriped Line reports.
