Mervyn Charles Smith QSM (11 March 1933 – 24 September 2018) was a New Zealand radio broadcaster and railway aficionado.
[4] Smith was also a regular voice artist, narrating nearly 200 books for the blind, and featuring on commercials on both radio and television.
Smith had previously written of his interest in model railways in his 1977 book Little Trains of Thought (Whitcoulls Publishers, Christchurch; co-written with Ches Livingstone), which detailed his creation of a model HOn30-scale layout based on a fictional New Zealand West Coast narrow-gauge line.
[5] Smith also built the "North Island Main Trunk" layout in Sn3.5 scale at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland.
[6] Smith was admitted to Auckland Hospital on 21 September 2018, and died there three days later.