A lack of young people owning model trains has been blamed for the closure of a popular exhibition and a major retailer. Organisers of the annual Warley National Model Railway Exhibition at Birmingham ...
"When I snuff? The layout will be sold, then someone will buy the house and find an interesting backdrop in the shed," says Murray Campbell. Braden Fastier / Not-For-Syndication The trains winding ...
Jools Holland has revealed his rather original way of unwinding: working on a 100ft model railway in his attic that took 10 years to build and includes replicas of the Channel Tunnel and the ...
The first mass market railway sets where made by Marklin in Germany in 1891 but it was a group of English hobbyists who in 1904 began model building. The first electric models where introduced just ...
Diesel engines began to replace steam enginese in the 1960s A railway line aims to recreate sights and sounds of the 1960s using more than just trains this weekend. Organisers at Llangollen Railway ...
Rod Stewart’s models have tended to be of one type - blonde, leggy and on his arm. But the one he has kept hidden for many years was revealed yesterday, and it was steamier than anyone might have ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The name C.J. Freezer is to model railway enthusiasts what P.D. James is to lovers of crime novels. Freezer, ...
A man who has painstakingly recreated a lost railway line says he has been surprised by the positive reaction on social media. Keith Pell spent 1,500 hours rebuilding a model version of part of the ...