Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jools Holland, the musician and television presenter, is a model railway buff. However, organisers of a long-running model railway ...

Music mogul Pete Waterman is hoping to launch a new record this weekend, of the model railway variety. He is attempting the Guinness World Record for the largest portable model railway, which will be ...

16:59, Mon, Mar 11, 2024 Updated: 21:51, Mon, Mar 11, 2024 Concerns were raised recently about an apparent lack of interest in model railways in the younger generations, leading to a lack of staffing ...

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Manchester Model Railway Society, the third oldest model railway group in the world, is preparing to open its 84th public exhibition this December. The Manchester Model Railway Society’s annual ...

Remember your train set? You set it up every Christmas, around the tree, on a table or perhaps on a piece of plywood straddling sawhorses. The Lionel steam engine would pull a handful of freight cars ...

Royal Mail is issuing a set of 12 stamps to celebrate the world of Hornby Model Railways. Frank Hornby, the inventor of Meccano, produced his first clockwork Hornby Series trains in 1920, followed in ...

Get ready for the UK’s premier railway modelling exhibition! The National Festival of Railway Modelling 2025 returns to the NEC Birmingham, bringing together the very best in model railways, ...

Around 25 intricate model railways have been on display at a station on the Severn Valley Railway line. Visitors travelling the heritage line were able to see some of UK’s most popular layouts on ...

The son of a model railway enthusiast says the hobby "saved" his father from depression. When Robert Terrance Smith found himself lacking motivation and drive to continue with everyday life after ...

Families and model railway enthusiasts from across the region headed to the seventh annual Sleaford Model Railway Exhibition at the end of May. Nearly 400 people attended the major event arranged by ...

A model railway club is helping to provide a safe space for autistic young people to get involved in the hobby. The North Down Model Railway Society in Bangor, County Down, has been welcoming model ...