The model rail club set about recreating Alloa Station as it would have looked 60 years ago The passenger train pulls away from the station, picking up speed as it passes a busy bowling green and ...

Hornby, the British manufacturer of iconic model railway sets, has flagged a dip in sales after deliveries were delayed by Red Sea ship attacks. The firm said group sales for the fourth quarter ...

Pop producer and rail enthusiast Pete Waterman has rejected claims model railways are dying out. His comments came after the cancellation of the UK's biggest model train show and the closure of ...

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 ...

The earlier entries often concern the British network’s elemental features ... made for the enormous North London layout of the Model Railway Club (the oldest in the world).

Hornby is introducing a new entry-level train set featuring the LNER Azuma model, replacing its iconic InterCity 125 set.

Some model trains will also join in the fun, and you’re welcome to stand by the tracks and blow a human-sized whistle, or even a party popper or bell, if that’s all you can get your hands on.