If you were a British kid at any time from the 1950s to the 1980s, the chances are that your toy shop had a train set in it. Not just any train set, but a full model railway layout in a glass case ...

Nobody looks bored at a model train show. Some people stare intently at crisscrossing objects in motion. Others build or fix things with the analytical skills of an engineer. Still others explain the ...

Three years ago Cliff Parsons was sitting in a pub with Roger Daltrey, one of his model-railway-obsessed mates. Daltrey – better known in some circles as frontman with a rock’n’roll outfit called The ...