I am not alone in all this. Last year, model-railway manufacturer Hornby surveyed the motivations of hobbyists across the UK.

A new model railway is to be installed in Inverness' historic Victorian Market. For many years a scale-model locomotive and carriages travelled in a big loop along a track in the rafters of the ...

The Billingham Railway Modellers Club are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel as they prepare to move to a new home and ...

It is a step he says which brings him closer to his dream of working on mainland trains across the UK. "I've always loved trains, I have just loved anything that can move, any kind of machinery, ...