When I entered high school, my model trains were sleeping in the closet.During my junior high school years, I was obsessed ...

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 one of ...

Concerns were raised recently about an apparent lack of interest in model railways in the younger generations, leading to a lack of staffing at key enthusiast events. Article continues below ...

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 ...

Model railways have been around for a very long time, and enthusiasts will sometimes build huge layouts stretching across hundreds, even thousands of feet. If you don’t have the space or the money, ...

Hornby said it was "a real honour" to be celebrated on Royal Mail stamps Royal Mail is issuing a set of 12 stamps to celebrate Hornby Model Railways, which was first started by Liverpool toymaker ...

Rev Wilbert Awdry’s original Thomas the Tank Engine model railways are displayed together outside Tywyn for the first time at Barrow’s Furness exhibition.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I have this theory that toys we loved as kids have a way of imprinting themselves on some of us, certainly on ...

Arizona businessman Dennis Sirrine spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars transforming his backyard into one of ...

Rod Stewart has donated £10,000 to a model railway club whose exhibition was destroyed by vandals. We enthusiasts know how much the hobby can help mental health The singer and model railway enthusiast ...

A lack of young people interested in the hobby has been blamed for the closure of a popular exhibition and a major retailer. A lack of young people interested in model trains has been blamed for the ...