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The urge to create model trains can be traced back to the genesis of the real railway. George Dent examines how what was once a pastime of the affluent few became a mass-market hobby that endures to this day.

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♦ GAUGE ‘OO’ ♦ MODEL ...

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The model railway hobby may have some issues with the advancing age of modellers, but it’s not all gloom says CHRIS LEIGH .