The popular image of model railway enthusiasts may be granddads and grandsons building a layout in the loft. But one of the country’s most popular train shops is run by two sisters, Anne Martin and He

Ben Ando is the founder of Revolution Trains and a regular contributor to Model Rail .

All of the layouts featured in Model Rail ...

Northern engineering endeavour, tinged with 1980s teenage memories, inspired Alistair Stripp to model a Scottish Highland railway, ‘Beachdale’.

Having sat patiently on a shelf for a few years, the time has come for this Andrew Barclay 040ST to shine, as Chris Nevard portrays an oily, dusty and careworn industrial workhorse.

GH ’s Simon Swift takes up a familial hobby — and with it a familiar habit of not finishing what he started…