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This is a list of model railways. The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. [1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever ...
The founding president was the influential railway official and historian, George Dow. [4] One of its early members, and for some time its Vice-President, was the railway writer and artist C. Hamilton Ellis, whose 1962 book Model Railways 1838–1939 was said by The Times to have "led the way in charting the early history of this ... hobby". [5]
The latter is in association with The Model Railway Club [15] which is the oldest model railway society in the world, having been formed in 1910, [16] demonstrating BRM's place within the hobby. BRM's first show was The Festival Of Railway Modelling at Doncaster Racecourse in 1997. [ 17 ]
The oldest society is 'The Model Railway Club' [5] (established 1910), near Kings Cross, London, UK. As well as building model railways, it has 5,000 books and periodicals. Similarly, 'The Historical Model Railway Society' [6] at Butterley, near Ripley, Derbyshire specialises in historical matters and has archives available to members and non ...
West Wiltshire Society of Model Engineers Mixed gauges: 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm) 5 in (127 mm) UK Westbury, Wiltshire: Primarily a Model Engineering society with regular open days for the public. Kapiti Miniature Railway and Model Engineering Society Inc Mixed gauges: 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (64 mm) 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm) 5 in (127 mm) 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 ...
Modelling British railway prototypes is a hobby where railway modelling is applied to British prototypes. For historical reasons, British model scales have developed somewhat separately from those in other countries, and the commercial standards; 00 gauge and British N gauge are unique to British prototypes.
English: Map showing British and Irish railway as of 2023. Black indicates current railway; Green indicates historical and former railway, including razed, dismantled, abandoned, disused; Red indicates subway, light rail, and tram; Purple indicates monorail, narrow gauge, and funicular; All data from OpenStreetMap
See 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (419 mm) gauge ridable miniature railway: England: Berkhamsted Gasworks Railway [18] 432 mm 17 in: England Long Rake Spar mine, underground mine railway [19] 450 mm 17 + 23 ⁄ 32 in: Czech Republic: Industrial railways [20] England Littlethorpe Potteries, hand-worked line connecting clay pits to pottery [21] 457 mm 18 in ...