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  2. List of model railways - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Bekonscot - Wikipedia

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    Bekonscot Model Village and Railway was created as a private miniature park in the 1920s by Roland Callingham and his gardener W. A. Berry. [1]: 661 [2] [3] Callingham's wife had told him to take his model railway hobby outside their house, so he purchased four acres of land in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and built an ideal English village with a church, railway and high street, illuminated ...

  4. Rail transport modelling - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Saltwood Miniature Railway - Wikipedia

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    Saltwood Miniature Railway was a 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) gauge miniature railway which first opened in Sheffield, but subsequently relocated to Saltwood in Kent, England. It closed in 1987. At one point, the Saltwood Miniature Railway was the oldest extant miniature railway in the world. [1]

  6. Railway of the Prince Imperial - Wikipedia

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    The photograph of the railway of the Prince Imperial is the oldest known photograph of a model railroad [2] and shows that the clockwork-driven tender engine had six wheels and pulled two three-axle flat wagons. The station building stood on a straight by-pass, [3] connected by two sets of points to the figure-of-eight loop.

  7. S scale - Wikipedia

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    S scale is one of the oldest model railroading scales. The earliest known 1:64 scale train was constructed from card stock in 1896. [4] The first working models appeared in England in the early 20th century. [4] Modeling in S scale increased in the 1930s and 1940s when CD Models marketed 3 ⁄ 16-inch model trains.

  8. Category:Model railroad manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    This is a category for companies who have made products related to model railroading or railway modelling. See also Category:Toy train manufacturers. Subcategories.

  9. British Railway Modelling - Wikipedia

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    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]

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