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  2. 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 ...

  3. Märklin - Wikipedia

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    A simple Märklin model. A coffee-table Märklin layout in Z scale (1:220). The locomotive is about 50 mm long. Märklin model steam engine in function. Märklin was founded by Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Märklin [ de ] in 1859. [ 1 ] After his death in 1866, early in the company's life, his wife Caroline Märklin lead the business until 1888.

  4. Puffing Billy (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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    Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, [1][2] constructed in 1813–1814 by colliery viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom. It was employed to haul coal chaldron wagons ...

  5. Fairy Queen (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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    The train occasionally runs between New Delhi and Alwar. [2] In 1998 it was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest steam locomotive in regular service. The Fairy Queen runs on the same route as the Palace on Wheels, the tourist train launched in 1982, and was awarded the National Tourism Award in 1999.

  6. 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 ever ...

  7. Rail transport modelling scales - Wikipedia

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    The UK-based S Scale Model Railway Society is the oldest scale support society in the world, being first established in 1946. In the United States, S scale has a small but growing following in the modelling of standard-gauge railroads, especially those of the 1940s and 1950s era, a focus that is supported by S Helper Service [ 5 ] and American ...

  8. Third rail (model rail) - Wikipedia

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    Third rail (model rail) Early O gauge track pieces. All metal, with a small fibre insulating washer beneath each central rail chair. The use of a third rail in rail transport modelling is a technique that was once applied, in order to facilitate easier wiring. [1]

  9. John Bull (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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    John Bull is a historic British-built railroad steam locomotive that operated in the United States. It was operated for the first time on September 15, 1831, and became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution ran it under its own steam in 1981. [3][4] Built by Robert Stephenson and Company, it was ...

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