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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 to make a model locomotive." [2]
A railway modelling club in Calais. The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) at MIT in the 1950s pioneered automatic control of track-switching by using telephone relays. 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.
Standardized in East German NORMAT model railway standard collection. Z0 was originally introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1938. 35 mm: 1:30: 35 mm (1.378 in) 35 mm was in use in the 1930s and 1940s by several model railway manufacturers in Japan. 35 mm was introduced in the 1930s. Late 1940s 35 mm was replaced by O gauge. No. 2: 1:27: 2 in (50.8 mm)
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Railway Modeller is a monthly British magazine about model railways now published by Peco Publications in Beer, Devon. It has been in publication since 1949 with Vol. 1 No. 1 published as The Railway Modeller, being an Ian Allan Production for October–November, 1949. It is still Britain's most popular model railway title.
Emerson Zooline Railroad's Chance Rides C.P. Huntington train in Saint Louis Zoo, one of hundreds of exact copies of this ride model in locations worldwide. A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or ...
Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review is a quarterly British magazine. Roy C Link started the magazine back in 1989. In 2012 it transferred to Greystar Publications with Roy remaining the production editor.
Model Railway News (1925-Aug 1971), thereafter Model Railways (Sep 1971-Sep 1984), thereafter Your Model Railway ISSN 0026-7368 (Oct 1984-Jun 1985), thereafter Your Model Railway ISSN 0267-7016 (Jul 1985-Jun 1987), thereafter back to Model Railways (Jul 1987-Feb 1994), ceased; Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review ISSN 0958-0808 ...