Eddie Izzard returns to home town to launch museum’s model railway

[John Ashworth]

Izzard returns to home town to launch museum’s model railway

Comedian Eddie Izzard swapped the big stage for tiny trains as he returned to his home town.

He joined Second World War re-enactment enthusiasts at Bexhill Museum in East Sussex on Monday for the opening of a new exhibit.

Izzard, the museum’s patron, already had his childhood model railway at the museum, but wanted another one set at Christmas 1940, as his father John had told him how deep the snow was that winter in Bexhill...