A businessman who says he “wasn’t even into model railways” has assembled a mega miniature creation which has been named, unofficially, as Britain’s biggest...
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The train will shortly be arriving in 1983: a boyhood rebuilt in Britain’s biggest model railway
Six years, £250,000 and 5,000 brass leaves: how Simon George’s lockdown project took on a life of its own. As lockdown projects go, it doesn’t get much bigger than a 60-metre long model railway...
George kept his own project secret, he said, and for a long time did not even tell his girlfriend what he was up to. But he is keen to do his bit to dispel the idea that the hobby is only for nerds. “I just really want to play a very small part to improve the image of the hobby, which has suffered. It’s been a bit of a figure of fun the last few decades,” he said.
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Huge Calder Valley model railway hidden from girlfriend unveiled
A train fanatic has unveiled a huge model railway that he originally hid from his girlfriend after eight years of work. Simon George made a scale-model of 1.5 miles (2.4km) of the Calder Valley line at Heaton Lodge junction in Kirklees. At 200ft (61m) long, the creation has to be transported in three lorries. Mr George said the ultra realistic model depicts the railway near where he grew up, with him spending hours watching trains pass by his house. "It depicts the 1980s as it used to be with lots of coal trains before the miners' strikes," he said. "When we're children we have our own special places, but for me I used to come here as a child and spend so much time watching the freight trains go past"...