CNET

Aboard the world's largest model train collection

HAMBURG, Germany--Sure, Miniatur Wunderland is the world's largest collection of model trains, but to describe it that way would do it a serious injustice. What it really is is a beyond-belief ...
Daily Mail

Railway enthusiast's model train collection made up of more than 300 pieces he'd collected over his lifetime sells for £100,000 after he died

A railway set made up of more than 300 models collected by an enthusiast throughout his life has fetched £100,000 at auction. Nigel Thornley, a railway lover who lived in Chester and died earlier this ...
The Yorkshire Post

Life-time collection of model trains from rail fanatic who worked on Yorkshire locomotives as a youngster fetches £100,000 at auction

A huge model railway set which was collected by a train enthusiast throughout his life has fetched £100,000 at auction. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Rare model train collection donated to Queensland museum after being kept in secret

A secret collection of model trains that needed its own house in southern New South Wales and came with a staff bound by confidentiality agreements is being documented at the Workshops Rail Museum, ...
Shropshire Star

Major collection of scale model locomotives to be auctioned in aid of Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway

An auction selling an impressive model railway collection is hoping it will help the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway get back on track. Did you know with a Plus subscription to Shropshire Star ...
SanLuisObispo

SLO resident sets Guinness world record for miniature train collection

San Luis Obispo obstetrician Bernd Schumacher has a one-track mind when it comes to trains. He recently was named the new Guinness World Records holder for the largest collection of model trains with ...
Reading Eagle

Heritage club maintains expansive collection of working model trains

At The Heritage of Green Hills in Cumru Township, Berks County, there’s a special room where hundreds of little people cheer on the racers at the Reading Fairgrounds, tiny sightseers visit the Reading ...
Leicester Mercury

Rare model trains from world’s finest maker Stan Beeson to go under the hammer at auction

A rare collection of model locomotives made by a man widely regarded as the finest railway model maker of the 20th century is set to go under the hammer at auction. James Stanley Beeson was known as ...
BBC

Scarborough: Hundreds of model trains go under the hammer

A Yorkshireman's collection of 300 model trains has gone under the hammer, after never running on a track. Andrew Carmichael spent 50 years amassing the vast collection of locomotives but was "only ...
The Daily Telegraph

Pete Waterman sells model train collection for £600k

Pop producer Pete Waterman is the world's leading collector and patron of modellers, but has decided to auction off his 50-collection Pete Waterman with a 7 1/4 inch gauge model of the Great Western ...
BBC

Scarborough: Hundreds of model trains go under the hammer

Andrew Carmichael spent 50 years amassing the vast collection of locomotives but was "only interested in building them". After his death nine years ago, his wife Evelyn said the models had been left ...