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Model Trains - Hobby of the Stars
Can you guess what Steven Spielberg, Neil Young, Pete Waterman and James May have in common? They are all keen model train enthusiasts.
Well know music producer Pete Waterman has a huge system housed in 200 foot barn, reputed to be worth at least half a million pounds. He even owns his own model train business. And there are many wealthy model train enthusiasts with a similar obsession. Neil Yound and Steven Spielberg have their own, respected model train company called Lionel trains.
And this group of well known personalities are not alone in their enthusiasm for model trains. Building and operating model railways is no longer the preserve of young boys. Their dads and their uncles are more likely to be Hornby train enthusiasts with their own model train sets.
Collecting vintage model trains has become enormously popular. Obsessive model train collectors are not interested in playing with the model trains and they only want pristine vintage models, still in their boxes having never been played with. As Mr May says, these models were meant to be played with and not kepe in their boxes.
At a model train auction Mr won a completely unused Hornby train set for £200 which other collectors would have kept, unused, in its box. Mr May built and played with the train set in his James May's Top Toys television programme as he says this is what was intended when the system was made.
In the December 20th edition of the current series of James May's Toy Stories he and around 400 valiant volunteers rebuild the long lost rail link between Bideford and Barnstaple in Devon using OO gauge model train track. Although the model rail link suffered when some vandals stole some of the track for a short time Bideford was once again linked to Barnstaple by rail. Unfortunately the little model trains were obviously not big enough to carry any passengers but a lot of people enjoyed building the rail link.
You could win one of two fantastic Hornby Train Sets in the current Christmas Hornby Competition from modelzone.co.uk. Just answer one simple question and you're in with a chance.
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