Model Trains – Hobby of the Stars

James May's Top Toys

Can you guess what Steven Spielberg, Neil Young, Pete Waterman and James May have in common? They are all keen on their model trains.

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 this isn’t unusual amongst wealth model train enthusiasts. Steven Spielberg and Neil Young have their own model train company called Lionel trains.

And this little group of well known personalities are not alone in their obsessive enthusiasm for model trains. Building and operating model railways is no longer the preserve of young boys. These days their dads and uncles, along with some old time rock musicians, who are more likely to be Hornby train enthusiasts.

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 correctly says in his TV programme, this is not what these model trains were meant for.

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. James May is not an obsessive collector, prefering to play with these vintage models than to look at them in their boxes.

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 some of the track was stolen by vandals Bideford and Barnstaple was once again linked by rail, allbeit for a short time. Unfortunately the model trains weren’t big enough to take any passengers or goods, but nevertheless a lot of people had a lot of fun with model trains.

You could win one of two fantastic Hornby Train Sets in the current Christmas Hornby Competition from modelzone.co.uk. All you have to do is answer one simple question and you could win a fantastic Hornby train set.

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