Article: Train set sales on track for big head of steam.(Features)

Byline: By Will Mapplebeck

Want a train set for Christmas? Will Mapplebeck looks at the history of the model railway on Tyneside and famous model train maker Hornby.

John Wright remembers the days when thousands of people used to come and see the model trains. It was the mid 1970s and up to 11,000 punters used to pack into Newcastle's Guildhall to look at the lovingly sculpted miniature locomotive worlds.

The show was put on by Newcastle and District Model Railway Society, a group of model nuts who formed ...

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