Watch the full restoration of a 1954 Hornby model train locomotive. This rusted beauty had a completely seized clockwork mechanism, but with WD40 and electrolysis baths, it was brought back to ...

An ‘astonishing’ model railway layout built up over 50 years by an avid collector is to be auctioned this month – three years after his death.

Robert Hampton, 41, felt like he now owned his own ‘massive’ Hornby locomotive after agreeing to take charge of the three-coach Merseyrail train in September.