List of model railways

The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud.

[1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive.

It automatically generated signalbox bell codes, in much the way that Denny's son Crispin had previously done, when operating the railway.

[27] Its current owner, Tony Gee, continues to write about it for the model railway press.

[25][28] Pendon began slowly in the 1930s and 1940s as a museum-grade attempt to record the changing scenery of rural Wiltshire by modelling.

[44] The Aire Valley formed a series of articles in Railway Modeller through the early 1970s.

This relied on a reliable coupling that could be disengaged easily, either by hand or with ten remote uncouplers placed at defined locations on the layout.

Non-identical derivatives of the original Timesaver have been described as 'Tymesavers' and catalogued by layout galleries such as Carl Arendt's.

[100] It is currently owned by Waterloo County Heritage Preservation Inc. With over two kilometers of track and 45 trains there is much to check out.