On December 25 1942 a two-year-old boy named Christopher received a model steam locomotive for Christmas. Handmade by his father, the Rev Wilbert Awdry, the blue-painted train incorporated a sawn-off ...
Three rare model locomotives have sold for thousands at auction. The Fine Scale O Gauge models, made by James Stanley Beeson, went for £25,000 - nearly four times the total estimate. A LNWR Ramsbottom ...