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Simon George spent 6 months building a 200-foot-long model train set before his new girlfriend discovered it
Man hides Britain's largest model train set from girlfriend
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Britain’s biggest model railway is set to go on display: Man, 53, spends £250K over six years to painstakingly recreate train junction in Yorkshire from 1983 that was his favourite childhood spot
Simon George, 52, (pictured) has created what is said to be Britain’s biggest model railway by recreating the Heaton Lodge Junction in West Yorkshire
It was, he says, his favourite place, and — despite growing up to run a successful supercar driving experience company and own a Lamborghini himself — the happy memories of those innocent days, and the excitement he felt at seeing a train emerge from way down the tracks and waiting to see exactly which type it was, never left him.
Time flies by when you’re the driver of a train: Simon at the controls of his huge, 200ft masterpiece
More than seven years on, and after laying 2½ miles of O gauge track, taking pains to get houses, factories — and even individual trees and manhole covers in the roads — in the right place, installing 10,000 individual bracken ferns and other exact replica features of the landscape, his masterpiece is 199ft 8in long, 40ft wide
Man hides Britain's largest model train set from girlfriend
More details. (Even more at link.)
Britain’s biggest model railway is set to go on display: Man, 53, spends £250K over six years to painstakingly recreate train junction in Yorkshire from 1983 that was his favourite childhood spot
Simon George, 52, (pictured) has created what is said to be Britain’s biggest model railway by recreating the Heaton Lodge Junction in West Yorkshire
It was, he says, his favourite place, and — despite growing up to run a successful supercar driving experience company and own a Lamborghini himself — the happy memories of those innocent days, and the excitement he felt at seeing a train emerge from way down the tracks and waiting to see exactly which type it was, never left him.
Time flies by when you’re the driver of a train: Simon at the controls of his huge, 200ft masterpiece
More than seven years on, and after laying 2½ miles of O gauge track, taking pains to get houses, factories — and even individual trees and manhole covers in the roads — in the right place, installing 10,000 individual bracken ferns and other exact replica features of the landscape, his masterpiece is 199ft 8in long, 40ft wide