Date: 26/03/2014

A MODEL railway at the National Railway Museum in York has won a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest complete working model railway. The model was built in 1912 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to be used at a signalling school at Victoria Station in Manchester. Trainee signallers used the equipment to signal the movement of trains around the layout and learn the rules and regulations. In 1995, redevelopment forced the signal school to close but, thanks to the efforts of a group of museum volunteers, it was recovered and brought to the NRM.

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World's oldest working model railway at NRM to enter Guinness Book of Records

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A MODEL railway at the National Railway Museum in York has won a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest complete working model