page_title: Rail transport modelling
section_title: Magazines
hierarchical_section_title: Rail transport modelling / Magazines
caption_attribution_description: A model railway based on a fictional location in the United States.
context_page_description: Railway modelling or model railroading is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.
  The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, tracks, signalling and landscapes including: countryside, roads, bridges, buildings, vehicles, urban landscape, model figures, lights, and features such as rivers, hills, tunnels, and canyons.
  The earliest model railways were the 'carpet railways' in the 1840s. Electric trains appeared around the start of the 20th century, but these were crude likenesses. Model trains today are more realistic, in addition to being much more technologically advanced. Today modellers create model railway layouts, often recreating real locations and periods throughout history. The world's oldest working model railway is a model designed to train signalmen on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. It is located in the National Railway Museum, York, England and dates back to 1912. It remained in use until 1995. The model was built as a training exercise by apprentices of the company's Horwich works and supplied with rolling stock by Bassett-Lowke.
caption: A model railway based on a fictional location in the United States.
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