TRAIN enthusiasts made tracks to ModRail’s 50th anniversary model railway exhibition in West Swindon.

The event, at Greendown Community School in Grange Park, saw model makers, railway clubs, painters and repair specialists pack the school’s gym for the event.

Little Christopher Simpson has started his fascination with trains at the tender age of four.

“He just loves trains,” said dad David Simpson, from Redhouse, North Swindon.

“He can’t get enough of them, but then it runs in the family.

“We have all had train sets and now I work on the London Underground, so I am dealing with the real thing day in and day out.”

Swindon Model Railway Club was founded in 1953 and is made up of dedicated modellers and has three exhibition layouts.

Exhibitor Peter Woolnough, 70, travelled from South Wales and has been involved in the hobby since he was a child.

He said: “It all started with a clockwork Hornby trainset my dad made me. He made the tracks and it would go from the living room out into the back garden and down to the bottom of the garden.

“My mum used to jump over it as she did the housework.”