Ian Jones has spent 11 years turning his his backyard into a miniature railway, complete with tunnels, bridges and over 300 ...

The smiling engineer, with a coal car behind him filled to the brim, makes sure his train chugs along the track, spouting smoke as it weaves through the tunnels and in and out of stately conifers.

There’s something magical about a train, whether you call it a railway or a railroad, plenty of us have hankered after our own little piece of line on which to shunt wagons or chuff around our domain.