The model of Axminster Station was also built by Geoff and took him around 120 hours to finish. It’s a classic Victorian design, echoed by several others in the region, and has a large gabled roof ...

One of the stations will be named "Stride Halt", after Robert Stride, the entrepreneur who turned Severn Beach into a tourist resort in the 1930s, and who built the first railway there.

From the 1920s to the 1970s, Severn Beach was a thriving tourist hotspot, with an outdoor swimming pool, boating lake, and a miniature railway, which ran from 1936 to 1939, and 1955 to 1976.

Shillingstone Station is hosting an open day and model railway show. The event will take place on Saturday, April 5, from 10am until 4pm, at the North Dorset Railway site.

From the 1920s to the 1970s, Severn Beach was a thriving tourist hotspot, with an outdoor swimming pool, boating lake, and a miniature railway, which ran from 1936 to 1939, and 1955 to 1976.