The former site of Hatton’s Model Railways in Allerton could become a late night bar and restaurant. An application for a premises licence for the building, on Smithdown Road, has been submitted ...

The former site of Hatton’s Model Railways in Allerton could become a late night bar and restaurant. An application for a premises licence for the building, on Smithdown Road, has been submitted ...

Club officials said the organisers and volunteers who had run the show were simply getting too old for the job. At the same time, Hatton’s Model Railways shop in Liverpool, which has been open ...

The shop, set up by Norman Hatton after he was demobbed from the Army at the end of the Second World War, went on to become one of the country’s preeminent modelling outlets, expanding into mail order ...

Pop producer and rail enthusiast Pete Waterman has rejected claims model railways are dying out. His comments came after the cancellation of the UK's biggest model train show and the closure of ...

Cheshire-based Hattons Model Railways, one of UK’s biggest online retailers for the hobby, also announced it will shut down. There have been claims that young people are being priced out of model ...

A group of model railway enthusiasts in Lincolnshire say their club is thriving despite a national decline in people taking up the hobby.