The late Jack Salem was a steam train enthusiast and over a 40-year period commissioned prominent locomotive builders to make the model engines for him.

The locos were exact working replicas of real engines from the "golden age of steam" and many were built using the original drawings for the bigger versions. After he sold the linen mill that he owned in Lancashire, Mr Salem retired to Switzerland where he had a half-a-mile long track, complete with stations, tunnels and viaducts, built in his garden.

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