Andreas Discher News Today

EXPERT model maker John Herdman has built a moving, scale model of Tyne and Wear Metro’s new trains and hopes to see it displayed in a museum. The project was a labour of love for the 70-year-old, who spent three months assembling the 2.5m replica in Meccano – the iconic construction kit that has inspired model makers across the world for more than a hundred years. It was constructed using scores of individual pieces of standard Meccano parts. It runs on its own track and can be contr...