[Mike Ashworth]

The variations are mainly to do with colour and badging, which is relatively cheap to do.

30 years ago I had a model railway that ran around 3 sides of the spare bedroom, it was only 12″ (30cm) wide but had a total running length of 60ft (18.2M), and took up not much space.

My wife bought me a brand new BR 2MT at a cost of £30.00, the same one today would cost £240 which is a eight times the price (800%), yet both would have been manufactured in exactly the same way.

By way of a comparison an average car has only increased by 127%