See brass steam trains in the Science Museum

There’s a dark room in the Science Museum that’s filled with brass and steel models of early steam engines and locomotives. As this temporary exhibition shows, early years of steam engine model making served three purposes — for fun, for testing, for selling something else.
Some makers were railway workers taking pride in building a perfect replica of their day job engine. Others were built to test a new engineering idea, but many were built simply to show off workmanship. They