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List of model railways
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This is a list of model railways.
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The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud.[1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive."[2]