While sales of its Hornby modelrailway sets were broadly similar to the previous year, its new Brighton Belle five car set and Flying Scotsman locomotive had seen "notable success" it said.
Such later capitalists as George Pullman, the railway tycoon, also claimed pious intent when they established model towns that prohibited alcohol and prostitution and imposed a curfew.
Paper-folding enthusiasts gathered at the National Railway Museum in York to create a train of 1, 550 wagons, headed by a paper model of Stephenson's Rocket.