After two decades of tireless work, a train enthusiast has finally realised his dream of creating a huge model railway of Epsom.

His 60ft layout of the town’s two train stations in 1929 won the top prize at its first public showing at a model railway exhibition last month.

Bob Cummings, 70, who lived in Epsom for thirty years before moving to the South Coast, used a large lorry to transport his model to the Scalefour exhibition in Stoke Mandeville.

Mr Cummings, a former member of the Epsom and Ewell Model Railway Club, said: "I'm absolutely over the moon. It’s 20 years of work. It was the first showing and it got first prize.

"I'm absolutely delighted."

The layout includes Epsom station, which still exists but looks very different today, and a former station in Upper High Street, previously named Station Road.

Two rival train companies used to run the stations and their separate railway lines went to different parts of London.

The model captures a snapshot in time when the lines were connected at today’s station, but the other station had not yet closed down.

Mr Cummings said: "I have always loved trains since I was eight years old.

"The history was also very absorbing. The two companies did not like each other at all.

"Because I have dabbled in model railways, I decided I would like to make the railway line between the stations."

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Many of the buildings on the model near the railway line, including several cinemas and two of Sainsbury’s earliest shops, are still recognisable today.

Ewell resident Brian Angus, who attended the exhibition in Stoke Mandeville, said he first heard about Mr Cummings' grand plan a decade ago.

He said: "It was quite moving to see these buildings I remember from when I was young and walked past them every day.

"It was something to see this very ambitious dream realised."

Mr Cummings said he hopes to bring his layout to Epsom and Ewell Model Railway Club’s show at Nescot College in 2016.

For more pictures visit www.scalefour.org/layouts/exhibepsom.htm