A hobbyist built a replica of the GWR King Class steam train - and it could sell for up to £20,000.<br /><br />Vic Whittaker, 79, spent two years and 2,000 hours building an exact replica of the Great Western Railway 6000 Class locomotive.<br /><br />The 150kg train, which is made out of brass, iron and copper, is kept in his workshop.<br /><br />Once a week, the train is available for visitors to ride at Worden Park in Leyland, Lancashire.<br /><br />Vic spent around £5,000 on the materials and used brass and cast-iron for the chassis and copper for the boiler. <br /><br />The boiler even runs on coal, just like a real steam-train.<br /><br />The Leyland Society of Model Engineers, a hobbyist club of which Vic is a member, is licensed to operate their trains in Worden Park and passengers can donate for the society to buy coal.<br /><br />Footage shows the train's maiden voyage on March 19. <br /><br />If Vic wanted to part with it, the miniature train could sell up for the tidy sum of £20,000.<br /><br />John Barr, chairman of the Leyland Society of Model Engineers, said: "These trains usually sell for about £15,000 to £20,000, and Vic's is on the nicer end.<br /><br />"There's an auction house called Druitt's and I recall a bigger one of these selling for a quarter of a million pounds."<br /><br />Vic, a retired electrical engineer, has been building miniature trains since 2004.<br /><br />Vic has two other smaller engines that he built previously and keeps all his trains at home. <br /><br />Vic, who is from Leyland, Lancashire, said: "I could sell it for about £20,000, but I don't want this to be business. I would never sell the train."<br /><br />The train required an astounding amount of detail as the pieces would have to be accurate to about one-tenth of a millimetre to function correctly.<br /><br />Vic added: "I spend quite a lot of hours a day building. If it's raining, I spend a long time on it. If it isn't it will be a few less.<br /><br />"I've always been an engineer. I've always associated myself with large scale engineering and I suppose I wanted to build something that actually works.
