{"id":75311,"date":"2025-12-05T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/?p=75311"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:46:02","slug":"this-is-proof-that-the-hobby-is-not-dying-peter-waterman-and-jools-holland-at-grand-opening-of-model-train-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/this-is-proof-that-the-hobby-is-not-dying-peter-waterman-and-jools-holland-at-grand-opening-of-model-train-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"“This is proof that the hobby is not dying”: Peter Waterman and Jools Holland at grand opening of model train shop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hundreds of people queued in the rain on Saturday for the grand opening of Rails of Sheffield<\/a>, a model train shop, to be one of the first in the new store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 10am, music industry legend and president of the Railway Benefit Fund<\/a>, Peter Waterman OBE, cut the ribbon to officially launch the store at Sheffield Railway Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the store he said: “It’s fantastic! Good job it’s not near my station, I would never get on a train, I would be in here all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think railways are a very strange thing, you either love them or hate them, and I think the hobby goes through fads, it is very strong at the moment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second of Rail of Sheffield’s stores to open, with their first on Chesterfield Road having been serving customers for 55 years and holding the largest stock of model railway products in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to Jools Holland, railway enthusiast and frequent shopper at Rails of Sheffield’s, opinions of the store below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n