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James builds the world’s greatest train set. Ten miles of track are laid along a meandering disused railway line to re-connect two coastal communities. For one weekend, the villagers get their railway back (it’s just a bit smaller than it used to be).

James and his helpers lay nearly three miles of Scalextric track along the original route of the famous Brooklands race circuit. The track cuts right through buildings, across a river and several roads and into the record books.

One hundred thousand pieces of Meccano are painstakingly assembled to make a bridge twenty two meters long; big enough to span a Liverpool canal. But one wrong move and all that work, and James, could go for an unexpected swim…

James and the team cultivate the world’s first Plasticine garden. And then enter it in the Chelsea Flower Show and wins a prize.