A train-obsessed businessman has spent a whopping 250,000 pounds (approx. US$330,000) and a staggering eight years to painstakingly build Britain’s biggest model railway. Simon George, 53, funded the 200-foot-long project by selling his share in a supercar driving experience company and created an incredible replica of a train line, set in 1980s Yorkshire, England. The colossal train set accurately depicts a 1.5-mile stretch of real track at Heaton Lodge Junction, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, from 1983. “It used to be with lots of coal trains before the miners’ strikes,” Simon said. The project was born of the nostalgic moment of his childhood when he used to watch the locomotives passing through the busy stretch of line. “It all started because I used to spend a lot of time at Heaton Lodge as a 12-year-old kid watching the trains go by,” Simon said. “I had happy memories of it all. I wasn’t …