[neil_s_wood]

Sounds like he was specifically targeted from the news article.

I saw a similar item about a Scottish collection of, I think O gauge locos. They did recover them as the thieves tried to sell them on Ebay. Bit of a worry about garage layouts though. I might consider bars on the window of mine.

 

[neil_s_wood]

I got the impression from the news item that it would have been planned as the guys who had the trains stolen did shows so people would have been aware of what he had in his possession. It could have been some one who knew him or chatted to him at a show and found out he kept them in his garage.