A RARE collection of 2,000 Dinky toys and other cars and trains, which has been lovingly built up over 50 years, could fetch £250,000 at an auction.

Retired car dealer Raymond Hainsworth, 78, and his wife Pat, who live near Skipton, started collecting the toys when their twin boys were babies.

The lot will be up at Vectis auction house at Thornaby, Teesside, in a three-day sale which will start on Tuesday, March 17.