The guy who runs these things does a lot of shots like this. Always a theme - trains, planes, boats, horses etc. Usually quite good fun and he has "re-enacters", which means models, in period dress. Trouble is most of them are dahn sarf and they are few and far between oop north.
On phone so can't do links but Google Time Line Events for an idea of what he does. He gets to places you can't normally go on your own. £60 for last night which was reasonable value. He had lights and smoke machines and his models plus he got the place to stay open long after dark. Couldn't do that by yourself.