The model train maker is hoping increasing popularity of its smaller-scale sets will lead to a strong festive period.

Model railway maker Hornby has seen its sales surge by 33% in the six months to the end of September, as more people took up hobbies in lockdown. The firm, which also makes Corgi cars and ...

and the company was founded by Frank Hornby, who was a visionary producer of toys as well as a businessman and politician. This toy dates from a time when train driver was an aspirational career ...

"There was one wall of the room lined with plastic boxes and inside every plastic box were boxed Hornby trains and coaches, hundreds and hundreds of them," she said. Mr Batty owned items from the ...

A model engineer looks at a Hornby Pullman model train at the London Model Engineering Exhibition at Alexandra Palace, London. Hornby, the international models and collectables group advised by ...

Hornby is selling its loss-making Oxford Diecast model car brand for 1.38 million pounds ($1.8 million) as part of a streamlining of the business and as it focuses on its Corgi brand within the ...

Hornby has agreed the sale of a loss-making business as part of strategic efforts to return the model train maker to profitability. The group told shareholders on Tuesday it would sell Oxford ...

Tracks. Diesel. Railroad. Huge Map of the USA. Train Cars. Coal, Tractor or even Tank Freight. Authentic Stations. Realistic Locomotives. Picturesque Scenery ...

Track the history of Hornby’s iconic model trains from Frank Hornby’s early home-made toys in sheet metal, through the development of Hornby ‘O’ gauge and Hornby-Dublo. Trace the ...

Allan Zarembski, a professor at the University of Delaware and director of its Railway Engineering and Safety Program, told USA TODAY that traveling by train is "dramatically" safer than by car.

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