Richard Ames ran model railway maker for less than two years and had said it also risks breaching bank lending agreement Hornby’s chief executive, Richard Ames, has quit less than a week after the ...

Hornby said it was "a real honour" to be celebrated on Royal Mail stamps Royal Mail is issuing a set of 12 stamps to celebrate Hornby Model Railways, which was first started by Liverpool toymaker ...

Hornby, the train-set maker, is in trouble, so men of a certain age must rally round and rescue a piece of our childhood Derailed: troubled train-set manufacturer Hornby has announced that its next ...

Hornby, the maker of iconic British toys from model trains to Airfix to Scalextric, has suffered a blow from dissappointing sales of London 2012 Olympic merchandise. Here is a look at the history of ...

YET AGAIN I am taken back to my childhood days and how many of us boys remember waking up on Christmas morning to find a Hornby train set or a Meccano set or both under the Christmas tree? Well I ...

The search engine Google is celebrating the 150th birthday of visionary toy maker Frank Hornby, whose model railways, Meccano sets and Dinky toys are still being played with by children today. Born in ...

Royal Mail is issuing a set of 12 stamps to celebrate the world of Hornby Model Railways. Frank Hornby, the inventor of Meccano, produced his first clockwork Hornby Series trains in 1920, followed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Royal Mail is issuing a set of 12 stamps to celebrate the world of Hornby Model Railways. Frank Hornby, the inventor of Meccano, ...