Hornby, the maker of iconic British toys from Airfix to Scalextric, has seen pre-tax profits fall to £3.9m from £4.1m in 2011. Best known for its model trains, here is a look at the history of the ...

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 ...

With festive travel stressing a third of Brits, Hornby brings Christmas cheer to Newcastle commuters with nostalgic train ...

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 Scalextric ...

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 ...

Model train maker Hornby has warned that sales for the current financial year will be below expectations because of supply chain issues. The company also said, external that sales would be below last ...

This trainset was produced in the 1950s, at the Hornby factory in Liverpool. The Hornby company made some iconic toys - Hornby trainsets, Meccano and Dinky toys, and the company was founded by Frank ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Punctuality, it seems, is just as important for toy-train companies as real ones. Hornby, maker of model rail ...

Model train company Hornby is to re-register as a private company to help with its ongoing overhaul - Danny Lawson/PA Model train maker Hornby is to quit the ailing London stock market after hiring ...

The toy and model maker Hornby insisted that its years of underperformance, supply chain problems and profits warnings were finally behind it – as it revealed a massive slump into the red once again.

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 ...