Hornby’s train sets were once a staple in every child’s bedroom, but a recent decline in sales points to hard times for the toy company Ed Cumming is a senior feature writer and columnist who started ...

An ‘astonishing’ model railway layout built up over 50 years by an avid collector is to be auctioned this month – three years after his death. Ted Kenny, a printer from York, was given his first train ...

Leo Kelly, who is seven years old, has won the race to become a Hornby ‘Mini Conductor’. The model company invited children from across the United Kingdom to submit a video that explained why they ...

A seven-year-old Carryduff boy has been chosen as Hornby's first-ever Mini Conductor, following a nationwide search for the ...

On reading that Hornby, the maker of Scalextric and model trains, had lost out badly in Christmas sales to iPads and computer games, I thought of Pete, a friend from my 70s boyhood in York. He and his ...