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  2. Category:Model railroad manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    This is a category for companies who have made products related to model railroading or railway modelling. See also Category:Toy train manufacturers. Subcategories.

  3. Peco - Wikipedia

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    PECO is a UK-based manufacturer of model railway accessories, especially trackwork, based at Pecorama, Beer in South Devon, England. [1]PECO is the collective name for the Pritchard Patent Product Company Ltd, Peco Publications and Publicity Ltd, and Pecorama. [2]

  4. Kader Group - Wikipedia

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    In November 2008, Kader also took over Sanda Kan, its nearest competitor for precision model railway items in the Hong-Kong based ODM contract manufacturing business. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Sanda Kan's biggest client had been Bachmann's dominant rival in the UK market Hornby Railways , which had concentrated production there since 1997–2001. [ 3 ]

  5. List of model railways - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of model railways. The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud . [ 1 ] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ...

  6. Hornby Railways - Wikipedia

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    Hornby Hobbies bought model paint manufacturer Humbrol and their scale model kit subsidiary Airfix in 2007. The die-cast model car brand Corgi was added in 2008. Hornby's other brands include for model railways Bassett-Lowke , Jouef , Lima , Rivarossi and Electrotren, the large scale car model kit Pocher , and the scale car racing Scalextric .

  7. Lima (models) - Wikipedia

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    Lima focused heavily on the British range in the late 1980s which had expanded hugely due to the Sectorisation strategy of the then state operator British Rail.This was possible because of their capability to do small production runs (c.500) [citation needed], in contrast to its main UK rival, Hornby Railways, who required a minimum run of 4,000 [citation needed].

  8. Category : Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom

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    B. W. G. Bagnall; Baguley Cars Ltd; Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. Albert Barnes & Co; Bassett-Lowke; William Beardmore and Company; Beyer, Peacock and Company

  9. Rivarossi - Wikipedia

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    Rivarossi model of 2-6-6-6. Rivarossi was founded in 1945 by Antonio Riva and Alessandro Rossi. [1] In the 1990s Rivarossi acquired Lima (1992), Jouef and Arnold (1997). In 2003 Rivarossi went into receivership. In 2004 Hornby Railways plc acquired assets from Rivarossi, in particular the brands Arnold, Jouef, Rivarossi and Lima. Since 2006 ...