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Rails of Sheffield is a British retailer and manufacturer of model railway paraphernalia founded in Sheffield, England, in 1970 by Hedley Francis Barber (1929–2015). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The shop, which is located on Chesterfield Road , which has seen numerous expansions over the decades, has become the largest stockist of model railway products in ...
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 ...
The oldest society is 'The Model Railway Club' [5] (established 1910), near Kings Cross, London, UK. As well as building model railways, it has 5,000 books and periodicals. Similarly, 'The Historical Model Railway Society' [6] at Butterley, near Ripley, Derbyshire specialises in historical matters and has archives available to members and non ...
This is a category for companies who have made products related to model railroading or railway modelling. See also Category:Toy train manufacturers . Subcategories
It was introduced at the Tokyo Toy Show in 2006 by KK Eishindo of Japan and went on sale in 2007. It is the smallest commercial model train scale in the world. Since mid-2009, Railway Shop (Hong Kong) is the exclusive licensed manufacturer. Models at N, Z, Ze and T gauges Steam locomotive at T gauge T gauge steam locomotive on a 1 euro coin
ARLO-Micromodels (former - Fabrica de construções ARLO - Porto-Portugal, established in 1939 by Arnaldo Luizello da Rocha-Brito) - Still existing today and as a five generation owned brand, Patent 22130 (discontinued actually), as being the first multimaterial kits produced, using several wood types parts, industrially finely cut and lathe shaped, embossed tinplate parts using cutting dies ...
A HO scale model of SBB CFF FFS electric locomotive made for the European markets. A simplified HO scale model of SNCF diesel locomotive made for the European markets. Lima (Lavorazione Italiana Metalli e Affini) was founded in 1946 as a parts supplier for the Italian state railway. In 1948, Lima switched its aluminium casting capability to ...
Superquick Models is the brand of a series of printed card kit buildings used mainly for model railways.Manufacturing takes place entirely in the United Kingdom. There are several ranges of model kit - railway buildings in Series A; houses, farm buildings and industrial buildings in Series B; houses and shops in low relief (to line the backs of layouts) in series C and brick and stone textured ...