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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.
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 ]
Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock.Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
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 .
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]
G&R Wrenn's first product line was trackwork for 00 gauge model railway equipment, producing a variety of points and crossings for both 2- and 3-rail formats.. Initially located at Lee Green in southeast London, the company moved in 1955 to new larger premises in Basildon in Essex, where it remained until its final dissolution in 1992.
Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom (5 C, 126 P) Pages in category "Rolling stock manufacturers of the United Kingdom" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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].