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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.
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 ...
Varney's V-1 motor was the beginning of his HO endeavor. It was small enough to place in an HO scale loco, with enough power to pull a long train. The motors ran on 6 volts direct current, like most designs of that day. Varney first offered the 4-6-2 Pacific and the 2-8-0 Consolidation in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Trix Express, AC-model BR 20/54 (1939) on bakelite rails. Trix is a German company that originally made Trix metal construction sets.One of its co-founders was Stephan Bing, the son of the pioneer toy-maker industrialist Ignaz Bing.
The range comprised mainly British railway rolling stock but there were a few kits of other subjects. The range consisted of 34 kits of individual locomotives or carriages, a model of the Ariel Arrow motorcycle, the "Fireball XL5" rocket, parts to motorise the railway kits (using a motorised box wagon supplied pre-built, or a motor bogie) and three railway presentation sets:
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.
Airfix produced a large number of plastic kits for both railway stock and scenic items. Some of these such as the footbridge and engine shed became instantly recognisable to almost every railway modeller in the UK. The brand label was changed to Great Model Railways (GMR) in 1979, although the Airfix name was still included.
A HO scale whitemetal kit of the SMR 10 Class was produced in the 1970s by FSM (Fine Scale Models), and the moulds were later sold to Casula Hobbies. Under an arrangement with Casula Hobbies, Lloyds Model Railways designed an etched brass chassis for the kit and, together with Casula Hobbies, sold the model as a complete kit.