For this blog post I thought I’d do something different and take you on a video tour of the Hornby Magazine workshop. As always we are busy behind the scenes working on a series of micro layouts for the April…
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On Monday we made the trip to London for the annual Bachmann catalogue launch – which you can read about on the News pages of our website and also in more detail in HM141, March 2019, on sale from February…
I’m breathing a huge sigh of relief as I type as our brand new ‘OO’ gauge exhibition layout, West Coast Cement, which is debuting at the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition this weekend (November 24/25 2018) is now complete, packed…
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It is literally only a few days since we packed up at the Great Electric Train Show, but already our thoughts are focused on the next two exhibitions for Hornby Magazine – the Spalding Model Railway Exhibition in Lincolnshire on…
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Tonight is a special night for railway modelling as Channel 5s new Great Model Railway Challenge is set to air at 8pm this evening. It pits teams of modellers against each other to build working model railways for this brand…
Time flies and it barely seems like five minutes ago that we were packing up after the Great Electric Train Show in 2017 with Twelve Trees Junction after a marathon build. But, here we are, 12 months later and the…
I’ve been making an effort to stop by the line side on my regular photography trips for the magazine lately. On August 15 I headed across country to Crewe for a photo shoot with the team from 45C (HM125) to…
Its not often I get the opportunity to stand by the line side these days, but earlier this week after visiting Pendon Museum for the official opening of the Bristol Line (you can read all about that in HM134, on…
Last Friday, May 11, we were headed north for the opening of Rails of Sheffield’s new Emporium which forms part of its retail premises on Chesterfield Road in Sheffield. Rails has been part of the model railway world since the…
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The Hornby Magazine ‘O’ gauge test track has taken a back seat from the limelight lately, but that doesn’t mean it hasnt’ been worked on – its just that Topley Dale has been taking centre stage. Alongside the regeneration of…
February 2020Welcome to the February 2020 issue of Hornby Magazine, featuring everything you need to know about Hornby’s 2020 catalogue launch and centenary year range plus an exclusive competition to win Hornby’s new model of Stephenson’s Rocket and much more. Highlights include a feature on Lewis Bucknell’s YouTube featured Yorkshire Dales Model Railway, the full story behind our three-week layout build for the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition and David Barker’s fabulous Cornwallis Yard in ‘EM’ gauge. Reviews are headlined by Hatton’s new ‘OO’ Class 66 alongside the equally anticipated Heljan Class 50 and Dapol Sentinel 4wVBT for ‘O’ gauge. Plus, we have exclusive video from the Yorkshire Dales Model Railway which is only available in the digital edition of Hornby Magazine. Don’t miss it!
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