Talk:Hornby Railways

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How would you place Zero-1 in the digital category? As far as I can remember the decoders were fully analogue-based, as opposed to today's DCC decoders which contain a microcontroller. --Arpa 21:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

http://www.digitrains.co.uk/DCC.htm "There was not great progress until the late 1970s when a number of sytems began to be developed of which Hornby's Zero 1 was an example along with others such as the Dynatrol system in the US and the Marklin/Motorola format in Europe. All of these systems are forms of Digital Command Control but had the drawback that they were competeing manufacturers sytems incompatable with each other."

May not have been compatible with the NRMA DCC standard (which hadn't been developed then), but it was still digital.

--83.104.250.96 10:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Hornby Railways Category?

Is creating one a good plan? The following articles could go in a Hornby Railways category if it was created:

• Arnold (models)
• Frank Hornby
• Jouef
• Hornby Railways
• Hornby International
• Lima
• Lyddle End
• Meccano_Ltd
• Tri-ang Railways
• Smokey Joe
• Skaledale
• Hornby Virgin Trains Pendolino —Preceding unsigned comment added by XsandaSC (talk • contribs) 09:27, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

--Zabdiel 13:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Done - see Category:Hornby Hobbies. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 09:20, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Skaledale/Lyddle End Merge?

I don't think Skaledale and Lyddle End satisfy the notability criteria for products so they should be merged. --Zabdiel 10:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

• No, don't merge - Hornby Hobbies missed out on purchase of Graham Farish, and Lyddle End is an obvious pre-cursor copy of the Bachmann strategy of just downsizing OO scale models into the Nguage market. How long before we have Hornby in the Nguage market - not long I would suggest! Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 09:23, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

• Yes - Unless the articles can be fleshed significantly, and I don't think they can, they do not justify their own articles. Thedarxide (talk) 16:13, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed merge

Hornby Trains and Hornby Railways appear to cover the same company in separate articles. As this is the older article, I propose that Hornby Trains is redirected to this page, with any useful unduplicated material from that article merged into this one. Any thoughts? —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 22:05, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

• Agree - this article seems much better structured and "wikified" than Hornby Trains, and hence it should be kept. BTW, Hornby's website says the company used to be called Hornby Railways and now "Hornby Group Plc". Regards, DPdH (talk) 03:35, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

• Comment -- should we be keeping separate Hornby the company (which was Hornby Hobbies for a while, and also owns Scalextric, Lima, Airfix?, Corgi?, etc) from the "Hornby" railway product range? I would have thought that there is sufficient documented history to support two such articles. Where the common history is placed would need to be determined, but is a recurring problem for many WP articles. EdJogg (talk) 09:25, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
• Comment The two articles should be merged but I don't think we should keep either name. I suggest merging Hornby Trains into Hornby Railways and renaming to Hornby PLC. Neither Hornby Trains or Hornby Railways are accurate, both are previous names of the manufacturer. The company is now simply Hornby PLC. Even DPdH's suggestion of Hornby Group Plc isn't correct any more. The About Hornby page isn't clear but you'll note it says it is simply called Hornby which the latest report from the company confirms. So in my view, if there weren't any conflicting names, "Hornby" would be the most appropriate name but giving the company's full legal name of "Hornby PLC" serves to disambiguate the article. At this current time I don't consider it necessary to split between the company and the product range of model trains especially considering that a huge part of Hornby Trains is unsourced and so should probably be removed. Adambro (talk) 11:56, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

As there seems to be no objections, I'll redirect Hornby Trains to this article. It seems to be a fork from this page in the first place. —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 09:18, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Split into separate "Hornby Railways" and "Hornby Hobbies" pages

I agree with EdJogg above, I think that a separate "Hornby Hobbies" article is justified.

The "Hornby" model railway brand started out owned by Meccano Ltd (which already has its own company page), so I think that giving HH its own page too would produce a more consistent and logical structure. HH owns so many other toy brands (including other model railway brands) that already have their own separate wiki pages, and has so much history that interfaces with all those brands, that there should be no problem filling a page with just the main HH company history and crosslinks to all the other relevant wiki pages - it'd be quite a strongly-linked page. But having a single page that attempts to be a "hub" both for a single ongoing product line (which spans different companies' histories) and the current "owner" company (whose story includes so many different brands) seems anomalous, and IMO doesn't really do justice to either. ErkDemon (talk) 16:13, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

File:V.R_B_Class_Diesel_1976a.jpg may be deleted

I have tagged File:V.R_B_Class_Diesel_1976a.jpg, which is in use in this article for deletion because it does not have a copyright tag. If a copyright tag is not added within seven days the image will be deleted. --Chris 00:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Who Wrote This???

"It is generally accepted amongst railway modellers that Hornby models generally outclass Bachmann models."

Who ever wrote this must be a hornby fan boy, please remove it or I will do it for you. I would say that Bachmann are far superior have you seen the Hornby 66? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.112.140.41 (talk) 10:29, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Scalextric

It would be good if the article could mention the Scalextric model car division somewhere appropriate. —Sladen (talk) 15:51, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

I think that that's the sort of thing that would fit nicely into a separate Hornby Hobbies company page. ErkDemon (talk) 16:17, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

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James May says ..

In this (interesting!) BBC programme, James May mentions a few additional snippets about the Hornby Triang evolution in the 50s and 60s. The Re-assembler. 58.153.66.47 (talk) 17:03, 20 September 2018 (UTC)