It has taken almost 40 years, but architect Richard Hallam has seen an invention he dreamed up while he was sick in bed steam into the shops this Christmas. Mr Hallam is the man behind the Hornby's ...

This Hornby Steam locomotive was a Christmas present. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums ...

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Thomas Peckett was born in Wakefield in 1834 and went on to be the founder of Peckett and Sons. The company manufactured a range of railway vehicles from their works in Bristol for around 80 years, ...

This is a model train produced by Hornby / Meccano around 1954. It's pretty rusted and the clockwork mechanism was completely seized. I didn't want to disassemble this engine not to damage the ...

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