A long-lost commemorative plaque marking the birthplace of a famous Liverpool engineer and toy maker is to be reinstated at the city's main train station. Frank Hornby, the brains behind Meccano, one ...

LOCOMOTION: The National Railway Museum at Shildon will be celebrating the magic of Meccano with a display of models on Sunday and Monday, May 29 and 30, organised in association with the North ...

150 years after the birth of one of the world's most celebrated toy creators, Google has paid tribute to Mr Hornby with a nostalgic doodle featuring toy trains. Frank Hornby, the inventor of Hornby ...

This is the story of a great British icon, which, despite being full of holes, conquered the world. It is also the story of why that icon is no longer British but French; why the icon is about to ...

Fans of the Liverpool-born inventor of Meccano and Hornby model railways were today marking what would have been his 150th birthday. Frank Hornby, who became MP for Everton in 1931, was honoured by ...

MECCANO EXHIBITION: The North-East Meccano Society is to hold an exhibition at Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon. There will be displays of the toy throughout the ages at the museum’s ...

INTRICATE: Eight-year-olds Jordan Bowden and Madison Bowden, Masterton, are fascinated by the workings of the Meccano railway. Hundreds of visitors tracked through the doors on both days of the ...

In a bid to take on a building-set behemoth, Canadian toy company Spin Master is reviving a classic. Toronto-based Spin Master Ltd. has acquired the iconic Meccano construction set line, with the ...

Hornby invented Meccano and was said to have been inspired by the railway in Liverpool A long-lost commemorative plaque marking the birthplace of a famous Liverpool engineer and toy maker is to be ...