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 ...

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 ...

Main image: An L0 series five-car maglev train on a test run in Japan in in 2013. It has yet to begin passenger service. (Photo: Saruno Hirobano, under CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.) If you’re over a certain ...

Britain’s toy shop, The Entertainer, has opened pre-orders for its brand-new and exclusive Meccano range, available now via TheToyShop.com, ahead of the official in-store and online launch in ...

Meccano Martian Mission is a recreation of the 1979 Atari game Lunar Lander but without any screens. It’s an entirely mechanical creation with levers and dials used to control the thrust of a landing ...

If William Gibson and Bruce Sterling had written an arcade scene into “The Difference Engine”, it probably would have looked a lot like [Pete Wood]’s Meccano Martian Mission, as illustrated in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amersham-based toy brand Addo Play has agreed a multi-year global licensing agreement with children’s entertainment company Spin Master to carry forward the iconic heritage brand Meccano. Originally ...

A high-speed Brightline train in Florida collided with a Delray Beach Fire Rescue ladder truck Saturday morning, leaving at least 15 people with injuries, including three firefighters. The ...

More than a dozen people, including three firefighters, were injured Saturday when a passenger train collided with a fire rescue truck in Delray Beach, Florida, officials said. The collision occurred ...