Sentence examples for railway maker from inspiring English sources

Hornby is closing the warehouse at its Margate headquarters in a move that could see the model railway maker leave its historic site on the Kent coast entirely.

Model railway maker Hornby is another example, shifting its paint production back to the UK from China after there were fears that any quality issues would take several weeks to be resolved.

Hornby's chief executive, Richard Ames, has quit less than a week after the model railway maker issued a third profit warning in five months and said it risked breaching a lending agreement with its bank.

Model railway maker Hornby has reported falling sales but insisted there was "light at the end of the tunnel" as it approached the crucial Christmas selling season, having made progress on resolving supply chain difficulties.

The model railway maker blamed recurring delays at its manufacturer in China and the falling value of foreign currency it had set aside to pay for the late trains.

Hornby has posted a £4.5m loss for the first half of its financial year after an overhaul of the model railway maker's operations disrupted sales.

In the 1980s and '90s it acquired a number of railcar and railway equipment makers, including ANF-Industrie in France and Deutsche Waggonbau AG in Germany.

Hornby shares have run out of steam as the model railway and Scalextric maker warned profits would be below expectations after a disappointing Christmas.

Tianrui had hired nine employees from the Chinese licensee of Amsted Industries of Chicago, a maker of railway parts.

George Stephenson, locomotive maker and railway engineer, lived and died in Chesterfield and assessed the commercial potential of local coal and ironstone.

GE Equipment Services recently bought 15percentt of Titagarh Wagons Limited, a maker of railway wagons in India, "and we may well do a financing venture with them in the future," said Deborah M. Reif, chief executive of GE Equipment.