Sentence examples for railway set from inspiring English sources

Anyone who bought a Hornby railway set this Christmas will be delighted to read your letter.

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His basement was occupied by a model railway set, which the privileged were also allowed to play with, and walls were knocked down to accommodate it.

Given the picturesque, wooded countryside it passes through, the Semmering line is a bit like an ambitious Hornby railway set come to life.

Fashion in the 1940s is remembered in a new exhibition at Snibston (01530 278444; snibston.com), a museum and historic railway set in a country park on the site of a former colliery at Coalville.

There'll be many children hoping for a railway set this Christmas.

In 1934, he began selling Dinky Toys – robust metal vehicles – and also began developing railway sets.

But there are no people, even though a few figurines, like the ones that populate model railway sets, would add a sense of human scale.

The company, home to its eponymous railway sets as well as Airfix models, Humbrol paints and Corgi die-cast models, was appointed official toy maker to the 2012 Games last summer.

Worried about a backlash from Western consumers, global corporations are now upgrading their own inspections, particularly in the aftermath of a recall by the RC2 Corporation of Illinois of its popular Thomas & Friends toy railway sets after they were found to have been coated with lead paint.

The first mass market railway sets where made by Marklin in Germany in 1891 but it was a group of English hobbyists who in 1904 began model building.