The Rovex Story  Volume 3 -  Hornby Railways

Rovex Story Volume 1 - Tri-ang Railways

Rovex Story Volume 2 - Tri-ang Hornby

Rovex Story Volume 3 - Hornby Railways

Price £50

ISBN 1904562000

This volume  traces the product (now called Hornby Railways) under DCM ownership from 1972 until their collapse in the early '80s.   It continues with Hornby Hobbies as an independent company, up to 1996.  This includes the highly productive years of the 1980s and 1990s to the inevitable transfer of production to China.

Over 600 locomotive variations were produced during this time as well as numerous coaches, wagons , buildings etc. The book covers every known model variation as well as many hundreds of train sets produced during the 25 years of Hornby Railways.  It also includes many models that Hornby considered making but abandoned and there are photographs of the samples of these made at the time.  With over 500 pages, more than 1,000 coloured photographs were needed to illustrate the book.   There is also a chapter devoted to other products which were sold under the Hornby name including Hornby Minitrix, Playtrains, Thomas the Tank Engine, 3.D.S, Hornby Stamps, Hornby Toys, Minic Ships, Hornby Steam etc.

Signed Copies - The price is  £50 but signed copies are no longer available from the author.  Orders should now be directed to The Publisher - The Rovex Story trilogy is published by New Cavendish Books, 3 Denbigh Road, London W11 2SJ - Tel 0171 229 6765

Volume 4 - Hornby (1997-?)

In 1997 the product name changed to 'Hornby' and a new era of high quality models for the adult market was started.  This is likely to be the subject of a fourth volume at sometime in the future.