Talk:Hornby Railways
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How would you place Zero-1 in the digital category? As far as I can remember the decoders were fully analogue-based, as opposed to today's DCC decoders which contain a microcontroller. --Arpa 21:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
http://www.digitrains.co.uk/DCC.htm "There was not great progress until the late 1970s when a number of sytems began to be developed of which Hornby's Zero 1 was an example along with others such as the Dynatrol system in the US and the Marklin/Motorola format in Europe. All of these systems are forms of Digital Command Control but had the drawback that they were competeing manufacturers sytems incompatable with each other."
May not have been compatible with the NRMA DCC standard (which hadn't been developed then), but it was still digital.
--83.104.250.96 10:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hornby Railways Category?
Is creating one a good plan? The following articles could go in a Hornby Railways category if it was created:
- Arnold (models)
- Frank Hornby
- Jouef
- Hornby Railways
- Hornby International
- Lima
- Lyddle End
- Meccano_Ltd
- Tri-ang Railways
- Smokey Joe
- Skaledale
--Zabdiel 13:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- Done - see Category:Hornby Hobbies. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 09:20, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Skaledale/Lyddle End Merge?
I don't think Skaledale and Lyddle End satisfy the notability criteria for products so they should be merged. --Zabdiel 10:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
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- No, don't merge - Hornby Hobbies missed out on purchase of Graham Farish, and Lyddle End is an obvious pre-cursor copy of the Bachmann strategy of just downsizing OO scale models into the Nguage market. How long before we have Hornby in the Nguage market - not long I would suggest! Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 09:23, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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