Anyone who uses google (so pretty much everyone with an internet connection) will know that today would have been Frank Hornby’s 150th Birthday. 

Frank Hornby was an inventor who invented (amongst other things) Meccano, Dinky Toys, clockwork 0 gauge trains and Hornby Dublo.  Frank Hornby is therefore a very important figure to railway modellers like myself.  Today therefore, http://www.locoyard.com says Happy Birthday to Frank Hornby and shows a few pictures of modern Hornby models in action on the layout…