Welcome to Britannia Models, your British model trains destination!
Our business serves a customer base of British railway modellers across North America and therefore much of our business is done through online, email and phone orders. In order to respond to those customers in a timely manner, our bricks and mortar store operates on limited opening hours as shown below. We are happy to receive walk-in customers by appointment on the days we are not open and in this way, they too can receive more immediate and full attention.
We carry a large selection of products including Hornby, Dapol, Bachmann Branchline, Farish and Ace Trains, locomotives, rolling stock and accessories. Other model railway accessories include Peco, Ratio, Wills, Metcalfe, Woodland Scenics, Superquick, Kestrel. Diecast road vehicles in OO scale from Corgi, Oxford, Base Toys, EFE, Cararama and Classix. British magazines and videos (NTSC format) covering railway modeling, the real railway, past, present and preserved. Plastic kits from Airfix, Tamiya, Italeria, Svesda plus paints, glues, brushes and tools.
Price Guides are now available!
 We now have the following very useful Price Guides available. Check the values of your collection or check out how much that model you always wanted is selling for at recent auctions! HORNBY TRAINS Price Guide Our 100-page guide is the only publication providing values on vintage Hornby Dublo, O & OO gauges and includes the most comprehensive value guide for locomotives, rolling stock, accessories, sets and catalogues produced by Hornby & Tri-ang in the UK before production finally moved to the far east in the mid 1990s. Packed with over 150 colour pictures, the publisher has been granted access to three of the UK's finest collections and includes several never before listed items, together with overseas issues and uses the very latest prices achieved through UK auction houses and the internet making it a must for all those interested in vintage Hornby Trains. $ 12.00 DINKY TOYS 75th Anniversary Price Guide This 100-page guide is the only dedicated price guide & listing for the models produced by Dinky Toys from 1934 -1979, and includes over 100 colour photographs, information from specialist collectors about rare releases, box variations for each model and where produced trade pack versions, the most comprehensive Gift Set section ever produced as well as up to date prices realised at auction for the many colour and packaging variations produced by the company. $ 13.00 CORGI TOYS Price Guide Our 148 page guide is the only dedicated publication providing values on Corgi Toys produced from 1956-1985 and includes the most comprehensive listings for colour, wheel and box variations ever produced and includes details of the correct leaflets that support each model, enhancing their value. Bound and with a stiff cover, it is packed with over 250 colour pictures, the publisher has been granted access to one of the countries finest collections and includes never before listed items and variations, overseas issues and uses the very latest prices achieved through UK auction houses and the internet making it a must for all those interested in Corgi Toys. $ 17.00 See us at these remaining Trainshows and events in 2010:
What is the British Heritage Festival you say? Check it out here.
We can't bring the whole store to the show. If there is something you would like us to bring, please let us know ahead of time. Latest News:August 28th, 2010 - We are pleased to announce that we are now an authorised Walthers dealer. What does this mean for you? Well, you can now order any item from the Walthers HO or N & Z scale Walthers Reference Books, through us. This includes big names like Atlas, Broadway Limited, Digitrax, Intermountain, Kato, Kaydee Couplers, LGB, Lionel, Loksound, Marklin, MRC, Trix, plus many, many small manufacturers of handy stuff. The Reference Books for 2011 will be here soon and are priced at $15.98. Call or email us now to pre-order your copy. August 21st, 2010 - If you have previously missed out on Hornby Pullman coach stock, now is a good time to build up your Pullman rolling stock as we have a great selection of Parlour and Kitchen cars. Remember that these cars all have LED table lamps. August 20th, 2010 - And here's to you Mr. Robinson... Yes, the first two liveries of the Robinson Class 04 ROD loco are now in stock. These are the BR late crest (31-001) and the LNER (31-003) versions. July 21st, 2010 - For all you Thomas modellers out there, the HO/OO scale Tidmouth Sheds Roundhouse with operating turntable is due from Bachmann at the end of September. As it comes (see image) it is a five-road shed but there are extra sections of roudhouse available as an add-on. We are expecting this item will sell out quickly so if you want one we recommend you place your order with us now. The retail price is $175.00 If you put down a 20% deposit the price will be $ 158.00
June 30, 2010 - Check out our new website. It may look the same on this page but we have upgraded the site to include product images again. We received many comments that people liked to see images of the products we list for sale, so we have made a start and will be adding more images over the next days and weeks. We have added product listings for much of the OO scale diecast we carry, and we have added a new page for the OO scale working lamps from Patronics, with pictures!. Check the Patronics lamps here
March 26th, 2010 - The New York Times and other news agencies suggest that Chinese manufacturing centers are competing for workers with higher pay and improved production environments. Every year, following the annual Lunar New Year festival, firms typically lose 10% of their migrant workers. This year companies are reporting this figure to be as high as 40%. Workers are not returning to the coastal manufacturing areas because the government stimulus program is creating jobs in the interior of the country, closer to home for these workers. Economists suggest China has drained its once vast reserves of unemployed workers in rural areas and is running out of fresh labourers for its factories. Some factories in the Guandong-Shenzen manufacturing areas are offering bonuses for signing on and for recommending relatives for employment. What all this means for us is that all products from China, including model trains and hobby supplies will see price increases! Anyone ready to re-open Binns Road! 
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