mdcronin

Hi David,

If you decide to try one of our Trainsporters boxes, please feel free to contact us first on 07979 822811 to discuss exactly what you require.  As members of the Hillingdon Railway Modellers, my partners and I designed the boxes to support the storage and transportation needs for our Grindley Brook O gauge layout.  We have subsequently used those design principles for our OO gauge boxes.  Clearly as you can see from the replies to you original post, there are many different methods to choose from.  There are also some very good competitors products in the market, as well as the very serviceable home grown examples suggested.  However, with some of the addition items we use to finish the boxes off, such as the Plastic sleeving, Labelling and Silica gel sachets, included we feel our product is very well rounded.

Very best regards,

Mark.

Dear John,

Thank you very much for your feedback.  We are really pleased to hear how much time this will save you and any formation confusion this might save.  Your pictures show the product off perfectly, when and where is your next show?

Best regards,

Mark, Carl and Tony,

From trainsporters.com aka The Box Boys

Dear All,

We, "The Box Boys", just wanted to say a very big thank you to all of you the were able to pop along and visit our Trainsporters stand at the Great Electric Train Show earlier this month.  It was great to meet you all and we look forward to meeting many more of you at the Tolworth show next Month.

Very best ergards,

Mark.

I Just wanted to let you all know that following your feedback on this thread, Trainsporters are now supplying foam only inserts as well as the complete boxes.  Thank you all very much for your advice.

Very best regards,

Mark.

Hi All,

Just to let you know that in preparation for the Exhibition circuit opening up again, Trainsporters has just received its latest consignment of Storage and Transportation boxes.  Head over to www.trainsporters.com to view their wares.

Best regards,

Mark.

one of "The Box Boys"

Dear All,

Just to let you know that if you have any more questions, comments or suggestions, we have two Q&A sessions at the Guild O Gauge virtual exhibition coming up this weekend, Saturday 31st October 2020 at 12:30 and 15:30 for 30 mins each slot.  Please feel free to stop by our virtual stand and chat to Carl and I.  Information about the show can be found here https://www.gaugeoguild.com along with a timetable of events for the day.

Very best regards,

Mark.

One of the Box Boys!

Dear All,

Thank you for the feedback on this thread.

As a founding member of the Trainsporters company, I thought I ought to share with you the premise for the design of our boxes and the unexpected success we have had with our designs.

Firstly, I don't disagree with any of your comments, I think they all have their own merit.

Some of you might be familiar with the Hillingdon Railway Modellers, Grindley Brook O gauge layout.  As members of that club and in a supporting role for the O Gauge group at exhibitions, my fellow founders Carl and Tony, had witnessed the frustration of the team when unpacking and packing rolling stock from individual boxes.  To relieve the stress of those O gauge members that were assembling and disassembling their train formations, we decided to provide an O gauge version of the excellent designs from Ten Commandments and others from the OO gauge fraternity.  Over a period of months, we perfected the design until the O gauge group were happy and then provided the boxes for them to use.  To our surprise many of the members also used them as permanent storage solutions for their rolling stock and for some, even their loco’s. 
 

Because we also have relationships with a number of other clubs, we had offered these designs to them for review and before we knew where we were, they took a liking to them and as they say, the rest is history!  That gave birth to Trainsporters and our growing group of followers.  The feedback so far suggests that our designs are fit for purpose and as correctly pointed out these are based on 20L and 33L Really Useful Product items, we make no secret of that.  One, they are very good products and equally important, they are Made in Britain.  Importantly the choice of these products was for the purpose of safe transportation of stock in a robust, stackable and waterproof housing hence our name Trainsporters.  Our secret sauce is the inserts, and we have tried to supply a variety of designs to suit most needs, we also recently introduced our OO gauge range to support that community, of which Carl, Tony and I are avid members.

In the future we are hoping to supply complete train sets, which is why we choose ten slots for the OO gauge boxes, so that we could support a complete set of HST formations for example.  This would also allow us to bring the best of brands together to give people the benefit of the best stock and locomotives from different manufacturers in the same train set.  Obviously, we are at a very early stage of our development and your feedback is warmly welcomed.  The idea of offering just the inserts, is one that we will review carefully.  However, because of the precision cutting of our products we are not sure that we could offer that at a price that would allow people to buy their own boxes and couple them with our inserts at a cost effective price.  Especially as the whole package includes protective sleaving for each of the slots and moisture absorbing silica gel sachets.

If you would like to know more or have any enquires please do not hesitate to contact us directly through our web site or Facebook pages, simply do a search for Trainsporters and that will bring you straight to our door.

Once again thank you and please keep your feedback coming, we really do appreciate it.

Very best regards,

Mark.

One of the Box Boys!