Captain Slough

I've got the hull from that Triang freighter with a freelance body on top that I built, as it came with a smashed upper body Not clockwork but electric - large centrally mounted motor, space for D-cell batteries and a propshaft drive to a brass propeller and a settable external rudder also in brass. Motor was also knackered so I refitted it with a modern one and C-cells, but have almost never run it for fear ,of it sailing off over the horizon. I've also got a clockwork triang motor torpedo boat that I once had to wait for an hour for natural water motion to bring to the shore of the local boating lake

Out of interest, are these 00 or EM?

Sorry, it's already transferred to a new depot allocation

Good bloke runs that place - he's been open since about 1995 and a lot of my collection came through there

that coach box... Webster Developments Co of Quickley Lane, Chorleywood - is about 1km from my front door if it still exists. I could cycle over and have a look.... N2 is a Gaiety. JVM of Birmingham was the casting partner of Castle Art Products who sold the range

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remind me to post pictures of my Wrenn NCB hoppers. Bought from Dapol's mail-order store about a year after Wrenn closed down, they have what seems to be genuine wrenn chassis as well as bodies - and the right chassis - but Dapol couplings.. and came in Dapol boxes. The Dapol coupling being shorter than the Hornby type that Wrenn used, they cant actually be run on curved track as the buffers clash

Mk2D works better with Blue Pullman motor cars as the windows are nearly the right shape

its actually visible on the right hand side in the first photo in this thread, which you posted City & South London Rly tube locomotive 36. Was badly damaged by the bombing and later scrapped as a result

I think the world needs to see the following on a Triang blue pullman; BR Green with SYWP Express maroon Umber & Cream pullman livery If powering it on a modern layout is a problem - Hornby HST chassis (original type) only needs 1/2 of a mm filed off it widthwise to fit in a Triang Blue pullman bodyshell. just cut off the end & middle section and insert on either side of the original Triang underframe - then you can use ringfield power. The Hornby HST motor bogie has a greater resemblance to the BP power bogie than the Triang original anyway

yup, thats definitely the rare one. Pretty much the rarest Triang-Hornby model variant ever made..

Trix used to sell Dublo coupling adapters for triang stock that clip into the anchor for the hook - I've got an SR GUV around here somewhere with some on. Also I Dublo'd up a Hornby 29 just by putting a coupling pivot on the top side of the mount for the tension lock....

lol, minic motorway - yeah I've got some of that too as my first attempt but it was too troublesome, which was why I started using then-new Tyco as a basis. All three of the Minic cars I bought either didnt work or failed pretty quickly. Still got the double-track level crossing with Triang Super-4 track intersecting it, and recently sold a Minic Motorway working motorail terminal with wagon for a nice sum on eBay

Bodyshells now identified - "Scalemaster" - UK, and 1950s - thanks to this website which @sncf231e linked in another thread Heres the original spec

Well I owe you some thanks for linking this A while ago I posted here asking for help identifying 2 tinplate carriages that are in my possession where the maker was unknown to me Several people confirmed what I suspected that the bogies on it were 1950s or 1960s Fleischmann but nobody had ever seen the bodies before Your linked website here has a picture of them and identifies the maker - Scalemaster (Electric toys ltd) Thanks for that. I've been unable to answer this question for nearly 30 years until now

I've been slowly disposing of all but the key items of my excessive model collection for a month or so now and using this forum to help me understand what demand exists for various elements and also to bring myself up to date with the markets and the "new" models that my used sales are competing with i built my collection through the mid to late 1990s and was trying to build an entire world compressed into my parents attic so I had a variety of UK and continental trains running on an extensive circuit and also eventually working road vehicles. Which it felt at the time I was the only person trying to do on a homebrew basis.... I'm slighly surprised there still doesnt seem to be a real scene for this. Faller car system came available at this time but was way beyond my economic reach so my road services were run with Tower Models RT and Olympian buses sitting on Tyco/AFX slot car chassis using a standardised slot-in chassis unit that I made to fit any of my buses, which had the power unit from a F1 slot car on the bottom, a small switch at the front and a battery holder for 2 triple-A 1.5v cells on top and within the body (Also had one that retained its pickups and took power from the slot-car road, this one proved problematic to control) I later also built a London trolleybus by severely hacking 2 Tower Models RT buses that ran off BRAWA/EHEIM trolleybus system catenary, and actually took power from the overhead. This one was always a little problematic,being under more dynamic pressures than the battery-powered RTs and having a more inconsistent power supply. An original BRAWA//EHEIM continental trolleybus also served the same route, rather more reliably.

yeah, Dublo and Maerklin 3-rail track is practically indistinguishable - exact same colours, exact same connections at the ends, only difference is the geometry, the printed branding, and the fact that the Maerklin sleepers are stamped to stand above the printed roadbed and the Dublo ones are flat and just printed on

hmm, it's similar to Maerklin 1930s 3-rail track but not identical. The pressings and the centre rail mounts are similar, not identical, but the colour is wrong and so are the contacts for the 3rd rail ends. is the gauge 16.5mm or 16mm? if its 16mm it's definitely early Maerklin

Thanks everyone. If anyone happens to want this item in their collection please do contact me

>My view is that you should always sell items individually to get the best price. Then buyers can bid for only what they need. Doesnt always apply though. I'm getting higher prices per vehicle when selling bundles of 3 to 9 matching wagons/coaches than selling individually because buyers will place a premium on being able to obtain a matching rake. I think the case you highlight though does apply w/r/t kits and add-on parts

Considering I bought this for some reason 27 years ago when I was 18, and have never run it despite it being complete, I can hardly criticise.

I'm currently downsizing my excessively-sized collection via eBay. The weirdest thing has been the profit on wagons and carriages. Bachmann mineral wagons that I bought for £3.50 each in the mid 1990s are going out for £10 each. And a Lima DMU centre car made £44 last week. I paid that much for a whole DMU ... Locos are going at a loss. But then I'm not doing this to make a profit and I hope their new owners enjoy them.

Thank you!

Good afternoon all Could I tap your collective wisdom again? I bought this around 1996 because I liked the picture on the box and because it somewhat resembled LMS Articulated Railcar 80003 which i had an ambition to model. Its a Piko BR185 railcar in DR colours, complete with original box, original unused detailing parts, original still-folded leaflet and Piko distributor list dated April 1983 I'm going to offer it for sale but know practically nothing about it. I'm assuming from the fact that the paperwork is in German, Russian & Polish that it's East-German manufacture not West. I'd like to know a little about where the prototype was used is the "DR" livery a post-unfortunate-historical-events East German livery or is this a 1930s colour scheme? (I'm not sure if E/Germany railways continued under the old name while the W/Germany ones became DB) Also - is this a rarity or a mass-produced thing I'd find millions of if I looked in the right place? From the look of it its never been run - I've never run it and theres no evidence of dirt or arcing on the wheels. Packaging is factory-fresh too Thanks - Chris

@Andyman7 you should really post a picture of your current DMU & DMU-projects collection as I reckon from various comments you've made that it's getting pretty impressive....