Captain Slough

I was fascinated by Dublo for a while as it was my dad's introduction to the hobby in the 50s, and in the 90s it was pretty cheap. then, having got a working loop of 3-rail track, the temptation to buy Trix Twin started creeping in. Ended up owning... N2 x 2, one 2-rail runner, one 3-rail non-runner. A4, 2-rail, came without a tender and now has a Triang Scotsman tender as a result Duchess - 3-rail non-runner repainted in BR express blue 2-6-4t 3-rail 3x R1s "Gaiety" N2 bodyshell that i always intended to complete with a working Dublo chassis Trix warship Trix GWR 0-6-2T Trix AL1 - this was my most recent loco purchase in about 2006, saw it on eBay described as Triang R753 AL1 despite being mint and boxed, you'd think the box would be a giveaway,I paid £20 for it. GraFar 9400-class GWR pannier, 2-rail about 8 Trix plastic Mk1s in various colours 2 Trix tinplate carriages with internal 3-rail lighting circuits Several Super-Detail Dublo Mk1s Rake of very shabby Dublo pullmans which I converted into an unmotorised Brighton Belle. Never ran right, Dublo pullman bogies were terrible. Eventually it ended up on Lima Mk1 bogies with new plasticard chassis and ran push-pull with 73101 in pullman livery One end of a Trix Transpennine, without bogies. now sitting on Hornby 110 bogies. About 30 Dublo super-detail wagons as these were superior to anything Hornby was selling new in the 90s. and about the same number of Wrenn wagons. Few GraFar suburbans in various colours including one seemingly unused unpainted bodyshell

Yeah. The Cl.104 has lost its underframe on the nonpowered car sometime in its history, but thats easily fixed wiht a Hornby 110 chassis. Thinking of filing these 3 for sale possible after fixing that, as I dont have a need for them & not even 100% sure why I felt the need to buy them 25 years ago

I had moving road traffic in the 1990s... Tyco slot car chassis under plastic 4mm scale kit buses. Even made a working London trolleybus that used Eheim catenary Its possible to do moving vehicles ultra cheap if you are inventive enough. I had lots of time and very little money

Dunno because I thought any Blue Pullman should run well on Code 100 as nearly anything post-1959 and Triang does. I've got examples of all 3 versions of the Triang/Hornby Blue Pullman and none of them were incompatible with code 100 Streamline points Although given that the R156 SR EMU and R157 Met-Cam DMU use the same wheelset types but were introduced 1957 - so early ones dont run code 100 - , its always possible someones swapped wheelsets between an EMU or DMU and a Blue Pullman to get one of those running

We are, and the overall shape of the GWR motor bogie is still closer to the origjnal class 251 than the Triang block is. Although a few seconds work with a file will get it even closer....

Power bogie for a 1980s Lima GWR railcar will fit easily into the Triang bodyshell and looks more like the original bogie than the Triang one does

Here's the LT EMU

These have survived the storage well since I bought them around 1995 i assume they were printed 1930s to 1950s. I have 3 of each, also have 2 copies of a Metropolitan Line CO/CP/R-Stock EMU I built one of the Metropolitan sets and one car of the semifast Southern EMU in the 1990s using a handbuilt balsa wood body and Lima bogies

And the Cravens parcel car

Pics of some well-made MTK DMUs

https://imgur.com/a/D2uzXTF Imgur link to a gallery of images of this vehicle, in case anyone recognises it. Compared in size to a Triang model of the same prototype

Makes me wonder if the similar Trix Twin "Meteor" diesel express was a copy of the Maerklin unit, or vice versa

The school I went to was called Hobbs Hill.... coincidence?

Not sure if already mentioned but there's a still-standing tram shed in Colindale, London NW9, in the bottom (southern) corner of Montrose Park. Findable in Google Maps just by typing "Historic Colindale Tramshed Building"

I'm in possession of a couple of MTK First-Gen DMUs (class 103, Class 129, and something else) built to a decent standard by an unknown builder in the 1990s, all powered by either Lima Cl.117 or Hornby Cl.110 power bogies. Anyone want to see them? Been in my possession since 1997/8, never actually run them. They came to light this week while I was sorting through my collection as it has to move from where its being stored.

HI all Been sorting through some boxes of wagons I bought in the 90s and have had in storage unseen for 20 years and I've found among a load of normal Hornby-Dublo Super-Detail 00-gauge wagons, a GWR Toad brake van made from a seemingly die-cast kit in HO scale. Its got what look like 1960s Markits wheels and Hornby-dublo couplers, it's 2-rail (wheels are insulated) but definitely isnt RTR or 00-gauge,and its too small to be Trix Twin 3.8mm/ft scale either (not sure if they ever did a GWR Toad anyway) Any thoughts as to who made it? No brand on the bottom and its glued together. Can't have been made after about 1998 as its been in my possession since then at the latest, and possibly I've had it since as early as 1994 Kicking myself as didnt think to photograph it and I'm no longer at my storage facility but can get a snap next week if it would help anyone Cheers - Slough