Briti***inplate

[Anonymous]

I had a Bassett Lowke Clockwork Duke of York locomotive, but my layout is a large overhead loop in my living room and clockwork drives might make it around the loop once or almost twice, not real fun having to reach up and wind her up again. I want electric driven British locos.

[Anonymous]

I haven't as of yet, but would like to. Paticularily Clockwork.

[Anonymous]

I wouldnt call the prices in line, with top end stuff you get sound, digital control ect, with the new Bassett Lowke you just get a really pretty tinplate train. The cheapest I have found the Royal Scot locomotive is 599 in UK pound sterling. Thats over $1000 us. I would be happier with a price under 1k us dollers. Cheers Mike

[Anonymous]

I run Hornby Trains along with US trains on the same layout. It is quite successful and they all work fine together. Perhaps a little incongruous but they are toy trains after all.
The new offerings from ACE and B-L are excellent, and even with the lousy exchange rate, not too badly out of line with the expensive US offerings.
3rd Rail will have the Flying Scotsman next year for around $1600 which is about twice as much as the other brands.

[Anonymous]

Well I put my Marklin up for sale on Ebay, I would like to get one of the rebuilt royal scots that Bassett Lowke is currently making, or one of the Ace Trains Sir Nigel Gresley steamlined pacifics. Both are quite expensive for what they are, but part of that is the poor value of the US doller against the UK pound sterling. Cheers Mike

[daan]

@ sask, I didn't expect this.. tri-ang is known to make good realistic models in 00. this is like Faller e-train or the cheap JEP stuff.
Anyway, if it's the odd one out, it's collectible.
I also have a few real scale passenger cars (wood) with die cast highly detailed trucks. They are a sleeping wagon and a normal one and where made just after the second world war because of the shortage of metal at that time..
To the looks I think it's basset-lowke, but since there is no brand on it, I can't really place it.. Picked them up at a show about 15 years ago..
They are almost 60cm in length.. in 0 gauge.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by daan

I think Triang has made some 0 models as well, they are mostly known for their 00 models.

Yes, Tri-ang did make some O gauge trains. They were called Big Big Trains. They were all plastic and battery powered and geared toward younger children. They came in very bright colours, but are actually quite detailed. They were manufacturered from 1966 until 1972. Then, in 1975, a Russian company called Novo bought the tooling from Tri-ang and made them again until 1980. They are very collectable now and quite valuable. I own a Big Big model of a British Railways Hymek diesel locomotive as well as a train set that was copied from Tri-ang Big Big and made by a company called American Machine and Foundry.

Check out this website for pictures and more information: http://www.tri-ang.co.uk/BigBig/bbtlist.htm

[daan]

In briti***inplate you also have meccano. It's originally from the metal building boxes, but Hornby used the name meccano for some time. I think Triang has made some 0 models as well, they are mostly known for their 00 models. The cheapest ones come from Hornby, the more expensive ones are from bassetlowke, but they are less toy-train. Bassetlowke made detailed up to scale trains when others still made tinplate toy's. I don't know what the market is like today, I'ld try e-bay, or in Holland, www.marktplaats.nl is a marketsite where 0 gauge tinplate is sold frequently. Search for "speelgoed" and "modeltreinen". Or "verzamelen" and "spoorwegen"..
the best shot you can get is finding an english site...

[BR60103]

I'm not running any (except Dublo), but my friend had a nearly mint Hornby O gauge tank passenger set for sale. Tempting, but I didn't get.

[Bob Keller]

Speaking of new Briti***inplate....

Last we we received the LNER A4 Mallard from Ace Trains (via Weaver - which is handling US trade sales for Ace). It is a beautiful locomotive with a die-cast metal shell and two (yes, two) can motors. I've got a terrific shot as our lead product news photo in the February issue, but I won't be able to work it into reviews until the May issue.

[cnw1995]

The Briti***inplate engines and rolling stock featured in recent CTTs look wonderful - though pretty expensive - given the exchange rate.

[Anonymous]

I have some Briti***inplate trains and accessories in my collection. I have some Hornby O gauge items as well as some Brimtoy and Mettoy clockwork trains from the 50's. I have them all displayed on my layout, although being that they're all clockwork, they're just for show rather than operating.

[Anonymous]

All European, Brand New Class 01.10 super pacific with sound and c-sine motor, marklin 39013. A first class all metal passenger coach, double wine barrel car, low sided gondola, and a box car, and a bunch of C track, 99% of it is basicly brand new, includes 3 powered LH turnouts, 3 powered RH turnouts, one LH curved manual turnout, one RH curved Manual turnout, Brand New Marklin Digital mobile station controler with cables and adapter track. The locomotive and track is new, the passenger car is from the mid 80's and the freight cars are from the 50's-60's i think. I can get a full inventory of all the track and train model numbers if your interested, just dont have the time at the moment, have to leave for work in a few min. Cheers Mike

[Anonymous]

What kind of Marklin do you have for sale, American or European?

[Anonymous]

Anybody else here running Briti***inplate trains, bassett lowke, hornby, ect. I looking to sell my Marklin HO trains and get a nice Bassett Lowke engine and passenger train to run on my Engli***hemed christmas layout. Cheers Mike