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• Locomotive Southern 1759, No.2 Special (Hornby Series)
  ...loco range launched in 1929, this example is from the 1930's as evidenced by the updated numbering on its tender. ...sful modifications then ended up being retrofitted to the existing L Class locos.
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• Flying Scotsman presentation set 4-344 (Trix Twin Railways)
  ...ain)|Flying Scotsman]] [[TTR Presentation Sets|presentation set]]''' made by [[Trix|Trix Twin Railways (TTR)]] in 1939. ...g Scotsman (LNER)", both of which have been expressly designed and created by the firm of Bassett-Lowke Ltd. for this railway. To go with these expresses
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• Category:Lone Star Treble-O-Lectric
  After [[Lone Star]]'s initial range of push-along toy trains, "'''[[Lone Star Locos]]'''", the company produced a further generation of "[[000-gauge]]" trains ...are also in preparation. |Author=News Special|Publication=Railway Modeller|Date=January 1963}}
  11 members (0 subcategories, 10 files) - 10:44, 21 August 2021
• Tank locomotive 492 (Hornby No.2 Special Tank Locomotive)
  ...ition) is currently listed as being over three and a half thousand pounds. By contrast, the GWR version (in green) lists at about a tenth of that price i ...supposed to have dropped the "E" from "E492" , so this loco would seem to date from 1933.
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• Category:Romford Model Ltd
  ...) could also be motorised to turn them into "proper" working model railway locos. ...g these motors less servicable. While this wasn't a problem for commercial locos (if an owner ran their loco into the ground they could always buy another o
  0 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:42, 18 November 2017
• Category:Märklin for Bassett-Lowke
  ...ursor Tank locomotive in gauges 0 and 1, presumably the model made for B-L by Märklin. The image shows a ''real'' Precursor tank loco rather than the mo '''Bassett-Lowke locomotives made by Märklin'''.
  9 members (0 subcategories, 6 files) - 10:57, 15 August 2017
• Category:Märklin model railways
  ...s a slow and laborious business. These conditions improved so rapidly that by 1900 the Marklin rail system was in design and construction, very similar t ...lin then commenced to make engines and accessories by machinery instead of by hand as previously.
  846 members (12 subcategories, 739 files) - 16:28, 26 July 2017
• Category:Cornish Riviera Express
  ...e, if you wanted to visit Cornwall, the only way to get there by train was by using the GWR ... By a happy accident, the GWR had obtained a French compound locomotive (''La F
  9 members (0 subcategories, 8 files) - 13:44, 15 June 2018
• Steam powered 4-4-0 model locomotive (Bowman Models 234)
  ...twork.jpg|"183 Miles!" – Bowman artwork celebrating the distance travelled by a Bowman 234 during the 1926 British Industries Fair|380}} ...odel "locomotive with [[Flying Scotsman]] [[LNER]] 4472" markings''', made by [[Bowman Models]].
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• Category:CCW Productions
  ...correct, and exact details of the company's origins are difficult to come by – if an original founder ''had'' contributed a letter and then left, that ...oduce the outstanding model.|Author=CCW|Publication=The Model Railway News|Date=February 1950}}
  1 member (0 subcategories, 1 file) - 22:57, 26 March 2020
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  :Although it's a charity, the Museum is independently run, and isn't owned by the Council. The money to run the Museum doesn't come from your council tax ::: Some of the locos are powered by three-rail track, and some by two-rail. Most of the layout isn't designed to be run "unsupervised".
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• Stephenson Tank Locomotive SR 329, gauge 1 (Märklin TK1021)
  ...4 as model number '''D300''' ('''Kat. Nr TK1021'''). This example was sold by [[Gamages|A.W. Gamage]] in the late 1920s. ...ld appear to be a typo – we have a catalogue entry for it that was current by 1925.
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• Category:Lone Star
  ...dren's enthusiasm for playing "Cowboys and Indians" after the war (fuelled by Hollywood films) created a demand for diecast toy cap-firing guns, which DC ...xing situation of a train set made by a British company with British-style locos and rolling stock being marketed to British families under an American-soun
  60 members (4 subcategories, 54 files) - 16:15, 18 April 2024
• Flying Scotsman locomotive, gauge 0, LNER 4472 (Bassett-Lowke)
  ...[[gauge 0]] '''locomotive 4472 ''[[Flying Scotsman]]'' and tender''', made by [[Bassett-Lowke]] in the 1930s. ...he red LMS ''Royal Scot'', and Bassett-Lowke promoted their models of both locos together, offering them as a simple choice depending on whether you wanted
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• Category:Graham Farish
  ...ange of engineering-based "odds and sods", capitalising on the radio craze by selling radio components for home constructors. When the enthusiasm for hom The range of points produced by Graham Farish is very comprehensive, and includes a double slip, single sl
  51 members (2 subcategories, 47 files) - 10:33, 7 July 2022
• Category:Playcraft Railways
  {{Box|Playcraft_Railways,_advert_(MM_1966-12).jpg|1966: "''It's Cheaper by PLAYCRAFT Rail''", full-page advert|380}} The '''Playcraft Railways''' range, manufactured in France by [[Jouef]] for [[Playcraft]] in the UK, was launched in around ~1961.
  10 members (1 subcategory, 9 files) - 17:49, 26 January 2019
• Category:Metropolitan Railway
  ...ut even with special steam condensers and spark-catchers designed into the locos, steam travel underground was not ideal, and in 1905 the Metropolitan intro ...imum of cost.|Author=Metropolitan Railway|Publication=The Railway Magazine|Date=May 1928}}
  18 members (2 subcategories, 12 files) - 14:14, 3 September 2021
• Stirling Single locomotive 2.5" gauge (Georges Carette)
  ...atrick Stirling's GNR [[4-2-2]] "[[Stirling Single]]" locomotive''', made by [[Carette]], dating from around 1900-1903. This model was in a rather sorry state when it was rescued by Michael Edwards, who then organised and paid for its restoration to display
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• Category:Trix
  ...r developed than the early half-size locos and sets that had been trialled by the Bing company. ...with '''J. Haffner''''s in 1925, and the Fortner-Hafner company was bought by the group, moving to larger Nuremburg premises in 1929. An early major prod
  127 members (6 subcategories, 96 files) - 00:37, 24 January 2016
• Category:Airfix Railway Construction Kits
  ...ratively cheap way of building up their layout displays, either for static locos and rolling stock to be parked on sidings, or as rolling rolling-stock to b ...further kits and the '''[[Airfix Railway System]]''' range of ready-built locos and rolling stock, starting with the Airfix version of the Kitmaster Prairi
  36 members (2 subcategories, 34 files) - 10:24, 7 July 2022

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