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Interesting - I stripped mine down the other day. I don't know if it's a later or earlier version than yours, but with mine the safety valve is built into the filler. Also, there was no lagging at all between the boiler and the cladding. There's a strong risk that your lagging is asbestos.

Looking back from a few years in the future, It's hard to imagine all of the additions and improvements that were progressively done to the layout? The plated track is still going strong in early 2024.. A great job.. Lots of praise for the hard work..

On the tender with the closed axle boxes, the sleeved wheels sliding on the axles allowed the wheels to move sideways to follow the rail and get around corners? If pin point axles had been used, the 3 sets of wheels would always line up with one another and bind their flanges on a tight corner.. (No sideways movement)? The middle axle wheels would move to one side, as the front and back could move to the other side, lining them up to curved track.... The open axle boxes actually had less friction on a corner because the whole axle with it's wheels could slide sideways.. Remember, that one wheel was tight on the axle to hold the axle in place on the early model, so the entire axle (and wheels could slide sideways in the open bearings .. Both wheels were loose on the enclosed axle and could side freely to each side as required on the later model.. However, If the wheel sleeve got dirty and did not slide easily on the enclosed axles, the tenders would often begin derail on sharp corners?

Nice to see one of these actually working. My dad got one from new, and I never saw him use it. Then about decade later I had a go at firing it. It was 1993 and even by then the gas tank and gas line had perished beyond usability. It could turn its wheels up on blocks, but never got it to move more than a few inches on track. Then to add insult to injury, the left hand piston/con-rod bracket broke! I still have it - up on my mantle shelf - but it'd be nice to restore it some day.

Hello Mr. Snooze. I have not been getting notifications from YT for some time now so I missed this one. Incredible is all I can say about the tin plate set. It is in the best condition of any I have seen from that period. As others have said it looks like you have a search light in the yard. Kind regards, David.

How did you discover the valve was faulty?

God I remember that transformer on my Silver King set in the mid 50s. Engine cast metal. Coaches etc tin sides and roof along with tender.

My Airfix Royal Scot is a beauty. I bought her for £35 and when I got home I found she stuck or derailed on curves and squeeled as she did so. Eventually I discovered and cured her over-wide gauging and serviced and lubricated the motor assembly, and she runs really really sweetly, like she was only manufactured last week.

Nice to see you back again.. I'm 74 and I 'm afraid that I am not running as well as the old train set.. How wonderful to have owned a "toy" with such longevity? No batteries required? Perhaps we need "C.V's" in the future (Clockwork vehicles not E.V's) ..

Thank you sir ; I really enjoyed it !

Green object search light ?

A wonderful set, I can see a repair coming at some point in the future.

Welcome back mr snooze, lovely Finish on the exposed stone walls .And that train set has been well looked after, i agree with others looks like a massive search light on a trailer. All the best cheers bob.

Well, hello Mr Snooze. I was looking at my channel subscriptions the other day and saw yours. I wondered when you would surface again. What a wonderful train set. It must have brought such delight to whoever received it. I hope it was one of those large presents under the Christmas tree. 😊

For some reason I am thinking the green object is a search light ?

Great to see you back Mr S! Great little Engine & set

Had one very similar about 65 years ago. Just got back into Model Trains. Boy have they changed!!

What a lovely item. Sometimes its just fun to get back to basics.

Great to see you back online. What an excellent mixed traffic set you have shown us. Wonderful. The item in the yard. A search light maybe? I have a Super 4 layout now if you have time to check it out. Look forward to seeing more content from you. Stay safe and happy modelling

Your locomotive is very similar to the one I had. It was used until the spring broke!! For a three year old boy like I was in 1960, the clockwork Hornby was the most appropriate thing for me!!

What a wonderful thing to find in the workshop!! I started with railway modelling in 1960 with a nice little train set with clockwork locomotive, two carriages and an oval of 0 gauge track with level crossing.

I was given my first model railway when i was 5 in 1953. It was a Triang shop window display layout. OO electric with 46201 Princess Elisabeth locomotive an d 2 coaches. It was double track with full scenery in coloured bakerlite. It was mounted on a 7 ply board, I had many happy years using it.

1951 sorry

i remember in 195` my father setting up an o gauge train set it had the lner tank but also an lms tender engine we had coaches but no wagons i think but cannot be sure they would have been handme downs from my uncle who was much more wealthy than him

Aha clockwork, I do declare you're winding us up lol. Very enjoyable.

If I had to hazard a guess, the mysterious green object lurking in your backyard is a spotlight or searchlight of kind. If I’m correct, do I get cookies? Nice to see you back with a new video, seems like you’ve been busy!

Hi, I am an retired exile living in TX. I recently found my son's Triang train set that I got him some 50 years ago and am resurrecting? it. My stock of Super 4 points is VERY limited (ebay) and operation is hit or miss. Your video intrigued me as some of my points have the same affliction as the one's you scrapped. I used to be pretty good at soldering, I was in electronics, and wondered if anyone had ever tried to solder a wire from the short rails to the copper strips underneath. This would bypass the bad contact. Thoughts anyone?

My worn out brush arms have a square hole in the end if I remove the old solder. I have recently made carbon brushes like yours but slightly thicker front to back. I ground away the back edge to form a square of carbon that matched the size of the hole horizontally but would stick out vertically at the rear of the arm. I used a small amount of Super Glue on the inside of the arm to stick the brush in place (carefully avoiding the edges of the square that goes through the brush). When the glue dried I then ran solder around the rear of the brush arm to make contact with the vertical square to provide electrical contact. Working OK at present but do not know what sort of life expectancy the repaired brushes will have.

I have had the Hornby model of this since 1958 ,i have just tried to service it its running but niw got to look at either a neo magnet or get it re magnetised .

great video, fantastic project

We have one, we had it running a couple of years ago. but it was a bit temperamental. Think we had the wrong pil in the cylinders?

Hello wondering where you connected each end of the wire!

Thank you! Most interesting, and it brought back many memories. I got this train set for Christmas 1959, when it was brand new on the market, as your brochure indicates. The coaches in my set were "blood and custard" rather than maroon. Also, the coaches and tender had metal couplings - not the plastic shown here. The only other differences I can see are that in 1959 there was no suppressor fitted to the power supply rail, and Hornby did not at that time supply the small spanner required to gain access to the loco motor. I had the Marshall 2 PSU which had 2 outputs - 12 v DC, and 15 v AC for points and signals. Eventually, I had a layout with various points and sidings, another 0-6-2 loco (BR no 69550), and more rolling stock including a breakdown crane and the Travelling Post Office. All this on a weyroc base board 6' x 4' which my mum (the techie expert in my family!) got from the local joiner. I remember I had great problems in getting the TPO to work. Instructions said to use the 15v AC output from the PSU, but that didn't work. Problem eventually solved by using an Ever Ready 9v grid bias battery (does anyone here remember them?) from the local radio shop.

Your videos are a goldmine of information.

Sunny Sunday deserves some fun fun fun on the railway, great video Ktf J

Just ordered a Airfix motor to have a go at this on my Triang EM2 I have just bought for a project! Re soldering sounds a bit fiddly but do-able! Thanks for the video for inspiration.

another great video, thank you

Lovely to see both versions of the Lord of the Isles MrSnooze. Very impressive smooth runner - think the gloss version is the better one but as you say it’s down to personal preference!

They both looks good 👍🏻

Snooze. No falling asleep on the roof. Cannot remember ever seeing a bogie pickup on a classic period Triang/hornby steamer??????? I believe the Budd car was investigated for trailing bogie pickup. For many of us classical Triang/TH represented an unkept promise, though in my operating environment assessment is more complicated. You have worked wonders. I wonder how your system would go without the plating? Another problem was lack of traction on non-maghes models. On a gradient the loading was not much. A situation I am still looking into is the red and silver diesel/Alco road switcher. Both had the same pressed steel frame mounting the same power truck and trailer, and both skidded under reasonable load. The Blue and Gold R159 VR B class had the same bogies but plastic chassis which doubled as the shell. It easily outpulled the metal one. Adding weight did nothing for the metal framed models; can't remember clearly on the 159, but think it did improve things. Expectation would be that the gain on traction would out-benefit the drag on the trailer which would be mollified by the rolling bearings. It is not as if we were cold turkey dragging the thing. The dock shunter with the same power bogie (to use a Biblical idiom borrowed by Iain Rice in a not dissimilar context) 'is a wolf in sheep's clothing'. HIs context was an 0-4-0 which would outpull ANYTHING on the layout. Maghes was a great innovation. There was at least one other motor released by Rovex: a 2/3 or thereabouts miniature X-04 lookalike. I knew it as a slot car motor. The X0-4 was also used on many slotcars. I don't know if it is true, but I heard STC mentioned in relation to the astounding quality of components. Interesting. Guy Williams used X0-4 motors for Pendon. Take a break mate; you've enough problems falling off roofs without keeping up with us. Guess where an awful lot of the Spinal Unit patients in hospitals 'come' from. Best to you and Mrs. Snooze.

Thank you for the enjoyable video! I've been collecting the Nellie type over the past few years, having fond memories of running the original Nellie as a child. I've managed to find a few examples of the black versions (R359), the oldest having the gold crest, as in your brochure, later ones having a BR transfer. There were some produced without any printing, or buffer beam red, or whistle - must have saved Triang many pence! They are difficult to find in good condition, most having been enjoyed by children at the time. Love the Lord of the Isles models 👍🏻

Very enjoyable video, thank you, I don’t think I have ever seen Lord of Isles in the flesh so it was interesting to see yours.

Great episode, interesting detail regarding the motors. Don’t fall off the roof 😉 safety first

If you look at the front of that Hornby catalogue the train is crossing Westminster Bridge which is not a rail crossing! Artistic licence or just bad checking?

Great video, I have 4 “Lord of the Isles “ locomotives. 3 from the 60’s and a modern version. Whilst the newest one has an excellent paint job, the old ones out perform it with speed and pulling ability. Looking forward to the video on replacing the smoke pipe.

Very enjoyable. The 'Lord Of The Isles' is so lavishly decorated. The excellent cab detail is just crying out to be finessed. Tri-ang went all out with it and the recent Hornby releases of the same body shell are barely any more interesting if at all (apart from the extra pickups). It's always transporting to look through a catalogue so thank you for that, and nice to see the Ivatt again too. 😊

Super video, many thanks.

A lovely model indeed Mr. Snooze. I bought mine at the TTS in Leicester in 2019 and must confess that I have only test run it once and have yet to remove the body shell. I can only assume that there is an XT 60 motor in there but I have yet to handle one. So much to do. Take care working on those sky-lights. Regards, David.

Lovely video, I do love the Loti, got one of the glossy ones, oddly the little R455 I recently got gifted me I'm sure has a Loti dome! Did you catch the video?

Thoroughly enjoyed looking at the catalogue... thank you 🙏🇳🇿