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I had this exact set in early 1970 s. Best present I ever had my dad made a great layout and the cataloge sent us 2 sets by accident it was great . I remember looking under the front room door gap and saw this train on a great layout tunnels and a staton . Different controller. I had light grey controller with red speed turner .

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Hello Paul - I already the Hornby P2 'Prince of Wales - but after Pre-ordering back in 2022 & only got earlier this yeah - I found out that it was Digital & I only do Analogue - I only got it b/c of the Steam Generator - which I can't use until if & when I go digital!!! I already have the Tornado for many years - The Hornby version but be careful b/c I found out that the both of the Smoke Deflectors break off easily!!! Loving for real Wood burning Stove - Looks really warm 🙂🚂🚂🚂

I had the silver jubilee Pullman in 1977 I wanted the diesel

I got the same set for Christmas in the 70's, the coaches had internal lights so I ran it with the room lights turned off

Wow i had this exact same set when i was a 10yr old back in 1976 i absolutely loved it and its fantastic to see it again.

Nice one thanks Patrick Quinn IRL

Hi, enjoyed seeing your experience with this model. Ive only had mine on DC, and its spent many, many hours just running in on the rolling road. It does get better because of it. May I suggest oiling the moving parts of the mechanism, including the four long rods that go through the running board. Others have experienced squeaking as the rods 'scrape' the running board. I did oil my and its been fine, no squeaking. Will look forward to further running shots in the future.

I had this back in about 75 I am now 65 and sold it for £75 10 years ago

Brilliant nice to see that train set again.. my brother got that set for his Christmas back in the 70s

It brings back the image of what Christmas really meant. Wonderful nostalgia. The 1970s was a wonderful decade.

My brother had this set....loved watching the mail bag get collected.

What a wonderful channel! So many memories of my childhood and memories of my dad who loved model railways. He sold all of our rolling stock and models back in the 90s which makes me sad now. I still have all the board mounted track. Subbed ❤

Suggest unboxing on a towel or blanket to cut harsh noise. Meant constructively

Worth a fortune now

Still got this in the loft from around 1975,the same 3 coaches plus a sleeper car and 1st class coach.think the class 37 may need attention,not run for 30 years or more.great memories and a great video btw

I remember them mail coaches in the 70's at Euston and Kings Cross for the Midlands and Scotland fast mails. There was a complicated set of signals between drivers sounding a horn code and a bell in the mail coach being "get ready" and "deploy" or "snatch" and sometimes both deploy and catch where the depositing bag would be caught at the same time as the coach net snagged the onward mail bag. They were all but a memory by time the eighties came along with the midland and Scottish traffic being handled by overnight TPO's and only main line stations took parcels and letters traffic and that got chucked in the brake locked up in the bond cage. On the SR when a unit didn't have a bond cage in the brake, a driver would tell the guard to dig out the RM stickers and lock off the first half of a coach with Royal Mail paper tickets in the windows which carried the same penalties of interference or attempt to steal as any post office vehicle. On something like a CEP or VEP the guard would lock the mail into one of the sliding door compartments mainly to get up the noses of the posties and also laziness as needing only to lick one sticker for the slidey door and a quick turn of the no 2 key even though the units had extra large bond cages. What was funny is the ol' No 2 key is a square key the same size as virtually every square shafted home door lock, one notorious fare jumper used to have a wad of "out of use" paper stickers and would apply one to a toilet door and using a door knob lock himself in and not get asked for a ticket hehe

I was given that exact train set for Christmas 1974. Now sadly long gone.

I SO wanted this set. I had the mail train coach and track side stuff but must've got it separately. Mine ended being hauled by a 47. Probably not factually correct 😂

may i ask what the value of this in such nice condition would be in todays market

I wanted this for Christmas 1976. I got the F1 Aurora racing set (James Hunt/Niki Lauder). I think at the time, I was happy. On reflection, I may have happier with this.

Still got this in the loft! 🙂

I had this set. I got it in 1977.

Most memorable Christmas present I received was a hornby train set.

I had this for either birthday or Christmas in the 70’s, hours of joy ❤

I had this set when I was a kid.

Happy memories, this was my first ever train set. In my 9th birthday in May 1977. I still have it. Not as mint as yours.

That’s absolutely fantastic. Me and my brother had that set. It would’ve been around 1977. I was 10 years old. We had hours and hours of fun with it. Thanks for sharing. I know what happened to it. Our one was sold if only we’ve kept it never mind hindsight is a wonderful thing.

My goodness, that's exactly the one I had way back in the 70s

Got this same set for Christmas around 1975

Fantastic! This was my first train set i received as a kid. I still have a layout nearly 50 years later (though N gauge these days).

This was my very first train set!!!!!!!!!!!!

I already had quite a big permanent layout when I received this set for Xmas, purely for the loco and carriage 'package' - I remember the mail coach working very well but unfortunately something broke on the class 37 not too long into its life and I wasn't able to use it again - I could have fixed it nowadays, but I was quite young at the time. Thanks for the memory.

got that set for xmas one year loved it

I bought my son a train set for Christmas about 15 years back he would have been about 7yrs old, when some of our friends come over in the Christmas holiday there young kids were more interested in playing with the train set rather than the PlayStation, it just proved kids do love train sets.

Love this old Triang Hornby railway products.They have character something that the super detailed products of today seem to lack.

My Dad bought us this in around 1974 when we lived in Kent and then moved to Suffolk. I think he said he got it pre-owned but hardly used from a colleague at Trinity House where he worked. I distinctly remember the little hook/bucket and all the little red mailbags. We still have those green tunnel ends and those standard MK2 carriages.

I had one when in I think 1976. 1977

I liked that.......a lot 👍

this was my starter set (more or less) in the early 70's, which I sold on along with my other ralway stuff by the end of that decade, fast forward 40 years and I got back into trains and you guessed it I got myself a mail set (not this one) because you know....

I had the mail coach in the early 60’s but it was dark red.

British train set, American style mail coach

This was my first train set, wow I relived a few memories there!! Great stuff.

This is what I had great memories of

Great purchase there and lovely to see some older stuff running

Triang first produced the moulding for the tpo in the 50s , and hornby used the same moulding in the 70s. Only change was gray actuator track bars for series 3 and super 4. And brown actuator bars for series 6 track.

I had this set when I was young, many years later I worked on class 37's and Royal Mail TPO's

The Passenger coaches are Hornby's BR MK2 I bought two as a kid in the 70s and still have them. I'm not sure what the mail coach is based upon.

Did you not give it a drop of Oil...?

That was my 1st Train SET in 1976...I think..