Hi John, thank you for a very nostalgic look through those catalogues. The internet just doesn't have the same appeal. I remember eagerly awaiting each year's catalogue, then spending hours making "wish lists" of items I wanted to add to my collection. You mention the reference to the "new" mark 3 couplings still being quoted as such. these were first introduced for the 1959 season of models. One of my pet collecting habits is to find almost identical models from the changeover period sporting both the earlier mark 2a couplings and also the mark3 type. Still have a few to find though! The new for '62 Brush type 2 A1A-A1A diesel loco was a lovely model, and now sought after as only around 4000 were produced in blue before changing to the usual Green. At the time the modelling press praised the loco, but did wonder why Tri-ang had chosen to model it on the only blue example on British Railways which carried this experimental blue livery. The early follow on green version carried the same running number as the blue, D5578, before changing to the long running D5572. Later in Tri-ang Hornby days, the model became first a more electric blue, then Rail blue, before returning tin gloss green along with extra electrical pick ups on the non-powered bogie. At this time the body moulding was also slightly modified, deleting one of the body side steps. Imagine pouring over the '62 catalogue, and dreaming of a large Tri-ang layout using the two styles of buildings and all the different Rolling stock available. Alas at the time, most of us could only dream of such a layout. Thank you for a wonderful wallow in a bygone time, yes which I think was far better than today.
Browsing through old catalogues always feels a bit like opening a portal to a parallel world, you could get lost in them easily. A website just can't reproduce that.
Webpages just don't have the "Wow factor", or the vehicles😞👍👍
Always a great time looking through the catalogues
Hi John, thank you for a very nostalgic look through those catalogues. The internet just doesn't have the same appeal.
I remember eagerly awaiting each year's catalogue, then spending hours making "wish lists" of items I wanted to add to my collection.
You mention the reference to the "new" mark 3 couplings still being quoted as such. these were first introduced for the 1959 season of models. One of my pet collecting habits is to find almost identical models from the changeover period sporting both the earlier mark 2a couplings and also the mark3 type. Still have a few to find though!
The new for '62 Brush type 2 A1A-A1A diesel loco was a lovely model, and now sought after as only around 4000 were produced in blue before changing to the usual Green. At the time the modelling press praised the loco, but did wonder why Tri-ang had chosen to model it on the only blue example on British Railways which carried this experimental blue livery. The early follow on green version carried the same running number as the blue, D5578, before changing to the long running D5572. Later in Tri-ang Hornby days, the model became first a more electric blue, then Rail blue, before returning tin gloss green along with extra electrical pick ups on the non-powered bogie. At this time the body moulding was also slightly modified, deleting one of the body side steps.
Imagine pouring over the '62 catalogue, and dreaming of a large Tri-ang layout using the two styles of buildings and all the different Rolling stock available. Alas at the time, most of us could only dream of such a layout.
Thank you for a wonderful wallow in a bygone time, yes which I think was far better than today.
Yes the Brush type 2 was a great model ,and still is !
The front cover of these catalogues always had a mouse hidden somewhere
Browsing through old catalogues always feels a bit like opening a portal to a parallel world, you could get lost in them easily.
A website just can't reproduce that.