Hornby’s R.763 Ex Caledonian and visit to TCS Show Leicester March 2024 & New Items

Hornby’s R.763 Ex Caledonian locomotive from the earl 1980s and a visit to Train Collectors Society Show Leicester 16th March 2024 with a look over new Items picked up on the day. All dates approximate.
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[@rodericfindlay4147]

All very interesting. Wonderful variety today. Thank you.

[@martinhall60]

Good morning Oscar it's Martin from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Thank you for another wonderful video, the Caledonian locomotive and coaches look extremely impressive together and they all run smoothly together. The model railway show was very interesting as well, it was great to see how many different layouts there was. I recently went to the garden centre which is only a few miles from where I live and bought a metal Hornby Dublo bridge for £5. I now have two of them. It was interesting to see the collection of wagons and track you bought at the show, it's amazing how many different variations of rolling stock have been produced over the years. But I think your collection is just amazing. I also like the tunnel as well, it looks great on the railway. Well its time for my tea and toasted tea cake ☕. Thank you once again for a lovely video Oscar and ill see you next Sunday. Keep safe and have a good week ahead 🙂👍🚂

[@oscarpaisley]

Good afternoon Martin thanks again for look in, great to hear you enjoyed the video of the show. It was a terrific day out. Sounds like you had a great visit to the garden centre coming away with another bridge.. I wish my local garden centre had an antique centre.. All the best. Oscar Oscar

[@martinhall60]

@@oscarpaisley Hello Oscar, it's Martin from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It's great to be talking to you on a Monday afternoon, it would be great to see you at a model railway exhibition somewhere and to say hello in person. You would laugh if you saw me watching your videos, I only have my mobile phone and I hold a large magnifying glass in front so I can get a bigger picture of your wonderful videos. My son calls me a technical dinosaur, Lol. But he is a good lad and I am very proud of him, and he loves your railway as well. Keep safe Oscar and I will be watching next Sunday. 🙂👍🚂☕

[@OOElectronics]

Great video as always. I have CR123 and the 14010. Running on Peco NS track with no magnahesion results in poor running both in terms of power connectivity and traction. I opted to put tender pickups on both and also found a front bogie from somewhere with pickups for 14010. These modifications transformed the models on my layout. Best wishes.

[@oscarpaisley]

Hi, thanks for looking in. It was an optimistic design for the time especially relying on pick up from just those wheels, those sounds like terrific modifications you've made. All the best. Oscar

[@gregduck7455]

Thanks for your latest video, love it. Don't apologise if your videos are longer than you'd like. I say the longer, the better. This video has great content, I like how you explained your wiring with your 3 rail Hornby Dublo trackage. Really cool to see the layouts at the Leicester show, wow. The Calendonian single giant wheel Hornby model you ran was great stuff. Also enjoyed you showing what you aquired at the Leicester show. Best regards from your number one fan in British Columbia, Canada.

[@oscarpaisley]

Good evening Greg great to hear enjoyed that it was a terrific day out at the show. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and the kind words. All the best. Oscar

[@factorylad5071]

I like the way you have fixed the the track tou have a clear knowledge Oscar.

[@eddyweller4503]

Good morning Oscar, that was a interesting start, glad you managed to sort out what was going on with the wiring, i know sometimes when i get something in my head that it should work its hard to unlearn and start again. That looked like a good show, i enjoyed seeing the mono rail, looked like a bit of fun. You did quite well with your purchases i love excitement and enthusiasm in your voice when you're showing of your finds. I've had a nice surprise this week, a friend in work lost her father a couple of years ago, and every so often when she goes to see her mum, she brings me something she's found, this time it was a Triang Princess Victoria in br black early version, unfortunately no tender but says she'll look next time she's home. And a very beautiful Triang Britannia again in BR but green. Im looking forward to cleaning and servicing these and see ir i can get them to work. Enjoy your new bits, see you next week. Eddy xxx

[@oscarpaisley]

Good evening Eddy the wiring made my head hurt a bit to start with, then when I suddenly realised my mistake. It was quite simple to put it right just a little inconvenient, but definitely all part of the fun of developing a model/toy railway, sounds like some great items you acquired hopefully the tender will show up soon, or keep an eye on the well-known auction site for the relevant tender, shouldn't be too difficult to find in reasonable condition. Thanks again all the best. Oscar

[@gordontaylor1483]

Hi Oscar, Always good to sort out a problem and sometimes it takes a few attempts and fresh looks. Great box of goodies from the show and lovely Jinty in maroon. These converter tracks are gems. The 4-4-2 is a bit special with these lovely coaches. I’m fiddling around with a shuttle at the moment, 08 shunter and car transporter at one end and unloading bay at the other end, all good stuff 😀. Gordon

[@oscarpaisley]

Afternoon Gordon the shuttle sounds like good fun. I was quite surprised when I discovered my mistake with wiring, a simple error, even more surprised it took so long to find it with the lack of functionality, All the best. Oscar

[@l1a146]

Buying something just because it has a nice box. I thought it was only me did that. 🤣 As for the slightly longer videos, I certainly dont mind. I could watch them for ages.

[@oscarpaisley]

I knew I couldn't be the only one.. Thanks for watching and the kind words very much appreciated. Oscar

[@ScreamingLordStokes]

Hi Oscar, what a bumper video full of interesting content! Super footage from the TCS show, some really amazing models on display; the overhead monorail system was fascinating. You certainly came from the show away with some wonderful items, i would be the same you have to get things while you have the opportunity don't you. What a fabulous model the Ex Caledonian single is, it sounds lovely and seems to run well at slow speeds. Those 'deluxe' tunnels were what I aspired to when I got my first Hornby sets with the cardboard printed tunnel with the plastic ends!😊 Regards, Antony.

[@oscarpaisley]

Good evening Antony glad you enjoyed the footage from the show. Some really fascinating items to look at, the monorail was a lovely bit of engineering in action. When you look at these things now, you can't believe they were actually sold as toys to begin with. All the best. Oscar

[@michaelstaley2241]

Hi Oscar. Lot’s of varied stuff in Leicester. Very interesting I like your railway but nice to see LNER locomotives southern locomotives.. cheers for now

[@trainsontuesday]

I am so envious when you go to a TCS in Leicester Oscar and this time you certainly came away with a good haul of items. I have never seen those converter rails before and must confess that I am at a loss as to how they were intended to function. Those coaches look so right that they must have been intended to run with that loco, either that or it was a happy accident. Thank you again fr yet another marvelous Sunday video. Regards, David.

[@oscarpaisley]

Thanks David glad you enjoyed that. It was a terrific day out, those rails are quite intriguing my understanding is that you would be able to join what was called Universal track to standard track. The coaches look terrific that single wheeler I'm going to have to keep an eye out to see if there is a standard coach to go between the two brakes. All the best. Oscar

[@cameronpatterson1045]

Good Morning to you Oscar from Glasgow another great video from you Sir I've got the Calay Singil in Blue

[@oscarpaisley]

Good afternoon Cameron thanks for looking in. Great to hear you have a blue Caledonian single in your collection. All the best. Oscar

[@stevenperry7493]

Good morning Oscar what an interesting video this week . I must say you do pick up some bargains at rail shows ,,very nice items .i was very impressed with your Caledonian stock .😊looking forward to the next time .😊Suffolk .

[@oscarpaisley]

Thank you, Stephen. Great to hear you enjoyed that and a look over the new items. All the best. Oscar

[@roystudds1944]

Great video as always Oscar. You did well at the exhibition, some great coverage of that. I love that Ex Caledonian loco. It runs really nicely when the points are set correctly. (Sorry, couldn’t resist) Thanks for sharing. Roy.

[@oscarpaisley]

Afternoon Roy thanks for looking in. Tricky things points! I'm sure they have it in for me. All the best. Oscar

[@tabletop_railway]

Lots of interesting things today, I really liked the tin plate “gondola” car suspended from the high rail at the TCS meet. I have one of those Triang bogie wagons with log load, my log looks like someone sawed a section from a Margate factory broom handle.. looks like they improvised those log loads from anything to hand !

[@oscarpaisley]

Hi, thanks for looking in. The Gondola car was lovely item, proper engineering in action. Think you may be right about the log load, anything to hand. All the best. Oscar

[@robinmathews2446]

You must have enjoyed the show.. I'm sure that I would have? A great haul of goodies that you bought home too? My one of my first Well wagons was the R 213 with the crane. Sadly the crane warped and was thrown away many, many years ago. It was red and white, if I remember that far back (to the late 50s)? I have just been working on a couple of R118 Well wagons for my grandson. Pressed the axles out and freed the wheels. Having a young enthusiastic grandson to work under the layout is wonderful? I'm too old for crawling under layouts these days.. I did not realise just how many optional tracks that you had through the 3 rail station area? A lot of planning there? Nice to see it working as you wanted? Take care, Rob from down under, down under....

[@oscarpaisley]

Good evening Robin I definitely did enjoy the show, Great to hear you had one of these cranes to play with, amazingly the mechanism still functions in the crane but the cab is very wobbly on the base. I think it's better left sitting on the wagon. I've got most of these wagons cleaned up now. Will have to get them on railway soon. Great to hear you grandson is willing to do the crawling under the railway for you. I'm not sure my son would be so helpful.. All the best. Oscar

[@davidstrains4910]

A good video on this model Oscar, looks to be quite a nice model, I do like the clerestory coaches in that livery though, the really do look great, good to see more trains running, the bulleid West Country is a favourite of mine, keep up the great work Oscar.

[@oscarpaisley]

Thanks David. Glad you like to look at those coaches. It's great to hear you're enjoying the videos. Take care. Oscar

[@mytinplaterailway]

The TCS event on June 1st should be spectacular - it was last year.

[@oscarpaisley]

Hi, I was lucky enough to be there last year, a wonderful day out. I'm not so sure I'll get the opportunity this time around sadly.. All the best. Oscar

[@PaulinesPastimes]

The train show was so interesting. That huge layout at the beginning was amazing and the tinplate trains were gorgeous. Looks like you got some nice things too. The gearing of the later locos is a big improvement. The original Tri-ang gearing used a twin start worm and a 40 tooth gear on the drive axle, making the gearing 20:1. The later gearing uses a single start worm and a 28 tooth gear on the drive axle, making it 28:1. The change in gearing makes just enough difference to greatly improve slow speed running with the motor doing 28 revolutions to 1 revolution of the drive axle instead of the former 20 to 1. I think the plastic gears are also lower friction. I think I have turned into a bit if a nerd! There is so much knowledge to discover. 😊

[@oscarpaisley]

Good evening Pauline thanks for looking in again and the terrific information, It's very much appreciated. Great to hear you enjoyed seeing the footage from the show there was just too much to look at especially on that large layout at the beginning. You could keep coming back to that and see something different each time. All the best. Oscar

[@RobA500]

Another great video Oscar, I certainly don't mind the extra length. That was a nice collection of goodies you got yourself the 2 coaches do indeed go well with the Single Wheeler, I think Hornby have done packs like that in the past with loco and coaches. It seems to run well apart from the mishaps, you need to give your signal man a ticking off or is it because he hasn't got use to the wonky floor in his new bendy signal box🤔😊 Thanks for the show, all the best Rob

[@oscarpaisley]

Thanks Rob. Great to hear you enjoyed the video and the look over the goodies, Just waiting for the installation of a new self levelling automated digital system to solve the mishaps with the route planning. But in the meantime, I've given the gentleman in question 20 lines on a wet paper towel, I must plan better next time... All the best. Oscar

[@patrickquinn5962]

Good morning Oscar once again enjoyable to watch Pat IRL

[@barryjgalbraith2635]

I really enjoyed your video Oscar thanks a lot.

[@oldNreliable]

I remember when Hornby said their were going to make a Caledonian train set I don,t remember why they didn,t sell them.

[@robturner3065]

I think they did re-release that loco in original CR livery with the original triang CR coaches about 10 years ago

[@oldNreliable]

@@robturner3065 I mean in the 2022 range Hornby announced rerelease but I know what your talking about the one from the 2000s ish

[@johnbill9201]

Great video Oscar, lot's of varieties on the railway, the Lms locomotive looks very similar to the Lord of the Isle's & those maroon coaches look like my GWR celestial ones thanks John

[@johnd8892]

The Caledonian single uses the same chassis as the Lord of the Isles. Triang in 1963 looking to get another use for the 1961 Isles chassis. For many years it was sold in the preserved Caledonian Blue as R.553. Oscar has several vids on that version to search for.

[@johnd8892]

One example in this vid : kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5WTkKFjZaaraLMsi=ThoYNEUO1oOINfrb The Isles is different having outside frames for all wheels.

[@oscarpaisley]

Thanks, John. Great to hear you enjoyed the video, the same basic chassis was used from the earlier Tri-ang Railways, Lord of the Isles and the Caledonian Single for this later Hornby Railways locomotive. All the best. Oscar

[@russellbenton2987]

Very nice Oscar . I liked that US layout at the beginning of the footage . What make was that ? Enjoyable video as always. I get the box thing . Hornby Railways was my time with City Station in probably the same type of box . Takes you back

[@oscarpaisley]

Thanks for looking in Russell. The large layout at the beginning was Tyco Trucking and Lifelike Trains. I passed on the opportunity of an Albert Hall in that style of packaging quite recently! having just bought one in a mid 70s style Red box with the black card insert... Purely on the basis that I have a few other locomotive now in that style of box! excuses... All the best. Oscar

[@Jimyjames73]

The 11th of March Oscar - That's 1 day b4 my Birthday!!! - W😮W Oscar @ 29:28 Your Ex Caledonian - What a Lovely Loco & Loving the box it came in as well - a little Jealous 😉🚂🚂🚂

[@oscarpaisley]

Hi Jimyjames, hope you had a great birthday. Glad you enjoyed the video Thanks again for watching. Take care. Oscar

[@johnd8892]

At 40:30 it was a bit puzzling why the pickup keeper plate is labelled R.354. The explanation is that was the locomotive that the chassis and so the keeper plate was first built for, the R.354 Dean Single Lord of the Isles. I hope Rovex sensibly reusing existing parts for a newly numbered locomotive variation did not cause too many problems for purchasers not steeped in Triang history back to 1961 or more. Even the model number R.354 got reused for a diesel shunter with the special counter balanced coupling hook , just to confuse things further.

[@oscarpaisley]

Evening John, thanks again for looking in, until you pointed that out I had not noticed that. Defiantly a good use of parts or a mould already available, possibly quite costly to alter the mould. I do have a Lord of the Isles in a Hornby Railways box with instructions dated 1972. All the best. Oscar

[@DJ_K666]

I've got three of the clerestory coaches, two of which came with the Country Local set with a Jinty, which I also still have. Theres someone who does 3D printed interiors for them which if you unclip the roof they just slot in. The spoked wheels arent original. The silver seal wheels in the other one are the right ones. Great haul though. I might have to have a look at that show in Leicester given that I'm based in Rugby.

[@oscarpaisley]

Hi, thanks for looking in. Great to hear you have some of these coaches in your collection. Thanks for the info on the wheels. The next TCS show is in the Motor Museum in Gaydon on the 1st of June, sadly I don't think I'm going to get the time to get there this year, there is usually another show in Leicester early in November, but no date on their website yet. All the best. Oscar traincollector.co.uk/events_summary/

[@ddpeak1]

Hi Oscar I was looking at curves the other day and the same radius curve made in Austria are a different size to the ones from Margate and you can not make a circle with a mix.

[@oscarpaisley]

Hi, thanks for looking in. That sounds intriguing what you say about the Austrian and Margate track. All the best. Oscar

[@DubloAirfix]

Hi Oscar, a very interesting video, thank you. That big layout at the beginning of the TCS show, was that Life-Like models?... or maybe Tyco? Life Like made a lot of accessories back in the day with great play-value but I hadn't realised they had such an extensive range. I just need to think of an excuse to put one of those rotating radar towers on my layout! There was a brief glimpse of a couple of the bascule bridges that could be found in the Hornby catalogue in early 70's and, as you would know, were originally produced by Pola. All very interesting and lots of fun! All the best Guy

[@oscarpaisley]

Good evening Guy thanks again for looking in and the info on the big layout display, such a lot going on, each time I went back to look there was something I haven't seen before. Those bridges are great items, It's a shame they so hard to come by. You would have to design a whole layout around one but a lovely feature, All the best. Oscar

[@DubloAirfix]

@@oscarpaisley Yes, definitely, a layout with that bridge is in the "maybe one day if I have the time and the space" basket. Still nice to see them so well displayed at the TCS show (if only on a video). I once made it to the HRCA meet at Sandy (in 2007 I think) when I was visiting the UK. That was brilliant. I have just joined the TCS so I hope to make it to one of their shows one day. Anyway thanks again for the great video. Guy

[@robturner3065]

Nice to see the single wheeler, I had one of those from new. Yes those coaches were made specifically for that loco, I couldn't afford them as a kid, I ran the little LMS 4 wheel coaches which also look great

[@oscarpaisley]

Hi, thanks for looking in and the information, I like those four wheel coaches, I've run the Lord of the Isles with a set of those in the GW colours. All the best. Oscar

[@michaelstaley2241]

Lovely LMS locomotive crimson lake livery I think.. I personally like the midland compound 4-4-0 ..Michael Sutton Coldfield…

[@oscarpaisley]

Thanks, Michael. Glad you like the locomotive. All the best. Oscar

[@michaelstaley2241]

@@oscarpaisley all the best Oscar keep up the good work..👍🏻

[@philipcorbett7077]

Do you have any intention of installing any catenary in order to run the Class 77 Electras? Love those locos. Apologies if you've already said, one way or the other.

[@oscarpaisley]

Hi Philip, thanks for looking in. There are a number of other things I want to get done first but there is a possibility of getting the early style catenary installed on the inner line. It wood be great to get the electrics running. All the best Oscar

[@jimmanyk]

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