WTF Hornby Dublo

[@Jimyjames73]

What a Lovely collection of books & Locos you've got there - A good running Session - I've got the newer Version of the Hornby Dublo Trainset!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@JohnSwift-x4q]

Brings back memories of my childhood.Many Thanks.

[@rodericfindlay4147]

What a treat: especially the blue Gresley and the teak coaches. Beautifully filmed. Thank you.

[@crewelocoman5b161]

At least with 3 rail on the carpet there is some protection against fluff finding its way into the mechanism! Nice video.

[@forrestrobin2712]

Gorgeous. 7013 is my favourite even if she's the least powerful of all my 3 rail express locomotives (46245 converted to 3-rail with a Marklin skate is an absolute MONSTER). Mind you 7013 is sulking a bit at the moment since I converted Lima class 52 "Western Gladiator" to 3-rail 😢. Love them both ! But there's something very special about Hornby Dublo...❤ My theory is that it's because when they were released, the prototypes were still operational (Or in the case of the 4MT 2-6-4T still being delivered!). Dublo captured the spirit of that and for me that's what makes them special !

[@robinmarshall1713]

My 80054 complete with 3 goods and a circle of track was my Christmas present in the early 50s. My 80054 is less than 3 ft from me as I type, but in a display cabinet. Not sure if it could manage 8 coaches as per this video. Plenty of track in the loft, hmmmm shall I give it a try?? Thanks for the memories. Not much 3 rail about these days.

[@michaelblundell8608]

80054 with a set of eight coaches impressive and 69567 every boys starter set.

[@brianberke3011]

Thank you for that relaxing 5 minute interlude.

[@pottonttc]

Good to see three rail Hornby Dublo still running - great examples - Have a Merry Xmas & New Year !

[@sanspareil3018]

Always a joy to watch your videos!

[@railway187]

Very beautiful 🤩

[@ajivins1]

Nice. I just picked-up Cardiff Castle!

[@robinedwards598]

Lovely….Imaginative. Still the best train/trainsets around. Made in England. Now there’s something. 🚂🚂

[@JAMESDEMU-RailwayModeller]

Looks like a good way to spend sn afternoon

[@littleviking488]

Thanks for the video!

[@leekmuncher7474]

Great stuff! And from a time when a Hornby train set gave you an authentic loco hauling authentic carriages and wagons that you would see on the real railway! Unlike the tat they produce now with fictitious 0-4-0s in their umpteenth different made-up livery pulling unrealistic generic rolling stock.

[@crewelocoman5b161]

Not for any of us I guess, but the counter argument is that small children need to start somewhere and cheap and cheerful always sells very well. I packed a Hornby trainset for a ten year old this Christmas and it contained Flying Scotsman with four Gresley teak coaches, a layout map, an oval of track plus two add-on track packs and points, transformer/power controller, a couple of buffer stops and a detail pack for the loco. Hornby Dublo offered a starter train set with a little 0-4-0 tank with red wheels and cheap and cheerful rolling stock in 1963. Alas, it came too late in the day to save them as Tri-ang and Playcraft had stolen the march on them.

[@stevencook6750]

Reminds be of being a kid and having to pack it all away before bed time, so I never got the most out of it, now things are a little different 😉👍