1976 Hornby Railways R179 Inter-City Mail Train Set unboxing, & running session, lots of play factor
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- As new as it gets, my Hornby Inter-city mail. tran set, never been run until now, looks great works as it should, Its great to run train sets like this.
I was given that exact same set, 1975 i think, absolutely loved it. Brought back some memories!
Thank you for watching, glad it brought back good memories.
It brings back the image of what Christmas really meant. Wonderful nostalgia. The 1970s was a wonderful decade.
A trainset for christmas was one of the best presents, back then, thank you for watching all the best.
The best 👌🏻 👍🏻
I can understand my enjoyment of this as a 12 year old back in the early 70's not sure why now at 60 something I still find this so fascinating LOL. Nice video and well done you for keeping a pristine set for all of these years.
Your welcome, I guess we never fully grow up, all the best
God that’s amazing always a big train fan in my younger youth years ! This is a collective item needs looking after dearly 👍👍
I will be looking after this, as its great fun. all the best
@ definitely mate there’s not even one on eBay to buy ether was looking for one myself. That’s an investment for ya mate. 👍👍
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.
Yes was great to run this set and see how the mail bags collected and dropped off.
Great purchase there and lovely to see some older stuff running
It was great running this, Glad you enjoyed watching the video.
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.
Great to hear stories like this, and hope they like them in 40 years time as well. all the best Paul
@PaulsRailwayModels-vz9oz yes he still has his train set plus a few additions, rolling stock, trains, track, he's 22 now loves his guitar playing, so train set packed in cupboard won't sell coz as he gets older it may well come out later, that's if I don't get my hands on it.
I had this for either birthday or Christmas in the 70’s, hours of joy ❤
Me too. Loved how the mail bags were collected. A proper toy for a magical time at Christmas.
I had this set when I was young, many years later I worked on class 37's and Royal Mail TPO's
Brilliant nice to see that train set again.. my brother got that set for his Christmas back in the 70s
Glad you enjoyed watching , all the best.
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 ❤
Glad it brought memories back, maybe you will buy a few models again to run on the layout, take care.
Have a great new Year all the best Paul
@@PaulsRailwayModels-vz9oz Thank you Paul. Same to you.👍🏻😊
My brother had this set....loved watching the mail bag get collected.
glad you enjoyed all the best have a great new year
My brother had this too. Either Christmas 1976 or 77. He was 6, Christmas 1976 and I was 9. If it was that year..... either/or 😂 The same year I got the Inter-City 125 set. The High Speed Train 👍 Happy days for sure
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 .
Great hear, getting a layout running makes it all the more better, and a free set that was lucky.
I had the exact same controller! Loved this set (Christmas present in 1975)
My goodness, that's exactly the one I had way back in the 70s
Love the ingenious mail operation, especially the clever way of turning it off.
Most memorable Christmas present I received was a hornby train set.
The same for me.😀
Ditto.
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).
It is a great set and a child must have been wow ,
I am planning a small N gauge layout soon for a test track layout, I will build over a few weeks.
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.
Thank you for watching, and enjoying, all the best Paul
Didn't get this set, but always admired it in the Hornby catalogue.
I always used to look through the Catalogue, as well thinking I would like to have this set at the time.
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.
Your very welcome, glad you enjoyed the video , I enjoyed making it and collecting mail bags, all the best Paul
hours of fun for a youngster putting the mail bags on the hook and then retrieving them from the collector bin and rehanging them over and over again
Back in the 70's Christmas day this would have been, so good as a kid, and still good fun now, Hornby at it's best.
@PaulsRailwayModels-vz9oz Kids today would play with that for 5 mins then smash it all up with a hammer 🔨 and then go back to play games on their tablet.
This was my first train set, wow I relived a few memories there!! Great stuff.
It's always good looking at these old sets, and running them, brings back good memories, all the best.
Lovely train set and you've got the mail coach to work a treat too! I've got the later one, the model with the two doors on the same side for collecting and depositing. Takes some adjustment to get that one working.
It was very easy to get working, I did think it was going to be so fiddly to get working, but just worked. This was the first time I had set this up, I think its great as well, I have not seen the newer ones, but I guess if picking up and drop off on the same side makes in more accurate and will work on twin track layout.
@@PaulsRailwayModels-vz9oz yup it's better for twin track layout, as I've got on mine. The fiddly aspect comes with the positioning of the activation ramps in relation to the respective trackside elements. With the new coach, the speed of the train plays a factor too. This isn't as much of an issue with pickup as it can be with dropoff - if the train is travelling too fast, the bag can get flung outside the receiving bin if the ramps aren't positioned right. Same thing can happen if the train is run too slow Sadly, Hornby's instructions on where to place the ramps in relation to the trackside equipment doesn't always provide the best results - I've had to move them about two or three sleepers forward or backward from the displayed positions (I forget the exact specifications - this was some years ago when I first laid my track).
Love this old Triang Hornby railway products.They have character something that the super detailed products of today seem to lack.
I've smashed up loads of train sets like this. Use a hammer or golf clubs. My favourite is using a heavy club like a sand iron. Place the loco on the "tee" and swing hard, absolutely splintering the loco all over the room!!
Got this same set for Christmas around 1975
This was the 1st set i owned in the early 70s ...i recently managed to acquire another for my layout, still fascinating
Its a great set, Hornby at its best, glad you enjoyed watching
seeing that set brings back some great memories,thanks for the review
Your welcome, glad you enjoyed, have a great time over the Holidays
This is what I had great memories of
Glad you enjoyed the video
I was given that exact train set for Christmas 1974. Now sadly long gone.
You had good fun when you had it this is the main thing, take care
Great video, good memories, thanks
You're welome , have a great christmas holiday
What An Awesome “Big” Present that would have been to Open, However the Operators Efficiency at Loading the Mailbags, Contravenes Union Regulations of the 1970’s and An Enquiry will have to be Scheduled 😁😉
I could only just get the mail bags on the collection post in time,😃 thank you for watching all the best Paul
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.
Good to hear you still have it, thank you for watching all the best Paul
got that set for xmas one year loved it
It was different Back in the 70's. A trainset was the best toy in the world for a young child. I did get a diffent set Hornby R.697 LMS Express passenger Set - Duchess of Sutherland and I loved this, always wanted the royal mail coach.
I had a mail set when I was younger, how I miss that set
This set is a lot of fun, even at my age :) if you see one on eBay you should buy for the memory. all the best Paul
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I’ve been looking since I saw you get yours on the go
It was so much fun when I was a child
How I miss it now 😂
@@Rturn2609 Hope you find a good one soon.
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.
Pre-owned or new this would have made Christmas all the best Paul
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 😂
Still fun watching the mail bags getting collected and dropped off, doesn't matter if it was a class 47.you had, you had fun.
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
@@jonathanbliss3708 had the same, can remember my sister dropping the engine and it cracked the plastic body. The things one remembers.
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
They do run demos of the mail train, on the great central at loughborough, I think only a couple of times a year, I think. Nice to hear your details on how it worked. all the best
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.
I think F1 Aurora racing set (James Hunt/Nikki Lauder) would have been fun, I would have like to see and have had this as well. I think you would have enjoyed both just as much, thank you for watching, all the best Paul
I had this set when I was a kid.
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
The coaches with lights had pick ups which spring loaded and pressed onto the rails, I do have two of these coaches in LMS. This set of mine with the Mail train doesn't have lights, not as lucky as yourself.
Hello Paul - I too have a 'Mail Train set' - It's called 'Night Mail' R1174 By Hornby - It's a Red LMS 0-6-0 3F Jinty Tank loco thou, but I have never got it to work properly though - Can't believe it is an old Train Set that never been used b4!!! Happy Holidays 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Yes this was the first time It had run, as far as I could tell, and the 37 had a great Crawl, I didn't know if it was going to collect the mail, and drop it off, but all worked, and I enjoyed how this worked. I hope you are able to get yours working, and running, as its good fun. all the best Happy Christmas Paul
I liked that.......a lot 👍
Your welcome, thank you for watching
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....
Get fun again with your mail train set, enjoy the modeling.
I used to have that, was a bugger to get it set up correctly to collect and drop off the bags!
I must have got lucky, as this was the first time I set it up and worked. I did think it wasn't going to work first time. Thanks for watching all the best Paul
Worth a fortune now
Not as expensive as you think, Thank you for watching all the best
I've got the LMS postal set and interestingly it has the trap doors on the same side, so when running the train the pick up and drop off are on the left hand side.
The later one's had the drop off and pickup on one side this makes building a double track layout a lot easier, Thank you for watching
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.
Triang made a great product and thanks to them Hornby was able to carry this on, thank you for watching all the best Paul
I've still got this in my loft 1976 I think 👌
look after it
Still got this in the loft! 🙂
You will have to get in running again, thank you for watching all the best.
I had this set. I got it in 1977.
Thank you watching, all the best
I had the silver jubilee Pullman in 1977 I wanted the diesel
Did you not give it a drop of Oil...?
I didn't this was straight out of the box, after all this time, ran very well, maybe I will add a drop of oil to keep it running well.
I had the mail coach in the early 60’s but it was dark red.
It was made in LMS first, and then BR blue for the 70's sets.
Suggest unboxing on a towel or blanket to cut harsh noise. Meant constructively
I have mounted some Acoustic Panels on the wall behind me now which should help with noise and echos, I always like to hear advice , have a great new year all the best
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.
I had this back in about 75 I am now 65 and sold it for £75 10 years ago
Glad you enjoyed the video, all the best.
You would have thought they would have used the XLMS mail cosch instead of their continental one
As far as I know this is the LMS mail coach in BR blue grey 1970's livery
This was my very first train set!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did want this as a child but got the Hornby R.697 LMS Express passenger Set - Duchess of Sutherland, which I loved and had hours of fun watching it go around
may i ask what the value of this in such nice condition would be in todays market
I paid £60 For this
That was my 1st Train SET in 1976...I think..
my first set was the Hornby R.697 LMS Express passenger Set - Duchess of Sutherland, but watching Bbernard Cribbins Hornby adverts with the mail train, this is something I always wanted
Merry christmas
I wish you a very Happy Christmas
I had one when in I think 1976. 1977
British train set, American style mail coach
Hornby produced this set on a budget just like many others, hence the bizarre battery operated controller and the basic cardboard tunnel. Accuracy in these sets were secondary to the play value .
I read somewhere that back then there was a higher purchase tax applied if sets came complete with a mains power controller. If the set and controller were purchased as separate items, the lower tax was applied to each item. The supplied battery controller got round this, even if you had to also buy a battery!
Mind you, the preponderance of power cuts in the seventies meant with the batteries you could still use the thing!! If only by candle light...
It would have been better to added a mains controller, even the high end set had 3 speed controllers. but set great fun in the 70's and great fun now.