1n 1965 as a 4 year i got that Triang set 3 car set , no points, just an oval. I was so excited that day but the transformer blew it straight away. This is why I have the Blue Pullman as my channel tag. Grooved wheels on the power car, lots of sparking in the motor and that special smell.
I have the Blue Grey version from the 70's. It was a train set from my early childhood. It still runs today and that old Triang stuff goes like a rocket and is built to last. At the few remaining train shows you do see these in the second hand areas selling for peanuts. sadly there is very little value attached to this era of hornby stuff. Maybe because there was so much produced
Hi, I found this most interesting .I have around 20 of these sets, all in their various liveries, some boxed and others loose. In these some are almost factory fresh and others in a poor state. While I will keep those in mint condition as they are, from the more tattier ones I intend to put together two trains of six vehicles. - one train with the yellow nose the other with the original blue nose. These I will renovate and restore. I would like to paint them rather than leave them as blue plastic. Plastic always looks like plastic to me.. I have already purchased the kitchen car conversion kits and also window conversion kits to turn the motor units into Midland Pullman cars which (unlike the Western Pullmans) they had a toilet fitted in them so the windows were slightly different. I have a lot of other ideas too. I'll be following your series carefully. Thanks for a great video.
As I mentioned in the Video - I have Both of the Bachmann versions the Midland Nankin Blue and the later reverse livery version. I'll get to those in due course
@@worthingtonmodelrailway8628 yes I suppose they introduced it to fill a gap in their train sets that year . If you look at the livery it is the same as the grey blue one , so maybe they had the same masking or painting templates and just changed the colours . But the real thing never ran in these colours , only blue in the colours of the first two sets you showed . Enjoyable video though . The Bachmann version obviously knocks spots off these models - but at a price !
Beautiful locomotives. Thanks for sharing. Dave
1n 1965 as a 4 year i got that Triang set 3 car set , no points, just an oval. I was so excited that day but the transformer blew it straight away. This is why I have the Blue Pullman as my channel tag. Grooved wheels on the power car, lots of sparking in the motor and that special smell.
I have the Blue Grey version from the 70's. It was a train set from my early childhood. It still runs today and that old Triang stuff goes like a rocket and is built to last. At the few remaining train shows you do see these in the second hand areas selling for peanuts. sadly there is very little value attached to this era of hornby stuff. Maybe because there was so much produced
Hi, I found this most interesting .I have around 20 of these sets, all in their various liveries, some boxed and others loose. In these some are almost factory fresh and others in a poor state. While I will keep those in mint condition as they are, from the more tattier ones I intend to put together two trains of six vehicles. - one train with the yellow nose the other with the original blue nose. These I will renovate and restore. I would like to paint them rather than leave them as blue plastic. Plastic always looks like plastic to me.. I have already purchased the kitchen car conversion kits and also window conversion kits to turn the motor units into Midland Pullman cars which (unlike the Western Pullmans) they had a toilet fitted in them so the windows were slightly different. I have a lot of other ideas too. I'll be following your series carefully. Thanks for a great video.
good vid thanks lee
Do you own the fabulous Bachmann version. Expensive but worth every penny
As I mentioned in the Video - I have Both of the Bachmann versions the Midland Nankin Blue and the later reverse livery version. I'll get to those in due course
Nice . The 4th version Blue/grey is a made up version . Hornby introduced it in 1974 but the real thing was withdrawn in the grey livery
Thanks for the info, I was wondering why I couldn't find anything relating to that livery.
@@worthingtonmodelrailway8628 yes I suppose they introduced it to fill a gap in their train sets that year . If you look at the livery it is the same as the grey blue one , so maybe they had the same masking or painting templates and just changed the colours . But the real thing never ran in these colours , only blue in the colours of the first two sets you showed . Enjoyable video though . The Bachmann version obviously knocks spots off these models - but at a price !