Hello Oscar, so many lovely items to see today but the Engine Shed stole the show. Thanks for all the excellent videos showing your model railway collection throughout 2022, take care and all the best in 2023

Thanks for another great video. The Dublo engine shed is an excellent item and looks great on the railway. Looking forward to seeing more of this layout. All the best for 2023

Melly Chlistmas to you and your family as they say out here in Thailand. That Trix fold out my Dad had the entire contents! That was before I was born in 1959! I suspect it is late 1940s to early 1950s. Take good care of it, could be worth a bob or too! He used to get it out on the dining room table every Xmas after we had eaten our Turkey. We enjoyed the 3 rail running in having 2 trains going in different directions at the same time! As kids we had Triang like you show and could not do that! He never let us near it! We sold it all after he died at Bonhams, could not believe what we got for it, priceless!

Toy trains and Christmas Day, the perfect combination! Happy Christmas to you and yours.

Trains at Christmas? Who wouldn't want to join you! Merry Christmas Oscar!!

Oh, Oscar, What a beautiful opening sequence.. The "old" trains are so awe inspiring? I am far more impressed with these, than the new "super detailed" and "fine wheeled" examples that are model railways today.. I will be happy to participate in running "toy trains" as a past time for the rest of my life? I'm sure that I will wear out before they do? I have just fitted new brushes into a 63 year old Dock Shunter, and it still runs beautifully.. It is the Yellow T.C. version, bought back when Mk. 3 couplers were a"new" invention.. It is even still running the original bulb in the headlight? Tri-ang were truly a "lifetime hobby"..

Hi Oscar, Another blast from the past, great stuff. I can understand not cutting a hole in the board for the turntable as it may not be permanent. Lovely shed with extension, I'm sure you get an extra burst of enjoyment digging out these old models and buildings having been in hibernation for some time. I have one these point switches and it just feels so solid and robust which emphasizes the build quality back in the day. Have a happy healthy 2023.

Best todays Christmas "TV" viewing🎅🎅

Merry Christmas Oscar and family. I Just love looking at your memorabilia takes me back to my childhood. Cheers from down under, Wally

Merry Christmas from sunny Stourport on Severn Oscar. It's great seeing this wonderfull layout evolve. the mixture is brilliant and works so well, the perfect train set!

Merry Christmas Oscar . Looking forward to the layout’s progress in 2023.

Yep if you got Locos & Rolling stock with lights - if fun to use in the dark!!! Nice Engine shed - yep would look nice if you could get it lit up!!! Nice to see 4 Locos running at the same time Oscar - Thanks for sharing 🙂🚂🚂🚂

Hi Oscar, this video just popped up, excellent.

happy xmas oscar.this brings back memories of the early 60s as mentioned before the transcontintal diesels were a xmas present from my parents in 1962,it was like all my dreams come true,i seem to remember a bottle of oil came with it,

Merry Christmas Oscar, and thank you for the weekly fix of OO

Merry Christmas and thankyou Oscar for the train playing for the Year and please keep playing trains.

Perfect start to Christmas Day Oscar. Thanks again for sharing your items. It’s going to be a busy Sunday today as for everybody. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and prosperous New Year. Looking forward to a great 2023. Roy.

fabulous video Oscar....Just great to see..I have finally got a small dedicated room for my own railway at long last !!...So have to plan a re build soon....Best Wishes ..Adrian

Merry Christmas Oscar. Nice to see a bit motr Dublo this week. The 1960 date is about right as the plastic range of buildings started in 1959. The curved track never had the slots for the buffer stops to deliberately stop you putting them on the end of them.

Merry Christmas from Australia, Oscar. Another jam packed video with lots of interesting items. My favourites will always be the double ended diesel with blue and gold cars. They are very reminiscent of the Victorian Railways B class loco and Spirit of Progress train . Most enjoyable! Sad that many train sets were once given at Christmas but not so much now.

Great video this morning Oscar a;d hope you are having a good Christmas, great looking turntable and engine shed and the way you have set them up on the layout looks great.

Merry Christmas.... Always intersting to watch your videos, good to see the early stuff, some buildings I can rember from been a kid as a friend had a layout (pre owned) for Christmas one year in the early 1970s. And it had a few of these early ish buildings and locos. I have never seen the engine shed before, so that is nice to see. All the best for the New Year, !

Dear Oscar, thanks for all your wonderful nostalgic videos, 5hey take me back to simplistic times that 8 wish I could revisit but can't, how foolish am I. We grow up and nothing and I mean nothing can replace the childhood imagination.i knew that HornbyDublo track wasn't right with three rails, also knew hornby dubl9 was better. I loved the security of my childhood, but then I grew up and s9mehow the world seemed hostile Well your videos has given me great nostalgic joy and I think many will agree. Im look forward to more od Oscars toy trains in 2023

Great Christmas video Oscar all the best for the next year looking forward to watching 👍

Merry Christmas Oscar. Your camera work and editing are fantastic and judging by the comments well appreciated by others too. As noted many times previously, Triang and Dublo work together even if separate track circuits are required. In addition you have opened the box on Trix Twin which is another manufacturer adding to the wealth of model railway operation in the 1950s. Others more knowledgeable have dated that catalogue to be 1954. Let me know if you are interested in a Dublo lighting kit donation, sadly minus the bulb.

Good morning to you Oscar from Glasgow and A Merry Christmas for Glasgow

Merry Christmas Oscar,. Thanks for the great videos.

Happy Christmas Oscar! Love the videos

As always Highly enjoyable

Hi Oscar, Happy Christmas. Thanks for Xmas video.

Happy Christmas Oscar. Great running session, and layout is coming on nicely. Really like the engine shed, what a great item!

Merry Christmas Oscar and thank you for another great video with some of your beautiful models from your amazing collection! I hugely appreciate your knowledge and passion for these lovely trains. Every Sunday I watch your videos, it inspirea me to go to my layout and run my trains. Cheers and thanks again for a great Sunday!

The Trix Twin locos have the central skate pickup similar to HD 3-rail but rather than collecting the other side of the current from the loco's wheels, there is a protruding skate pickup from the side of the loco that rests on the outside rail.

Merry Xmas Oscar and thank you for another year of wonderful films, with lots of great running and items to enjoy on your layout today. Lovely to see the Trix catalogue - my first train set was a Trix goods for Xmas in the late 1960's. Looking forward to watching your films in 2023, and thanks again for sharing your fantastic collection.

Hi Oscar ,, In the switches part of the video looks to be bakelite or the plastic of the the early 1900's onwards and widely used in the 40's & 50's. Its amazing what was made around that period of time that was the plastic of the day and there durability is a testament to its good strenght and a lot of it that is still used today like as in the small triang power controller boxes with the little red button when there is a short circuit are made out of bakelite. I done a stint selling just about anything on ebay from 2008 to 2015 to save my house after the 2008/9 GFC & I sold a lot of bakelite and it was a 100% sell rate. I come across a deceased estate that the people gave me acces to and there were suitcases full of electrical switches plugs and light sockets of all types made by HPM and were all brand new unused or unused in there little paper jackets and there literally 100's of them and I sold every bit of them and they went to all parts of the world. Its also good to see your new layout expanding every time i see a video you are getting more and more done to it which is great to see. Well its early on boxing day and have some etuff to do today so merry Christmas to you and your family from me. Cheers from John in Australia.

Fabulous Christmas day video. I loved the running in the introduction and at the finish. The shed looks marvelous, I wonder if additional ones could be added to make a longer shed? The Trix items in the fold out pamphlet looked rather toy like compared to the later Trix Twin offerings. All good stuff in it's day I suppose. Regards, David.

Your timing is spot on, Christmas Day, all the best. Some lovely items today. The engine shed is very nice and the turntable seems to work very well too. I have a red Dock Authority shunter with the LED conversion and changed the very blue/white led to a warm white one and it looks much nicer, to me anyway. The Trix trains look absolutely fascinating so I must catch up with your video. Thanks for the year so far, it's been very enjoyable and lots of fun. 😊🎄

Hi Oscar, Merry Christmas to you! Another great video of your layout which is starting to take shape now. Nice to see the little shunter which morphed into the dock shunter later with Hornby. I have two black dock shunters which are amazingly strong pullers and fast too!

Morning Oscar yes Christmas day, as usual I'm about relaxing just waiting for my other half to get up and the grandkids coming over later. Always interesting to watch. What a collection you've got, it's interesting to see what comes out next. These trains are what kindled my interest in railway and indeed toy trains, which has sometimes subdued, resurfaced but never goes away. Merry Christmas Oscar thanks for all the memories. Eddy xx

Merry Christmas! If you do fix the box, make sire you get archival or acid free scotch tape. Regular magic tape can dissolve the cardboard over time..

Hi Oscar, thanks for another great video - they have all been much appreciated throughout the year:-)) That Dublo engine shed was on my list to Santa for many years and still looks great today:-)) Great to see the Dock shunter which I got for Christmas 45 years ago! I spent hours with the curtains drawn watching that headlight go round - a 70s equivalent of being glued to your iPad I guess! How about checking out some of the early Hornby Minitrix range for 2023 - you could have an amazing layout in ‘n’ with all that space! Best wishes to you and family this Christmas and I hope you get the Giraffe car in your stocking!!!

Merry Christmas Oscar. Nice to see progress on your layout. The engine shed is such a nice thing to see. I also find that there is current drop with each set of Series 3 points on my Series 3 layout. Extra power inlet points obviously help with this. I also note the the Series 3 joiners are often corroded which doesn't help. Have a safe and happy festive season. Monsville Railways

Merry Christmas Oscar! Very pleased to have found a little time on Christmas morning to watch your latest video 🙂 Your layout is beginning to fill out again. Great to see the Dublo items in addition to the Triang - that turntable looks lovely! The Trix catalogue looks interesting. I found myself looking at some 'manyways' items the other day on Ebay, though they aren't really in my collecting scope... Anyhow, thank you for another interesting video, and have a great Christmas!

New years eve !

Great.

Merry Christmas to you Oscar and thank you for your work entertaining and informing us over the year. At 27:35 you ask about the date of the Trix Twin catalogue. My estimate is 1955 since that is when the Meteor free lance articulated diesel train was introduced. By 1956 Trix would be giving prominence to the introduction of DC after all previous was AC. By 1958 the new scale Brittania and Ruston diesel would be illustrated. The Meteor train had coach light but opaque windows. Disparaged by scale magazines later as the Haunted House diesel given the flickering lights and freelance design. A change in emphasis with the very good looking die cast Brittania unfortunately to the Trix 1:80 scale that held them back. Rapidly most of the items in your leaflet were taken out of production.

Merry Christmas Oscar 🎅🏼🎄👍🏻🌲

Thanks for showing us how this turntable works! It's a shame you can't add more tracks to it, even if you make them too short for an engine or wagon to fit.

merry xmas one annd all, 4/- =20p 4/6 = 22 1/2 p, jingle bells indeed!

Please Oscar, what ever you do, stop opening Trix catalogues, you'll be dismantling this great layout before you've completed it. So grateful for your trouble to share all that work and obvious enjoyment.

No Hornby Double never issued a motorise version of the turntable, When they introduced 2 rail track they drew a plan for a 2 rail version but this was never produced.. I believe one of the earlier Märklin motorised turntables will connect to Double 3 rail track and will work.

Great video as usual. The converted to LED light yard switcher appears to show a bridge rectifier and a resistor on the printed circuit board to allow the light to operate in both directions. The original bulb type light must be difficult to find now. Do you have any TTR and later Trix models for us to see in the future? Best wishes for the New Year. On holiday in Port Adelaide South Australia.

Trix twin. Wow the originators of OO gauge !

Sorry been gone...3 rail

Hi Oscar, I'm a new subscriber to your channel having rediscovered some old Triang equipment in a few boxes in the loft. I was wondering do you have a rerversing loop on any of your layouts and did Tri-ang or Hornby make a 'DPDT switch gadget for that ?

Hi there is this your new layout?