That should be great! I wish my garden was big enough for that!

Yes that could happen!

I don't think I'd have the patience these days to do much with clockwork trains!

On looking closer you do have joiners. Think they are smaller than mine.

​@@TriflingCircle I do have two types. The black ones grip the inside of the joining sleepers whereas the older silver type grip the outside of the sleepers. I think the latter are earlier second hand ones I had been given.

One of my life time happy memories is when I kept asking my Mum if I was going to get this loco for Christmas she actually showed it to me before the big day, to keep me quiet! I couldn't have it until then however. Magic!

@@ADMIRALSCORNER and you've still got it, that's amazing!

Just right for an ancient owner!

Hi Perry. My Hornby has always been stored in a closed metal trunk away from the light. I wonder if that is the reason. Some track is ancient second hand and that has become darker over the years.

@@ADMIRALSCORNER thank you for your reply. My track has been stored in a cardboard box and the original gleam it had has gone and the track has faced In colour. Can anyone who is into clockwork trains tell me how I might get the track to look like new. I have no rust on it. Admiral your engines and rolling stock look lovely especially the LNER tank engine. Oh and you have a good assortment of trucks. I have a red lumber truck which has chains in it to keep the load in place plus a guards van needing new couplings. As a child some of the train was played with but I managed to keep several things in lovely condition complete with boxes. I lived near the main southern line to Bournemouth and remember seeing the Bullied Pacifics and standard class fives thundering by. Towards the end of steam several engines would pass our dwelling and would be all polished ready to haul special trains. All the best to you Perry

I never came across anything from Basset -Lowke as a boy but knew it was a revered name. I did get a few items from Chad Valley but being poorer quality I didn't like them so much and most haven't survived!

I had no Bassett-Lowke items. However, my mother would take me sometimes to London and we did go to Gamages. The Bassett-Lowke shop was in Holborn and nearby. We would always stop and look in the window Once we went inside and were shown around. That shop so upmarket is now a McDonalds.

@@TriflingCircle Gosh is it? What I knew about Bassett-Lowke besides their products being beyond the ability for most to purchase was that they at least made more realistic locos with more than four wheels and coaches the same. I later found out that Hornby did that too, years before the war started. I couldn't understand why they had stopped doing that!

I have made several videos with Hornby clockwork trains so you can see for yourself. Its not very long unfortunately. You can see Robin Paine's video on KZfaq where he took the clockwork mechanism out of the loco and fitted a battery and a remote controlled an electric motor in its space. That ran for much longer. That sounds a great idea.

That would be a good idea! I was just curious to see how they ran out of the box. If the weather was better I would probably have had a longer running session and done that.

Yes I am sure that's a good idea!

it was a model assembled from weekly parts on subscription with a magazine. I have made several videos here on KZfaq of how its build progressed.

Sadly we don't have room for a proper garden railway. If we did, real steam would be my choice for power.

That however is very expensive, if the best!

@@ADMIRALSCORNER Please can you tell me how you keep the track looking so good. Mine is faded in colour and I want to restore it. Thank you..Perry

@@PerryRobinson-gt6fy See my reply above.