Lovely models Oscar. The R50 princess was my first model from my Dad in the 1950s... Opening that boxed set at Christmas was amazing (even though it was second-hand) ... had some great fun with that set, especially when we upgraded from the battery controller to a "battery eliminator" mains powered controller... still playing today with more modern models...

Good morning Oscar, it's Martin from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. I've just watched your excellent latest video. Wonderful to see your Princess Elizabeth locomotive and her rake of Pullman coaches. I remember as a little boy I had one of those locomotives and a rake of blood and custard coaches. I often wonder what happened to all of my model railways, as far as i can remember my mum passed it all to one of her relatives children who apparently trashed them all in a very short time. I was very upset about it at the time and I vaguely remember my parents having quite big arguments about it which was quite frightening at the time. But when i was 15 and left school and got a job with British Rail my dear dad was so pleased for me that it made me so happy, mum didn't show any emotion. So when I watch your videos the memories always come flooding back. So I always look forward to your videos Oscar. Well it's time for my cup of tea and my toasted tea cake. Keep safe Oscar and I hope you have a good week ahead. 👍🚂🙂

It's a great combination the Princess Elizabeth with the lovely Pullman coaches. The coaches still look classy after all those years, definitely one of my favourites. 😊

Morning Oscar, lovely to see those early Pullmans and Green Princess. A thoroughly enjoyable start to Sunday as usual.

Good running session. The Princess runs particularly well.

Morning Oscar, what a great start to a Sunday morning, coffee and toast then watch video of the railway. Pullmans always look so impressive, nice the boxes had their names on them. Have few here but they just have item number no names. Looking forward to next video as always. Thankyou again Marc from Leighton Buzzard

Morning Oscar another very enjoyable video to start Sunday . Really nice to see the Pullman stock running .Very enjoyable looking at the old catalogues ,hopefully your car is now in use .😊

Good morning Oscar, earlier Sunday morning I have a maroon triang hornby Princess Elizabeth version. Also Pullman coaches happy days… excellent content…👍🏻

Hi Oscar, I agree that is a fabulous page of black locomotives. It would make a great framed print for the wall. Sorry to hear about your car.. so annoying! I hope your Sunday goes better. Guy

Hello...just rerun a video of yours from 3 years ago when you ran R257 and the EM2 and I mentioned that I have the CKD version of the EM2 but no instructions. You kindly posted the instructions for me and I never realised it until today. The purpose of this message is to say thank you. On a different note I too have the green Princess Elizabeth and the early Pullman coaches. Nick Jervis

Great running Oscar . It’s what it’s all about , playing trains with some fine models and lots of nostalgia as well !

Great video. I never realised that you can release the wheel the way you have demonstrated, thank you. I have owned Princess Royal maroon sleeper set since 1962 and it runs really well. The pictures on the set boxes are tremendous and very evocative. Your loco's are running really smooth, very impressive. Thank you for sharing.

Good morning to you Oscar from Glasgow another great video from you Sir great to see you doing stuff for your Railway wood you have Hornby New Locomotive and stock in your collection Thanks again for the video 📹

Greetings from NZ on a Sunday evening here.

Oh Oscar. I thought you were going to the Princess down the elevated section to match the catalogue picture lol.

Another superb start to my Sunday Oscar. As I often do I had a look at my comparable loco and coaches. My coaches are good but my loco is not in as good a condition as your older one. I am sorry to hear that car problems continue to plague you, it must be very frustrating. As that was Feb. and we are now on the cusp of April, I hope it is all sorted now. Regards, David.

Greetings once again Oscar! I always thought it was odd that it took two years for Tri-ang to come out with the R.328 Brake coach to match the R.228. If you check Pat Hammond's first volume on Tri-ang Railways, there is a picture of an exhibition layout with the then Minister of Transport Sir Brian Robertson and the company General Manager John Doyle. On the layout is what appears to be a prototype for a Brighton Belle set with the R.228 Pullmans. Perhaps if the Southern EMU set had sold better this might have appeared. I think the brake tooling may have been intended as a Brighton Belle powered/dummy tool. The Pullmans were certainly styled after the Brighton Belle stock. A definite what if??

Very enjoyable video for a Sunday morning great

Another great start to Sunday. You’ve made me want to get my Pullman rolling stock out now! Thanks for sharing your layout with us. I know how long it must take to plan and set up these videos. Roy.

Greetings Oscar🎉 Lovely Pullman's

Modern technology🙄 You wouldn't have had alternator problems with an 1803 Trevithick😁👏👏👍👍

Hello Oscar - sorry to hear about your car - at least it has been sorted now 🙂Boxes can be interesting - @ 16:05 Yes you did show that box b4 - I remember that little glass jar in it!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂

Hi there Oscar ,, I am soon going to attempt to de-axle the pullmans and repair the other carriages I have here as there the open box axles like you have. I am making up a jig type set up tomhold the axles in place out of a piece of billet alluminium that is 20 cms wide by 20cms deep and is 30mm thick so that should be plenty of depth for the axle to go through the ally and I will drill some holes in it and set up a rubber pad for the bogies to lay on and so I can knock the axles into the holes so I dont damage the the rivets or the bogies holding the carriage together. I was thinking of using a piece of rubber like the side wall of a bike tyre or car tyre or 4wd tyre or truck tyre if need be but I will have to experiment to get the right thickness for the bogie to sit on. Then drill some holes in the rubber bits for the axles to go through into the billet of ally. I got the piece of ally from a vineyard that was there stainless steel conveyor belt for boxing all of there boxed wines for selling and exporting and when i was pulling it apart i was thinking hmm these thick plates of ally might be good for the axle removal plates for my trains. I bought the carriages over 2 or 3 years ago and i have bought quite alot of spares in the last 3 years thinking they may be handy for the wheel and the axles in some of the better carriages i have here. The broken carriages i got for free pretty much as in they were goint to chuck them in the bin so i said noooo I'll keep them for spares as in for wheels and axles if your going to chuck them. Q. Are all the axles for the open box axles the same as in all of them the same width length and thickness. I know some of the wheels different sizes as I really would like to replace them all with steel wheels in the near future. Speaking of the steel wheels I had recently bought a southern livery green Spitfire R.374 and i noticed that the tender has the 2 piece wheels like the open box wheels in the pullmans and are plastic wheels too but they have the steel tyres fitted to it so i was wondering if they would suit the pullmans too as the clickety clack of steel wheels sound so much better to my ears than the plastic ones do and I have noticed that steel wheels seems to run so much better than what the plastic wheels do as in less drag so I can utilise more carriages to pull with any loco I have. The only other problem i can see with using the steel ones is the tender on the Winston Churchill has the steel axles but the axle boxes are the closed type. I was thinking they may fit the pullman axles but not 100% sure if they are the same axle width or even the thickness for that matter. I supose if there not the right axle thickness i can just use the original axles in the carriage im applying them too or maybe even i could make up some axles out of the spokes off a push bikes or even a motor bike spokes that I have here if need be. Do you know it there is a part number for the steel tender wheels with steel tyres have part number an R.374 number for them. Now i know this is a long shot but do you know if hornby would sell them new or would you know anyone that has any for sale or point me in the right direction to buy some as I need quite a few sets of them if I am going the steel tyre route. Again sorry for so many question's but my interest in the hobby has really sparked up as now im back in the hobby after a 40 year hiatus and now there is videos like yours and others to help us all out with repairing fixng painting trouble shooting and i really love it. So thanks a million for all the trouble you go to to put these videos on for us all. Very Muchly Appreciated. Cheers from John in Australia.

A good video this morning Oscar, overall nice locomotive and those pullmans also looked good running with it, good to see the West Country running again with the southern coaches as well, keep up the great work.

Hi Oscar, Lovely Pullmans and Princess. Also nice sedate scale speed running session 👍 Off this afternoon with a couple of club members to view a nice layout, locomotives, rolling stock and controls, all for sale. Sadly the owner has passed away and the family are moving it on so we’ll see how that pans out. Establish ed layouts are always a difficult proposition. Regards, Gordon

Superb Oscar.

I have to chuckle and smile now, but I always loved that artwork on the trainset boxes, which showed you just what you could have if your father was obscenely r8ch or you were able to save your pocket money for a 1000 years. What really makes me laugh is the high level track that actually went nowhere and the tracks under it that also terminated at the end of the board. I. Still wondering what the r number is for the rich dads pipe. I can see it now R671s , Briar pipe with smoke 5/3d

Oscar..always good to see..have you thought of ballasting and scenery?

Hi again Oscar lovely collection you have , do you have any locomotives in the big four livery; I personally prefer the LMS , GWR LNER and the southern livery’s … 👍🏻👍🏻

Hi Oscar, I think that the cable drums are very early Tri-ang? I have a set with black plastic ends and silver cable centers.. These came new on an early (Mk 2 coupler) 4 wheel flat wagon.. I have Pirelli cable printed logos made up for these.. I'll send you some by email, to cut out and glue on when you get a chance?

Hello again Oscar. Were Triang unique in selling steam locos with their tenders in separate boxes and shown as separate items in the catalogue? I don't recall Trix or Dublo doing it in the 1950s and 60s? regards Paul

11/6 equals 57.5p in "new" money. That means that buying a carriage today is approximately x 100 more expensive than in 1960! I'm not naïve, and am well aware that modern product is far better detailed, comes with metal wheels and may possibly have lighting, but even allowing for inflation - Jeez!!!!!!! And in any case, the ones you have still look really good.

Those cable drums: pyramid toys trackmaster? Reason why is the whopping great triangle or pyramid emblem on them, only caught a glimpse though, but don't know if triang had that emblem or not