Model Trains & Railways Blog

Having done a bit of research recently regarding entry level Hornby train sets, I thought I would put together a post detailing where there are bargains to be had on the high street.

There seems to be a real string of very similar entry levels train sets from Hornby at the moment, many are being released as exclusives for various mail order and high street stores and thanks to Woolworths for slashing the price of their Midland Flyer Train Set, it’s forced the other retailers to bring the sets in-line with Woolies.

You can currently pick up a new train set, complete with a little 0-4-0 steam locomotive, passenger carriage, lowmac and two other wagons for the timely sum of £39.99. You also get an oval of track with a siding, the power controller, loads of trackside accessories and a trakmat. The set also comes with a bunch of trackside bits and bobs such as buffers and signals etc.

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Model Trains

Following on from my first post detailing how I forgot to plan for the traverser, I have a couple of designs kindly drawn by Hugh again.

The first is the more labour intensive of the two and involves constructing a small spring mounted catch, which is used to lock the traverser which sits on draw runners.

Traverser Design 1

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My Layout

Here it is, my first ‘proper’ layout. Firstly I owe thanks to RMWeb member Hugh Flynn - whom I have named my layout after.  The guy is a legend and spends his free time designing model railway layout plans for free to other forum members. Thanks Hugh.

Layout overview

The layout is going to be set in the 80’s - 90’s to allow me to run some of my ever growing fleet of diesels and associated wagons. However it was apparent that I was going to have to make a few essential purchases in order to have the ‘correct’ type of stock - what a shame. Read more…

My Layout