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[Mr Skrunts]

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1224361023/45#45

Just reading through the above thread and wondered how many of you still have train sets.

I was born in 1961 and my Mum and Dad from what I gather bought me a train set shortly after.

This was a hornby Britannia steam loco with 3 Pullman coacheds and the Royal Mail coach with working sack catchers and the Loco developed real smoke.  For sentimentall reasons I still have the Loco and the coaches/post truck, but I sold miles of track and building that I had colleced when I was 18 (Big Mistake)

[Mr Skrunts]

Not sure if these pics are from the same year but the details got worse as time went on.

[Marks DTM Calib]

I dont have a train set but, my little lad does  

[mantahatch]

Born in 1965, and have had, and still got tons of scalextric.

Mike

[Marks DTM Calib]

Getting rid of the track when you did is probably not a bad thing as it would most likely have been steel which rusts and causes running issues.

The latest nickel silver track is much better  

[Kevin Wood]

A couple of Christmasses ago I was staying with my cousin in Norwich. It so happened that his business had an empty industrial unit so we pooled all the Scalextric sets in the family and friends and created a huge track. Straight must have been 50 metres long!

My dad made me a train set for my 4th birthday.

Kevin

[cem_devecioglu]

I had one very nice but mother gave it for a children organization few years ago..

Anyway I'm too big to play

[Mr Skrunts]

I dont have a train set but, my little lad does  

Wondered how many times I would see that reply.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Born in 1960 .I was a Scalextric kid.
Red mini's with white roofs......monte carlo colours.
Train sets far too slow for me at that time......although I remember having great fun playing with my best friends "Dads" set in his loft, it was huge with mountains and tunnels,signal box etc etc.
My frinds father would blow a whistle to get the trains going.....whilst wearing his station masters cap..........is that sad?.

[Richie London]

i reckon mines still in my mums loft somewhere. i did get my son a scalextric for his 1st birthday yrs ago. he wasnt interested in it so i played with it  

[The Red Baron]

I had a OO/HO set that took up most of my bedroom until i thought i would downsize to N guage, that also ended up taking most of the room. Am currently building the flying scotsman in O guage. still a kid at 42.  

[MickAP]

I had quite a few train sets handed to me when my father-in-law moved house, he had a complete set up in his loft.
As he had no room to set it all up again and also he had given up with it all because of his age it all got packed away and forgotten about.
When I took ownership I set a couple of them up for my son but he was not really interested in them, cars more his thing.
So they sat in my loft for years before I eventually took a couple of engines to a train collectors fair and they gave me a price of what they considered they were worth.
Anyway 3 years ago I took it upon myself to clear the loft and sell whatever was up there, train sets and all.
What a big suprise that was, they sold very quickly on ebay (wish I had more to sell) I didn't think trains were still as popular.
They were mainly Hornby and Lima.
And I think most went to older men and collectors as well.

Mick

[Martin_1962]

Quick list

Diesel
Mainline 03
Vulcan 04
A1 05
Lima 08
Bachmann 08
Bachmann 20
Bachmann 24
Hornby 25
Triang 31
Airfix 31
Bachmann 37
Bachmann 42
Mainline 45
Mainline 45/1
Mainline 46
Hornby 47
Heljan 47
LIma 50
LIma 50
LIma 52
LIma 55
Mainline 56

Triang 101
DC Kits 101
Hornby 110
Lima 117
DC Kits 128

Airfix railbus

GWR
14xx
Modified Hall
Small Prairie
53xx

LMS
3F
Jubilee

LNER
A3

BR
4MT 4-6-0
4MT 2-6-0
9F

Over 80 coaches
Too many wagons to count

a very good alarm!

Just need to fix my railway

[waspy]

I don't recall ever having a Train Set :-/ I had the Scalextric with two Porsches, I wanted a TCR like my mate, but couldn't find one
I was more into Action Man & the like  

[Markjay]

I dont have a train set but, my little lad does  

Wondered how many times I would see that reply.

.... have only girls, hence no train set at present  

Did try to entice them with scalextric during Christmas a few of years ago, but with only limited success. Had to take it out in January due to space limitations, never built the track since...