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Hi John,

I did not know that I was going to marry a German girl almost 30 years ago!

Anyway, working for the German Railways, was something I could not resist.
(getting paid for doing your hobby).

Cheers, Bill.

The BR 52 Kriegs Locomotive was built in Vienna in 1944. I was on the footplate and it taks from cold to running about 10 hours work! We travelled to the Westwall (Siegfried Line) on two flat wagons pulled by this locomotive. http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a639/Bill_Medland/Westwall_zps0906bba8...

As well as the mock battles, we had the use of 7 railway stations on a really long branchline. The high point was Wehrmacht soldiers on flatcars carrying motorcycles etc to the West Wall fortifications! It was really a Dutch version of Pickering, that is how I could best discribe it. http://i1287.ph...

At the weekend I took part in a WW2 Railway event in the Dutch town of Simpelveld. It was the first ever event at this location and also our first mock battle for the steam railway. Link to the battle..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8bgW8Oksw http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a639/Bill_Medl...

I think the composition of plastics changed about 1958? Anyway, it was about 1958 that Triang got better. The early locos and wagons were very brittle. In fact all roofs of early Rovex coaches have "banana roofs". I have not used the grey plastic points, they are stacked up in their origin...

The rolling stock can still function normal, it is only the points that have given real problems, derailings. the standard track pieces are warped, but they can be dealt with by being solidly screwed down. Plastics, mainly plastics from the 1950s, will try to revert to their previous chemical state ...

I have had a problem with the standard grey track, after over 60 years the plastic has shrunk. Between two pieces of track when joined, the gap in the plastic can be as much as 6mm. This may not seem much, but with points it can be critical. (6mm in the length could be 1mm in the width). gap.JPG Che...

Hi Chris,

I dont have a water trough, thanks for putting my nose on it.

I will be looking through my old catalogues again

Cheers, Bill.

Returning to this thread I have realised it is a photo thread, I will try to get some more images uploaded when time allows. In my photos at the start of the thread I was laying two Triang tracks side by side, one series 3 and the other standard grey track. However I have now merged both track type...

Not only is the grey track finished, but the Hornby Dublo 3 Rail is also laid...... next project the Hornby 0 Guage track!

Thanks Jim, That is a help, because I want to finish laying the track before I start out on looking for the buildings. Just as a matter of interest, there is a following of Hornby Dublo in Germany still today. I have met a few of them on the BRITISCHE BAHN FORUM, nice to see Dublo and Triang in fore...

I had only ever run 2-rail, mostly Rovex-Triang and I had this N2(3-rail version) that has stayed on the shelf for about 30 years, it was mixed in with a very large box of of 0 guage stuff which I still have. Anyway, this N2 stayed on the shelf, although once a year it would be layed on its back and...

Almost every day something from ebay arrives (dont tell the wife).......



Here are the beginings of a Terminus Station....



Cheers, Bill.

Hornby Dublo (3-Rail) added Hi Forum, Some of you will know that I have two layouts, my Triang one, running on Standard, Series 3 and Super 4 track, will now be reduced from double lines, to single line. The area freed up will now contain Dublo 3-Rail. It will still in effect remain double tracked ...

I have had this N2 loco on my shelf for about 25 years and I had never run it because I did not have any 3 rail track. However, I purchased about 3 foot of Dublo track for 99p on e-bay (very lucky) and gave the loco a very short run forwards and backwards and it went brilliantly.... wow, I have been...