MEGA Lot of Vintage British Locomotives - Let's See What Works!

I've been looking to expand the amount of British locomotives in my collection for a while now and I managed to find a lot on eBay which had most of what I wanted. I wasn't sure if any of these vintage locomotives would even start but it seems we've got a few promising ones. I suspect some haven't run in over 25 years so they're gonna need some work.

0:00 Intro
0:48 Unboxing
10:58 Testing
24:33 Ending

[dansmodelrailways]

Harrison: hope this helps.
01:13 Stanier Tri-ang tender for princess Victoria
01:19 Stanier tender
01:31 tri-ang standard 3 tank loco body
01:53 Tri-ang princess Victoria loco circa 1960
02:29 British Rail class 29 diesel shell
02:50 British rail Warship bodyshell, bachmann model.
03:14 southern region S15 was named ‘sir Dinadan’ number 795.
03:42 Lima Western Hydraulic. Good repaint.
04:22 another tri-ang stanier tender
04:32 Airfix castle class loco.
05:18 Class 08 bodyshell triang
05:36 Triang blue pullman dummy car
05:59 Ringfield motor. Its a spare for the Intercity 125.
06:09 Triang tender for a B12 loco.
06:18 GWR pannier tank.
06:37 Triang tender for a flying scotsman
06:44 brown tender is scratch built top/triang chassis. Great western tender is for a ‘lord of the isles’ loco.
06:57 Triang tender for ‘Queen Maud’
07;13 triang princess elizabeth. Tender already unwrapped
07:27 triang princess Repaint, ‘queen maud’
07:47 scratch built body? On a modified triang chassis
08:12 Hornby Black 5. Tender drive, tender missing
08:28 Another triang stanier tender
08:36 Another Triang B12 tender
08:43 spare triang power bogie for triang class 31
09:04 Triang class 31. Spare bogie unwrapped at 08:43
09:36 Dummy power car Intercity 125 (High speed train)
10:18 powered car for HST

Hope that helps mate
Regards
Dan

[m_isherrrr]

"Well folks in today's video"Will never get old<3

[captaincool]

As a OO modeller from Aus, I might be able to help identify these for you. I really liked the video. Based on the image at 11:10 (Left to right and top to bottom): Top Row- Hornby tender drive Black Five/ 5MT from the 70s, matched with a 60s Triang B12 tender; Triang Hornby class 08 shunter bodyshell, looks 70s or 80s; Triang Blue Pullman dummy power car, 60s; 2nd Row- Triang 2-6-2T 3MT tank, 60s; Hornby Intercity 125; Hornby class 29 bodyshell, 70s, the Bo-Bo motor bogie in row 6 goes with it; 3rd Row- Airfix Castle, 80s, looks renumbered/renamed; Lima class 52 Western, looks repainted/renamed/renumbered, 80s; Triang Co-Co power bogie- suitable for class 31, 37 or EM2; Row 4- Kit made (?) NBR Atlantic, know little about it, but it uses a Triang princess chassis; Mainline warship class 42 bodyshell, 80s; Row 5- Hornby 57xx pannier tank (8750 subclass), 70s/80s, mint but looks to have missing buffers and chimney cap; the matching Hornby Intercity 125; Hornby 'Sir Dinadan' with matching tender, 70s; Row 6- Triang Hornby class 31 (Co-Co power bogie could be source of spares), 70s; Triang 'Princess Victoria', 60s, the tender is a later 70s Mainline/Airfix one from the Royal Scot, its matching tender is actually the middle one from the 5 spare tenders; Bo-Bo bogie for class 29; Bottom Row- Triang Maroon princess and tender, looks like the loco was repainted to match the tender, 60s, would've been 'Princess Royal' in maroon; Triang black Princess Elizabeth with tender, these have been partially repainted with the red lining, but it looks ok, 60s. Also, the spare tenders are (from left to right): Hornby Dublo A4 tender (repainted green), 40s-60s; Hornby Railways Princess tender in LMS maroon, 70s, Triang Princess tender, 60s; Triang GWR tender, matches 'Lord of the Isles', 60s; a Triang B12 tender, repainted.

[williammcgeehan]

Those Inner City 125 ( HST ) were introduced in Britain in the early 1970's and were very successful for British Rail. They went up against another design called an APT. APT was a tilting train to ease the transition on curves at speed.

[PuuberZ]

Great to see some British loco's on the channel.

[JOSHJUNCTION]

Nice lot of locomotives! I joined the platform mid summer and your videos are a joy to watch when you post!

[leeludlowart]

Your Videos are so much fun to watch and you present them brilliantly. Thank you and hello from Nottingham England. Loved this video.

[historyotaku]

I have to say what an amazing haul and I'd be lying if I wasn't a bit jealous. I'm always on the lookout for Bitish stock this side of teh pond and have only to this date managed to acquire to locomotives, A Triang Flying Scotsman and a Triang M7. Here is what I believe everything is.

1:55 - Triang LMS "Princess", this engine is rather special in that it was the first mass produced plastic OO gauge steam locomotive in the UK. The chassis of the first run was much different but the body is more or less the same.

1:31 - Shell of a Triang BR Standard Class 3 Tank Engine.

2:32

2:51 - Mainline Class 42 "Warship".

3:15 - Triang Southern Railway N15 "King Arthur" Class.

3:51 - Lima BR Class 52 "Western"

4:34 - Airfix Great Western Railway 6000 "King Class".

5:20 - Shell of a Triang BR Class 08.

5:39 - Triang Blue Pullman DMU Dummy Car

6:00 - Hornby Ringfield motor bogie for a diesel.

6:09 - Tender for a Triang LNER B12.

6:19 - Triang GWR 57xx Pannier Tank Engine

6:44 - The top tender is a kitbash/ custom and the bottom is the tender for a Triang GWR 3031 Class, specifically "Lord of the Isles" No. 3046.

7:12 - Another Triang Princess.

7:31 - Another Triang Princess

7:52 - A custom model, of what I believe to be an NBR Atlantic, the tender from 6:44 goes with it.

8:14 - A Hornby LMS Black 5, this particular model is tender driven.

8:45 - The power bogie of a Triang diesel.

9:07 - Triang Class

9:35 - Hornby Intercity 125

11:31-You actually got pretty to matching the tender with their locomotives, The only one you got wrong is the Princess in teh 2nd row should have the BR Lined Black Tender (it says British Railways on the tender and has red and white lining).

[OTRWA]

Cheers SMT for the unboxing and the peeps that commented to uncover the origins and details of the items of course.

[leverettrailfan]

I had one of those GWR pannier tanks, I sold it a few months ago. I paid next to nothing for it, and got it running great, but I just never used it much and I didn't have anything for it to pull. In the end I put it up for sale online (it had the original box and papers) expecting to receive an offer or two... and then shortly after listing, somebody bought it for the list price! I think I had it performing as good as it was ever going to get, reasonably smooth for the sort of drive it had, and as quiet as I could get it. Another reason I could justify parting with it was that while it could manage 18" radius curves, it didn't particularly like them and you could see it slow down a little while it squeezed through them. I hope it's new owner is having a lot of fun with it, and I hope you get yours running! It was very simple inside, very similar to the drives in Mantua steam locomotives but less smooth and quiet. Iirc mine had a 3 pole motor.

[jolla]

Derailments will be from wheel flanges, OO is bigger than HO. The wheel flanges catch on just about everything.

[MrBnsftrain]

1:28 that's the body for a BR standard 3MT tank engine
2:28 North British Type 2, also called the class 21
3:10 that is an N15 class that had the name "Sir Dinadan"
3:53 the "Westerns" are cool diesel-hydraulic locomotives. They all had 'Western' in their name and worked on the former GWR lines
4:43 Airfix was a separate company hence why you see pre-built model trains with their name. This engine is a Great Western 4000 class which were also known as "Star class"
5:18 these little diesels are the Class 08, and they have rodded wheels like a steam engine
6:16 a GWR 57xx pannier tank! The most iconic GWR tank engine with over 800 built
7:45 that does look like a custom-made engine, a north British H class
It seems like tenders for British locomotives are more common than the locomotives themselves. I have two British tenders (one Tri-ang, one Bachmann from the Flying Scot set) but no locomotive

[the_autism_express]

I think I can help identify those engines' classes for you (not counting the tenders)
Loco #1: LMS 3MT 2-6-2T
Loco #2: LMS princess royal class
Loco #3: BR class 29
Loco #4: BR class 42 (aka, warship class)
Loco #5: southern railway king Arthur class
Loco #6: BR class 52
Loco #7: GWR castle class
Loco #8: BR class 08 (kinda ironic)
Loco #9: blue Pullman DMU
Loco #10: GWR 5700 class pannier tank
Loco #11: LMS princess royal class
Loco #12: LMS princess royal class
Loco #13: NBR class H
Loco #14: LMS Stanier class 5
Loco #15: BR class 31
Loco #16: BR class 43 HST
Loco #17: BR class 43 HST

Hope this helped

[trackxorailfan]

British steam locomotives are so beautiful

[garysprandel]

Ebay: here's an auction lot of parts locomotives.
Harrison: challenge accepted.
Harrison a lot of those freewheeling steamers are built as that with the power unit in the tender. Had a fellow from across the pond in our model railroad club in the 80s that ran a lot of British stock and also a long time friend that ran a lot of Thomas stuff for the kids at shows. Still get a laugh about the time at a show where Gordon the bigger engine derailed and was shoved up the up the platform of a depot snuffing out several HO scale lives in the process while the tender and train continued on it's merry way oblivious to the scale carnage it left in it's wake

[Tobeshadow]

Very cool lot/video! As I live in the UK, I always enjoy seeing your Canadian/US locos (I have very little knowledge of them!) so was a treat to see you open things I know a bit better. At 5:35 is a Triang Blue Pullman, very desirable models even now! What you have looks to be the dummy car as the wheels are all plastic. The power car has a motor on the front bogie with metal wheels (plastic on the rear), otherwise it looks the same as the dummy.

You should be able to find a power car reasonably cheaply but the coaches are a different matter entirely. They tend to fetch pretty high prices. Well worth the spend though, they look fantastic running. Not bad going for a 60+ year old model. The real sets carried either 4 or 6 coaches in between the power cars.

3:30 is Hornby R154 (called the King Arthur class loco, they all have names of King Arthur's Knights, this one is Sir Dinadan) a superb runner when serviced. Won't identify any more here as this comment will become War and Peace but enjoy the new locos! Toby

[jorgel.fernandeziii]

Not only did (“Air-Fix”) make model trains, they also made model planes, model cars, and model boats as well as the ever popular and famous at one time visible V-8, as well as some of the finely 1/72 Military and Armor ! So far, what I’ve seen is all Hornby, Air-Fix, Lima, or Trix ! Most of original Märklín is 3 Rails like Lionel ! All OO/HO !! The advantages that you have are that (“American HO”) is 1/87 scale, while British-
OO is 1/72 Scale ! Still close enough to work together ! Interesting fact;
In 1940 Lionel also had OO
GAUGE BUT @ 1/76 scale !
The corridor on the old original NCIS; Doc “Ducike” had a locomotive above his desk if you remember ever watching the show ??? 🌊🐺

[Jamie]

The lima marron western with the broken motormount/chassis plate. I recently designed and 3d printed a replacement chassis part. Involves grafting the replacement to the original but easy job for you. And cheaper than sourcing a complete chassis. Happy to send you the file or even a print if needed.

[earlwidmeyer]

It would be great to see some Viewer mail there Harrison!!

[namehere]

The green diesel shunter uses the same type of chassis as the small tank engine you've got there. As for the black 4-6-0 I believe those were tender driven for the most part, though a friend of mine did put a motor in the engine as it's got the room for it.