Marx and The Hornby Cousin

I do have a number of British Marx, the one in this video is one of my favorites although the loco is not Marx, it's a perfect match.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1oAprWtN4

Have a few other British Marx sets also. I have roughly 35-40 Hornby pieces at the moment. One electric French Hornby set and the rest British. Maybe 4 boxed sets plus misc. cars. Very nice stuff.

Steve

Hey Electroliner, what's that racy, British racing green auto you're teasing us with?

In prewar Hornby in a big way, Bruce... I'll try to get some photos this weekend..

First discovered Hornby through their accessories... some of the coolest stations, loco sheds, switch cabins, and numerous small buildings.  All with a British flavour.  Milk transport vans, brake vans (cabooses), even fibre wagons... a whole new nomenclature and a lot of fun.  All from the inventor of Meccano.

I would have to say, generally higher quality build and litho than Marx, though.

don't miss the Hornby video thread named "A Short film to watch" here in Tinplate.

David

I enjoy Hornby, also, and have some locomotives, rolling stock and structures. For instance, here are locomotives "Princess Elizabeth", "Caerphilly Castle", an engine shed and a signal box. The nose of a Hornby clockwork tank engine is sticking out of the shed. 

I have a Hornby switch tower, but drool over the Hornby engine sheds. Someday maybe.

Steve

Some of my Hornby & other Euro pieces.

Here are a couple of British Marx sitting at the #21 French Hornby Bordeaux Station.

Hornby M1 Goods set.

Hornby Tank Goods Set #45

Hornby goods train. No box, but this all came together.

Mettoy Passenger Set

JEP loco & tender, repowered by a Hafner motor and British Marx pre war coaches.

Distler passenger set.

Great photos, everyone.

Here's the station featured in the film Arkwright posted. I believe it dates to the immediate PW period. The lithography is fascinating, right down to the dogs on the platform.

Wow..I am really enjoying these photos and I am reassured I am not the only one that caught the Hornby virus.

Jayjay

The buildings among your collection are terrific. I am especially enamored of that Switch Tower..and that engine shed is amazing.That has to be the finest tinplate building I have ever seen. 

Trains are Me

That car is friction driven and if I could find the beat up box I could tell you who made it. I think it's Italian, roughly O sized and is in pretty amazing shape. Tinplate cars are another area of collecting that fit in with the trains. My next layout will be all clockwork tinplate ( thats the plan of the day) so I am ( over the past year) have been collecting stuff as the one small tinplate layout I have is separate from the main layout, and is devoted to clockworks.

now those are beautiful!

A few of my French Hornby and JEP

tcox009

Is that a JEP railbus? Very cool. It looks like it's equipped with a pantograph(?)

Bruce

Bruce, that rail bus is a an Autorail, based on a real unit made by Bugatti.  What looks like a pantograph in the photo is the driver's cab, which was in the centre of the vehicle, above the roof line.  The real trains were in operation on French railroads from the early 30s tolate 50s.  Many versions were made by Hornby and JEP in 0 gauge.

Graeme

It's a pre-war Hornby in PLM markings.  Here's an unusual Hornby for export to Argentina with FCCA markings

Nice building collection, Hojack!

This is my first acquired Hornby locomotive, a clockwork tank, LMS #623, from 1928 or so. I picked it up at a hobby store that was going out of business, about 20 years ago. I didn't know anything about it...I just thought it was cute.

jayjay, I agree, something about the combination of British style outlines and the overall proportions of the Hornby models, makes them distinctly different and very appealing.

Here's the short engine shed, the Windsor Station, foot bridge, and water tower:

What really fascinated me about my Windsor Station was the lithography.  

From the "Track side", nice detail, very British and all, and you can see through the center opening to the street side, with a car pulling up:

When you turn the station around, there's the same car and in the same position, but seen from the street side.

I hadn't come across American lithography that had done that.  Very cool.

Here's a few more Hornby odds and ends:  Their prewar "Plate Layers' shack", a billboard (which they call "hoarding"!!), a single semaphore, and a loading gauge that looks a bit like Ives' low bridge telltale.  Fun stuff.

I agree...there's something about this lithography that's special. The station I posted above has the same visual effect, where the image on the trackside is correctly dimensionally depicted on the streetside; people, offices, etc. It's a fascinating detail.

I have anumber of clockwork Hornby trains that I purchased primarily on Canadian and UK e-bay.  A good seller is "The Stationmasters Room" on UK e-bay.  The only downside is the high postage cost but there is so much more variety that makes it worthwhile.  bertiejoa

Hornby Crane