A £7 Train Set | Working on Hornby Track? 

Congratulations, you have a new tester locomotive for troubleshooting track or to see what new stock will do in the layout

Never really been interested in model trains until I found this channel. Now I’m hooked 😅

Sam: "Conjunction. Haven't heard that one repeated multiple times." Me, remembering Schoolhouse Rock: "Conjunction Junction, What's your function?"

A full rake of British Chemical Comical wagons would be hilarious. Great stuff Sam, many thanks.

This looks like something you'd find in a $2 shop or the forbidden part of Kmart

This actually seems like a train set from the 80s to me. This set is does look pretty good. Great review Sam!

Interesting fact: I got this train set when I was about 7. I put a mk1 brake on the track and thought, wow! This is amazing! Then I put it on my OO gauge layout at the time. The only bad bit was that I got it for £8!

Thank you for inspiring me to repair my cheap toy train even though the track it came with is broken because you have shown me that it works on OO gauge. thank you.

British rolling stock. American engine. Right, all is in order.

Son: Mom can i get a HO model train set? Mom: No we already have one at home HO model train set at home:

11:05 well as a proud owner of one of these, you have to press function 8 on your NMRA standard DCC controller to activate sound

"super classical choochoo" i lost it then Xd

I'm genuinely adding this to my Christmas wish list. Amazing what cheap trains can do sometimes.

there used to be some really cool cheap HO scale/OO compatable cheap train sets made by a company New Ray that used to be sold as souvenirs at local train museums here in the States. I found a few on Ebay, and I used to have a few as a kid. They had several different models that were available, and If I recall they were relatively good runners considering they were powered by a single AA battery. When I was little there were also battery operated HO scale trains that the dollar store used to sell around Christmas time.

I love the fact they just printed literally what was on their mind when the whole train was conjunction it still didn't make any sense 🤣🤣🤣

This made me chuckle a lot Sam, especially with the screw that holds the loco body on discreetly/subtly hidden!! Lol. Loved seeing it pull a rake of 5 Pullman coaches! You missed out one vital piece of the review, namely: "Into the log book it goes then......!" Hilariously, Pete :)

Came across your channel recently by accident. LOVE it! I particularly like your kind, upbeat nature. I feel many happy hours are yet to come.

SUPER CLASSICAL CHOO CHOO!

Good one Sam..amazing strength pulling those 5 coaches.

THIS TRAIN HAS A BRILLIANT USE AS FOLLOWES: If you have the oo gauge Dapol track cleaner and want the vacuum on full power but don't want a loco pulling it around too fast on full power then connect the dapol track cleaner to the engine and ''jobs a gudden''. You can also wire in a dimmer switch/rheostat to vary the speed and make it even slower. I did mine and it's proved it weight in gold.

🎶conjunction junction, what's your function🎶

Simple maths tells me that the 10 curves are 36 degrees each 😉

15:42 good to see the cow catcher works

Thomas:*sees it running on the layout* Also thomas: mistakes were made.

0:46 MY EYES! THE HORROR!

I believe the set was designed by the Skeksis just after the 1st great conjunction.

Thank you for posting. Awesome to see the battery operated loco do really well on a layout!

I bought an engine off amazon for £8, I wanted to make a roughly O gauge for a project (I was going to try and merge 2 together), turns out it was O gauge (untested) and runs quite well, I removed the internals of a remote control car and installed it. One of my most successful projects!

'Conjunction has occurred' should be a new t shirt design! 🤣🤣🤣

Merry Christmas Sam! :)

I bought a set from this range as an Xmas pressie for my 5 year old great nephew, and he loves it. Paid £14 at the East Lancs Railway's hit shop.

What a neat little train! And quite entertaining. Thankyou.

I want one! .....the engine does some how have a charm all of its own.....£7:50 it’s a not too shabby! Cheers

6:01 well when the contents (or lack thereof) of that chemical van leak it will be quite comical

this is fascinating back in 2012 ish I found something very similar to this the tracks were the same it only had one carriage which has the same mold as one here but the train itself was very similar to the locomotive that the character hiro was based on so back then I tried to make it look similar and I think I still have that set somewhere packed up

Won one of these in an arcade game ages ago. Love running it on my OO layout for fun

Battery operated train on hornby track, ill be watching this later to see how thats possible!

OMG that is so cheap and works incredibly well

The engine on the back of the box is extremely similar to the cheap $5 sets we can find in America that run on HO gauge. Same couplers too.

Ideal and inexpensive starter Train Set for the very young. Designed to stimulate their interest early and if they break it, which most heavy handed youngsters will do, no great loss. My first "Train Set" arrived from my estranged father at an early age. Tri-Rail Hornby Dublo Duchess of Athol. Wish I still had it ... closing on sixty five years ago now. Catch 'em young.

I think I see next years April fools video 😂

Mabey do a series on cheep sets? Also maybe consider buying multiple if they are really cheap and making a rake, love ur vid and merry Christmas

great find , just a little weathering paint and you got yourself a great side track loc.

I've bought a G gauge battery operated set for the 5 year old I made the Thomas layout for with 18m of track. It's massive! I've tried a few of the £10 sets and he loves them.

Hey Sam could you do an Mallard and the a4s vs flying Scotsman and the a3s thanks- Rusty Craft

nobody: cheap a$$ train wagon: British Chemical Comical PLC underneath: a bunch of German markings, Deutsche Reichsbahn (German Reich's railways), Koln lmfao

This line of toy trains is internationally known as "Rail King", although it may have the more diverse names depending of the company (and the country) who imports. The importer chooses the configuration of rail layout and how much (And which) wagons will come with the loco, resulting in a diverse variety of configurations and price ratings. There's a French rail modeler and also an Indonesian, modding Rail King locos and wagons and using them in HO/OO layouts. The Indonesian modder "Big Boy 91" made a "Big Boy" version of the Rail King loco (Based on a Mikado) with 3 engines. The channels "Kereta Densha" and "Franzitrains" also show moddings made to these train sets.

Looks good .If you wanted to put together a small layout with something like a camp ground or a vintage car show with a vintage loco going around this seems like a fine way to do it.

ill stick with the normal hornby locomotives still good video

It's alright I guess.

Merry Christmas sam!!!

I'm utterly shocked that it worked so well on Hornby track, this thing is actually really cool for the price! Those phrases on the side too, hilarious haha! Great review Sam, I love when you look into cheap train sets like these!

And even the German at 6:02 has at least 3 Typos

5:18 köln is british now?

I love these cheap train sets. I had one once, it was a German tank locomotive HO. I finished it a little and painted black with red undercarriage and wheels and added the DB logo etc and showed it to my collector friend. He guessed that it was a Bachmann or Marklin. Then I let him hold it...utter shock. The thing was, it even ran at a realistic speed on 00 track, with nice slick gearing. It cost about £1.99. I actually used it in wargames for years, a lovely little piece. Sadly, I left the batteries in and it died. You really put me in a christmassy mood with this, thank you!

The other advantage (if you have a 3D printer) is that it would be super easy to make a simple wagon for this “set”, since there’s not much there to begin with. 😊

The sound could be the regret in your voice complimenting the set

This entire video is absolutely unbelievable. God I've never laughed so hard at a train video. The train for people who CANT STOP WONT STOP

Great video Sam and its quite interesting to see a cheap and cheerful train from a battery being compatible with the Hornby track system. Nice and clever as it will allow any kids to run their trains on their Granddad's layout if he let's them. Nice mod at the end as well mate. Ash.

Very interesting and enjoyable. Made me curious, how much of a layout could be done on the cheap using materials around the house and garage. Maybe using small cardboard boxes with photos of buildings glued on, old pipes as tunnels etc Would be a great project to tackle with youngsters.

When we lived in the USA we bought a $12 train set from Ebay. It was similar to what you have here - but it was O gauge, with an electrically operated, steam outline loco and a working headlamp, plus three wagons. It runs on AA batteries. We have now owned it for ten years and every year it runs around our Christmas tree. Some stickers have peeled off and bits of track broke and have been glued but what the heck. Twelve bucks!!

the people behind this set must love the film 'oh mr porter' and the shunter Gladstone, look at the size of the funnel!!

I remember watching your "cheapest trainset ever" video ages ago, a similar set arrived from Amazon today and so I re-watched that video and then saw this, randomly, I was considering this set... I plan to 3D print custom track, make it WiFi controlled using an ESP8266 chip and a webcam so it can be controlled over the internet, thanks for showing this set, I may buy this one too. Rolling stock looks super easy to model and 3D print too!

Thanks for the upload. For further improvements, try adding small weights inside the rolling stock carriages, which might provide better traction. When you initially tried it, the engine was okay, maybe due to the weight of the batteries. Anyway, have a Happy New Year. I'm hoping to watch more of your videos and relive my childhood :)

Sam great video the only thing I see wrong with this set was no tender for engine still with it have a Merry Christmas and happy New year.

I would never have thought that it would actually work on the track like it did. I got the limited edition Black 5 through this week and it is a beauty of a loco

I’m just watching this engine as it comes around, it sees the rolling stock as a well, just goes “outta my way!” And trundles on like nothing happened. You go loco!

Sam , since you seem to have reviewed a couple of starter train sets for young children , it might be worth looking at some of the even more basic sets available for pre school toddlers , which might foster an interest in trains from an even earlier age . I can’t remember the brand of the set my son got when he was about three , but it came from either Mothercare or Early Learning Centre and had a battery loco which ran on wooden track . There were numerous sets available with bridges , curves etc and the wooden track pieces joined together with simple ‘jigsaw’ type links . I see Argos now sell a Chad Valley set for around £12 and IKEA used to sell compatible sets for just a few pounds . These sets got my young son interested in train sets , and he moved on to now have a decent size OO/HO layout with ever increasing locos and rolling stock . Since any of these sets can foster future interest in the hobby , it might be worth reviewing some for the benefit of parents/grandparents who might be looking to buy for young family members

I studied German at school, so I can help with some of the (surprisingly sensical) translations, some of which are spelt incorrectly. I was able to work out Ladegut=Load, flüssiges Chlor= liquid Chlorine, Deutsche Reichsbahn= German State Railway, Koln= Cologne, Rauminhalt= capacity and Ladegewicht= payload.

Really enjoyed this, Sam :) I've got a few of these sets (you can also buy the variant that has the tender included for a longer train). The loco appears to be an American mogul without the front axle... I'm looking at a way to fit one. With a little work and a re-spray the loco actually looks quite good. I've even built a layout with this track...You can cut the connections off and just glue the tracks down to the baseboard when you want to change direction of the curves. It's a good thing these are cheap as I manged to melt a loco when attempting to create a smoke generator...lol. I'll have a video up in the new year with more. All the best mate and Merry Christmas :))

Me: mom can I get the HO scale Bachmann SD70ACE? My Mom: no, son. we have it one on home but you never use it The abandoned Bachmann HO SD70ACE at home:

The most basic train set I ever had was a battery-operated Lima HO/OO one in about 1970: a basic oval of track, loco and two carriages, the controller had a rheostat to vary the speed.

Thank you Sam very much for you channel. My 3 year old walks around with his trains copying you reviewing various trains. Thank you very much

That bit at the end was so worth it!

I was hoping to get one for Christmas but … Great video. If you glued a small stick from the on/off switch to the cab window it would look like an engineer’s instrument. Possibilities are endless.

Cheers mate. I did like the fact that the steam loco has a front light. Shame Hornby don't add lights to their steam locos. I'm also impressed you were able to electrify it, so that it ran off the controller and also, add Hornby couplings! Although not very realistic to look at, it wasn't a bad looking loco for 7 quid, and with a bit of modification, would run quite well on a proper layout mate. Quite impressive really mate! Cheers for the vid!👍🚂🚃🚃🚃🚄🚅🚉🍺😁👍

I love the use of vocabulary terms for this train set! :P So creative and funny! xD

The ridged wheels might be 'the Sound' as the old dock shunter had corrugated wheels to sound like a diesel.

i wanted a similar train set at a store. But i didnt have the money with me at the time. I was so detirmant to get the train set i got the money ready and waited till we will go to the store again about a few days leter we go to the store a lot of days have gone into this moment and i was so happy to get the chep 10 euro train set then i came into the store and the train was gone. Lol also keep up the good work sam!

I got one of these battery operated train sets, they seem to be good value and you don't have to worry about wiring the layout, short circuits etc. The models seem to be nearer to the old TT scale in size, even though they run on OO/HO gauge track. A class 66 Euro style Diesel locomotive, would be a good choice to give the set a more up to date image.

Yes I would love to buy one train set

I have or had 2 of these 1. The one in the video but different rolling stock and liveries where just complete black 2. Its like hiro from thomas and had the same coaches as the one i had but different freight and it had different track i remember hiro emitting a big smell and the hiro set had scenery and they both had tenders

Well my gasted is well and truly flabberd, it worked. A nice bit of conjuntioning in the time lapse I must say, keep up the madness it holds the rivet counters at bay.

Nice! I had a lot of battery operated trains as a kid.

What a brilliant little train 😁👍

That was incredible

For some reason, and this goes for all my hobby interests, ie. Guitar, motorbikes etc., I find the absolute cheap stuff the most interesting. I think the cheap battery operated set fir under 20$ that I might be able to get two or three if and handily build a large train that children could actually be allowed to play with might be the trick for the wedding train set idea. That “Classic train set one you did would be perfect t and I’ve seen some models that look identical with different brand names that include more cars. A couple sets of those I think would make a great fun display train. I can save starting up a real model for later after the caterers paid for!

Nice for powercuts I guess. It running on its own power reminds me of a wind up one my grandad had that fit on my Hornby set.

More like this please!

Two days ago I bought a 2 car bul electric from Hornby in line southern livery and wow it is amazing Also thanks for the great reviews this year I bought four trains from your reviews 😀

Great video Sam it is good to get something cheap but also something that works with other brands too

5:19 The Wagon just said Deutsche Reichsbahn😂 ( An old Name of the German Railway) 😂😂😂

Lovely video sam funny how it stopped on Gordon's hill

god bless whoever put in effort to get this

For the rolling stock a typical for Airfix plastic wagons the cheat - which was difficult, was to fit either Peco needle-point plastic wheels or romford or similar metal wheels running in inserted brass cup bearings - the difficulty getting the mid-point of the axle into the correct height on all four axle boxes above rail level

Hi Sam, a really great review of a cheap battery train set which is running on OO/H0 tracks. Clockwork trains are running on the tracks too I think. You are able to improve the running of the beautiful two blue Pullman coaches and the Comical car and the grey New Car if you use the well known self-adhesive metal weights inside. More of such cheap similar train sets will be offered on Amazon for experienced railway modellers.

I wonder if the hooked end of an NEM coupling would fit in the hole on the last car in the set. Then maybe it could pull a cheap OO scale wagon around. Maybe one of the flat wagons from the John Bull set (or was it the Stephenson’s Rocket set, I can’t remember)?

I actually have one just like that, except it’s a d51 loco with two wood cars I own a Bachman Thomas and it works well on that track

There’s something extremely satisfying with this

If you have still got this you can use a loom band as a traction tyre so it can pull more plus the tender since I got just the engine for 50 p and it didn’t run so I used the loom band and some weight and now it runs fine. Ethan