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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

British steam locomotives are so beautiful

I love watching your videos

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).

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

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

SMT AND SAMSTRAINS CROSSOVER WHEN?!

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

That Southern engine running right away filled me with glee. I love lots like this

Very cool lot of British Rail Locomotives!!!

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.

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

Your channel always makes my day

Super cool, love seeing stuff from other countries

The hey folks will never get old

Nice haul! The Lima Class 52 “Western” and the Class 42 “Warship” (also looks to be a Lima model) are diesel hydraulic locos rather than diesel electric. The Class 42 owes a lot to the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railways) V200. The Airfix loco was made for them by Kadar in Hong Kong, who also manufactured models for Bachmann in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and made the Mainline series for UK toy company Palitoy. Great haul, btw.

Awesome mega lot 🚂👍🚅

The shunter is a class 08 one of the shunters nick named a Gronk. Black locomotive 5112 is a Stanier "black 5" it is a tender drive locomotive. "OObill" on RU-vid does a lot of repairs on English locomotives going back to Triang toys. I've learned a lot watching his videos.

Wow, some really nice looking locomotives. I hope you are able to get many of them running. Looking forward to those videos.. It was fun hearing your bits of excitement over the ones you expected nothing from and them showings of life. 😊

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.

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 ??? 🌊🐺

Hey we missed ya at the rail fanning in SmithFalls. Great unboxing keep it going 🇨🇦🚂🥓

Still have my InterCity 125 that I got in 1980 before we left the UK. Mine had one dummy and one powered unit. It still worked in the late 80s. Haven't tried it since then but it is on a display I built with a Deltic and a Hymek.

3:44 is a Western Class and was used on the western region of Britain running express passenger services from London down into Devon and Cornwall, I agree and I think they are amazing locos. They sound brilliant as well!!!

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

WOW . well heres one thing i looked up that shell in beginning is a Prairie loco that is by Hornby. then there is the Tri-ang Hornby OO R053 “Princess Victoria” 4-6-2 loco Y298 the other ones that are 4-6-2 locos id say are Tri-ang as well. sams trains even a older youtuber who been gone for a long time Johns amazing trains would love seeing these. something outside of the box for what i would model but still very cool.

Runners right out of the gate. I enjoyed the video!

That diesel shunter shell is a class 08

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.

Wow! I just saw the thumbnail and I know this’ll be great!

😱I cannot wait to see if you get any of these running

Super. I received an SNCF electric locomotive and a four wheel tank car one year from my parents, more than forty years ago, and bless their hearts, but I still don't know what to do with that locomotive and tank car on an American themed diesel and steam locomotive powered model railway layout. I even built a Kadee knuckle coupler to Maerklin (Marklin) Relex/loop coupler conversion Train Miniature flat car so that I could operate them. (Before knuckle conversion couplers.) Hello again from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

Just a heads up, some of those engines with the tenders that have the axles sticking through the plastic are triang models, they have thicker wheel flanges meaning that they may tend to derail on modern track. I could be wrong on that bc I believe they may have changed it up later on, but it is something to be wary of, and the green diesel shell isn’t compatible with the spare bogey you have

Great Haul with your magic they will run good someday:)

Nice haul the intercity 125 is a nice locomotive

oh wow

Very interesting lot. British rail is quite interesting.

I love these EBAY find videos ... keep them coming.

Nice video!

Ooh nice

The green and brown tender that has the words Great western belongs to a Hornby Dean single a 4-2-2 tender locomotive

finally some really good looking loco's

4:31 I love that one that one looks like Gordon from Thomas

love these videos

the tank loco is a 4-6-2 prairie loco the green shunter shell is an o-6-0

The thing with the triang sets they were designed to be toys so they often have little things that work like postal carriages and stuff that move them and drop them off and stuff but hornby was designed to be models. It’s often a good way to tell them apart.

Ever watched Thomas when you where younger? That's what the locomotives remind me of!

This is a nice collection of locomotives. Very nice sir!

I’m very excited to see that some of those engines work even if they need work, I cannot wait to see those British locomotives ride the rails once more, let’s hope we can get some really good runners out of those engines.

I got hornby The ranger 4-6-0 No. 46165 from January 2022.

1) "The LMS Princess Royal Class were designed by William Stanier having previously worked alongside Charles Collett for the GWR at Swindon. As a result of Stanier's connections to the GWR the Princess Royal Class shared a lot of characteristics with the GWR's King Class locomotives. No. 6205 'Princess Victoria' was built in July 1935 and remained in service until November 1961. In 1947 the locomotive was fitted with modified valve gear however this was removed again in 1955." 2) Class 84en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_84 3) "The British Rail Class 52 is a class of 74 Type 4 diesel-hydraulic locomotives built for the Western Region of British Railways between 1961 and 1964. All were given two-word names, the first word being "Western" and thus the type became known as Westerns. They were also known as Wizzos and Thousands" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_52#:~:text=The%20British%20Rail%20Class%2052%20is%20a%20class,They%20were%20also%20known%20as%20Wizzos%20and%20Thousands. 4) Shunter Classes 08-11 depending on internals 5) GWR o-6-0 Tank Engine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_0-6-0PT 6) Princess Elzabeth See Princess Royal class above Class also known as Lizzies 7) Queen Maud another Princess Royal "6211 Queen Maud entered traffic on 21 October 1935 allocated to Camden shed and fitted with the riveted 9-ton LMS tender, which it retained until the first heavy service at Crewe during July 1936 when a riveted 10-ton tender was attached. Fleetingly allocated to Crewe North at the outbreak of war in 1939, Queen Maud moved to the shed permanently on 22 May 1943 where it remained, apart from a two month stint at Edge Hill in 1956 until withdrawn on 7 October 1961." 8) #5112 "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Stanier_Class_5_4-6-0"

I can believe there was a pannier and a black five in that lot

I have a collection of modern Hornby models, including a Princess Royal which is very detailed and realistic. As much as I love that model, there is a charm to the old Triang Princess Royals (which you have 3 of). Hope you can get those riding the rails again! That extra Great Western tender appears to be from a Triang Lord of the Isles. If you can find the loco for it, it is a gorgeous one.

For that British Rails Class 08, I think Sam's Trains might have some parts for it.

Nice buy. Great video

Interesting haul! Never had a bri’ish locomotive, coming from the midwestern usa.

That "spare" two-axle bogie with the gears missing appears to be a spare from an IC125, as it has no coupling hook and has the cylindrical bits the same as the two IC125 cars. At a guess, a previous owner was trying to modify a front draw hook for one of those power cars, as they've cut into the lower nose. This was used whenever a set suffered a failure, as it allowed another locomotive to attach and 'drag' the IC125.

Very cool. I have the complete set in the box of a Hornby Intercity 225 which includes the loco, dummy & two pass. cars. This train is white, blue and red if I remember correctly.

I have 1 british locomotive and that's the smokey joe I love that engine and it's great to see this many locomotives that are british

I learned to love a lot of British trains after rewatching through the Thomas series a few years ago. You should check out Everard Junction.

Yay! I’ve been waiting to see some locomotives from across the pond! I can’t recall if you have some British locos already? Maybe a small 0-4-0 tank engine and a 4-6-0 tender engine with a huge nut in it?

nice to see someone interested in these seriously early Triang trains .J

as far as the orange Atlantic and its tender go, they appear to be custom built, specifically from a kit.

Harrison after looking it up that spare Great Western tender is indeed either a Triang or Hornby City of Truro

The green tank engine body is n ivatt 2mt

Just to throw a kink in the rails some of those British diesels are actually diesel hydraulic, which in the US was limited to the Krauss-Maffei units owned by Southern Pacific. Like a giant automatic transmission. Fun show!

excellent lot!!

Intetesting detail: the british Warship-Class is based on much of german technique and shares also much of their design with the german V200.

Most of these locos either have a ring field moter or an XO4 which where the 3 poles of there day so they run fast loud but are reliable so the ones that do work will work good

Most of them are all triang and imma guess some early Lima locos that look absolutely amazing

FYI: you can pull the top of the boiler off of the gwr pannier to access the motor if needed.

Man I wish I could visit you and see your amazing layout and talk steam brotha I've always been interested in trains my whole life

The 125 still holds the record as the fastest diesel loco.

Very cool lot! I can give you some info on some of those locomotives: The great western Tank engine is a 57XX The Blue Great Western 4-6-0 is either a King or a Castle class The Southern 4-6-0 is an N15 The three 4-6-2s are all LMS Princess Class locomotives These are just rough guesses based on visual analysis, but I hope that helps you with identifying some of them!

I think you should check out Sam's trains RU-vid channel. He does the the British engins.

This aged like a fine wine with the recent news of the Queen.

Great video and keep it

"Western Pathfinder" appears to be painted in Royal Claret, so possibly a special locomotive.

5:23 that is a class 08, over 900 were built I believe! they began producing then in in 1952 but they didn't go into service until 1953, and they stopped producing them in 1962.

Gose you got a very good hall I would die to have some of those locos

Nice video

A suggestion for when you're cleaning up the commutators. Use T-Cut instead of a fibreglass pencil. Also with the Lima diesel models, it might be worth looking at a CD motor conversion.

The flanges may get hung up on your turnouts

Thats cool the green locomotive you pulled out near the beginning had blind driver wheels in the middle. Thats a detail alot og model companies dont do. A blind driver is a driver wheel that doesn't have the flange on the back side of the wheel. Blind drivers are actually milled with the center of the wheel that contacts the track in the center as the highest point. Think of the profile of an inflated bicycle tire. Theres a channel i watch with a guy who is a real world railroad singal engineer and also works a the Colorado RR museum. He does 101 video about all thing mechanical about trains. He did a video on blind drivers.

Hey Harrison. What interesting buys from England in HO scale. Wow 2 of those engines i was concerned. 🤣🤣I am sorry Harrison i didn't see the smoke come out of the High speed train i have a medium sized screen on my phone when i watch all my videos. I didn't expect that poor diesel smoke i could tell with your voice then the steam engine my goodness. 😳😵 The high speed train i am familiar with. LIMA came out with this in the 1980's & 1990's I saw it in the catalogs like you i wanted one for years please hope you csn fix it. Also Charlie at CHADWICKS MODEL RAILWAY had featured this in his collection. I was cheering when one of your steam engine took off on the layout then derailed .Maybe that should be in outtakes. 😄As for AIR FIX trains a rarity. I know this. I price so many of them where i work. They're mostly AIRPLANES , MILITARY TANKS, AIR PLANES BOATS & SHIPS, & model cars most kits come with some paints. AIR FIX is part of HORNBY they also make CORGI as well that steam engine & tender is a gem treasure it. Always my pleasure to watch looking forward to seeing future videos. 💡I had brainstorm : Why not in a series in parts we all can learn & enjoy that . Good purchases risky but i know you can rebuild & modify them even better. Harold A CN / BC RAIL/ CPRR fan as well.

I love the way all of them look, especially the steam locomotives. It’s nice to see a variety of different types of locos.

Your inter city 125 cam out in 1981 I remember it been my first ever train set The maroon loco is a class 52 western made by lima the blue none runner looks like a triang class 31 in br blue the wheels will ruin your points on modern oo gauge track .the little blue shell looks like a class 22 they was so bad most were withdrawn before steam actually finished and the larger blue shell looks like a class 42 nicked the warship can't really tell you much about your steam trains as I'm not really in to them but the little green body shell is a class 08 shunter and the blue and white train was known as the blue Pullman that is also triang hope this helps

An absolutely beautiful Southern railway S15 King Arthur class ‘Sir dinadan’ 3:29

It's been my experience with these British OO gauge locomotives that the flanges need to be filed down in order to prevent derailments on typical North American HO track.

With all the tenders you have gotten, you could do a remake of Six Lovely Tenders, a T&F horror story.

im with you on that, i love my blacksteam engines, but a little color is nice too sometime.

The green tank body shell is a Triang 3MT 2-6-2T

Some of the tenders are duplicates, as the 4 Railway companies merged in 1948. It was the tender that often had the change of company, from LMS to British Railways. The only other change was to the locomotive number. The Warship class was a Western Region, Diesel Hydraulic locomotive. The Western Region was before 1948 the GWR. All of the other regions went for Diesel Electric, but the Western Region preferred the hydraulic locomotives. Every depot had a Class 08 shunter, and you would stand on a main station platform, like Chester, or Crewe, and you would see at least one of them, either in a siding, or in use. There were many different Railway companies before the merger of 1925. One of these would have been the North British Railway. Others were the London and North West railway, the Great Junction Railway, London Dover and Chatham Railway, and many other smaller companies. These all merged to form the big 4, which were the:- The Great Western Railway. The Southern Railway. The London and North Eastern Railway, The London Midland and Scottish Railway. Apart from the Southern Railway, all of the big four were know by their initials. Hence the GWR, LNER, and the LMS.