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Lima Train Set Italy HO Loco 3 Passenger Cars

Lima Train Set Italy HO Loco 3 Passenger Cars

13 $126.50 9h 43m
LOCOMOTIVE E444 FS TRENITALIA SCALE H0  LIMA

LOCOMOTIVE E444 FS TRENITALIA SCALE H0 LIMA

- $79.99 1d 59m
COACH PASSENGER FIRST CLASS FS TRENITALIASCALE H0  LIMA

COACH PASSENGER FIRST CLASS FS TRENITALIASCALE H0 LIMA

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$24.99
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1d 1h 10m
COACH PASSENGER SECOND CLASS FS TRENITALIASCALEH0  LIMA

COACH PASSENGER SECOND CLASS FS TRENITALIASCALEH0 LIMA

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1d 1h 12m
LOCOMOTIVE PENDOLINO FS EUROSTAR SCALE H0  LIMA

LOCOMOTIVE PENDOLINO FS EUROSTAR SCALE H0 LIMA

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$79.99
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1d 1h 13m
COACH PENDOLINO SECOND CLASS FS EUROSTAR SCALE H0  LIMA

COACH PENDOLINO SECOND CLASS FS EUROSTAR SCALE H0 LIMA

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1d 1h 15m
COACH PENDOLINO FIRST CLASS FS EUROSTAR SCALE H0  LIMA

COACH PENDOLINO FIRST CLASS FS EUROSTAR SCALE H0 LIMA

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1d 1h 16m
LAST COACH PENDOLINO FS EUROSTAR SCALE H0  LIMA

LAST COACH PENDOLINO FS EUROSTAR SCALE H0 LIMA

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1d 1h 17m
HO scale 44 foot Gondola EUROPEAN Lima Italy BCR Grey

HO scale 44 foot Gondola EUROPEAN Lima Italy BCR Grey

- $0.99 1d 15h 28m
HO scale gauge 40 Foot Cattle Car,  Durango K.C. 40394

HO scale gauge 40 Foot Cattle Car, Durango K.C. 40394

- $0.99 1d 15h 31m
HO scale gauge 40 Foot Cattle Car KATY MKT#47152

HO scale gauge 40 Foot Cattle Car KATY MKT#47152

- $0.99 1d 15h 36m
HO scale Lima Models South African MU Commuter set

HO scale Lima Models South African MU Commuter set

9 $144.50 1d 16h 19m
Lima HO 2-8-2 Canadian National CN Steam Engine &Tender

Lima HO 2-8-2 Canadian National CN Steam Engine &Tender

1 $24.95 2d 17h 33m
LIMA  EAST ANGLIAN MEAT VAN

LIMA EAST ANGLIAN MEAT VAN

- $4.95 2d 19h 40m
LIMA  FS ITALIA BOX VAN

LIMA FS ITALIA BOX VAN

- $2.99 2d 19h 40m
LIMA  SASOL TANK WAGON

LIMA SASOL TANK WAGON

- $3.99 2d 19h 40m
LIMA  TWIN CANISTER WAGON

LIMA TWIN CANISTER WAGON

- $4.95 2d 19h 41m
LIMA 10 TON COAL WAGON RALEIGH BURNER

LIMA 10 TON COAL WAGON RALEIGH BURNER

- $4.95 2d 19h 41m
LIMA 12 TON LUCAS BATTERIES VAN

LIMA 12 TON LUCAS BATTERIES VAN

- $4.95 2d 19h 41m
LIMA 12 TON PINXTON WAGON

LIMA 12 TON PINXTON WAGON

- $4.95 2d 19h 41m
LIMA 2 CONTAINER WAGON FREIGHTLINER

LIMA 2 CONTAINER WAGON FREIGHTLINER

- $4.95 2d 19h 41m
LIMA ACL 2 CONTAINER WAGON

LIMA ACL 2 CONTAINER WAGON

1 $4.95 2d 19h 41m
LIMA AGFA-GEVAERT COACH CAR

LIMA AGFA-GEVAERT COACH CAR

- $4.95 2d 19h 41m

Train news

  • TRAINS HISTORY

    Prehistory There have been models and toys of trains for as long as there have been real railways. Indeed some early models of locomotives were made first as sales promotional tools for the early railways, even if they later might have become playthings. During the Victorian period toy and model trains and locomotives fell into a number of categories there were the live steam engines, expensive and only for the wealthy, there were pull along trains in all shapes, sizes and materials, penny toys in lead and tin and latterly clockwork engines. The steam and clockwork engines might be intended to run on the floor, or a simple track assembled by the user, but there was no real sense of system about these trains. Most of these toys were made in Germany. Britain and France tended only to make the better class of steam engine. There was an indigenous US industry, with considerable use of cast iron rather than tinplate. The Real Beginning The defining event in toy train history was the launch by Marklin in 1891 of the first complete system of trains. While the first models were derived from earlier products, what Marklin introduced was a series of standard track gauges, ready to use track sections for those gauges, and a range of locomotives, rolling stock and accessories to match. Now you could have an initial train set, but continually add and expand till your miniature railroad empire was complete - which it never was.

     

    This was of course good for the toy manufacturer, indeed this is possibly the first example of the expanding range, with items at various price points Christmas, birthdays, parents and relations and pocket money sized, which is one of the basic features of most successful toys since.

     

    These first Marklin models were made in three gauges called 1, 2 and 3, logically enough. Painted and soldered tinplate was the main material, and clockwork the driving power. And they were crude. But the range was clearly a great success. So Marklin expanded and improved its range, after a few years adding a fourth, small gauge O. The range of accessories was greatly expanded. Other German toy makers introduced competitive products, most importantly Bing then probably Germanys, and hence the worlds, largest toy maker. Despite the odd divergence these makers generally adopted the same standards as to gauge as Marklin, while developing new production techniques, in particular the use of lithographed printed tinplate, allowing much cheaper and more colorful items, at the expense of some robustness.

     

    By the start of the 20th century other methods of propulsion were being applied too, in that live steam and electric powered models had taken to the toy train rails, though clockwork was still the prime mover. More importantly the first ranges of Marklin and Bing and others were growing and improving each year, and as with the rest of the German toy trade, was strongly export oriented, thus spreading toy trains world wide. The main markets were Britain, France and their empires and the US. Britain had no indigenous toy maker to compete with, nor really had France, but there was home based competition in America. Britain however had something else - model railways

     

    Model Railways

    The hobby of model railways can really be said to have been founded in the U.K. at the start of the Edwardian period. There were already active amateur model engineers, building live steam locomotives and with a keen interest in the real railways. One of the embryo suppliers to this group was a young man, W J Bassett Lowke. He saw the potential of using the German toy trains, particularly the track and mechanisms, with bodies rather more accurate as to prototype and selling not as a toy to children but rather to adult enthusiasts. And he used the services of another young man, Henry Greenly, as a designer of these models. Greenly, among other things, established a system of scales using the Marklin  gauges as the starting point. He also founded the first periodical devoted to model railways. And thus from the beginning the hobby of model railways was in part a toy, and in part the effort of amateur and professional model makers coexisting, sometimes comfortably and sometimes not.

    Bassett Lowke tended to use the services of Bing and Carrette for its own models, but of course once the idea of British outline models was established the German makers started to produce models for sale by other importers, for example Marklin for the Gamages store in London.