Love the colour light signals. They just add so much interest and play value and you have reminded me of how good they are. The yard lights always looked wonderful on your Super 4 layout and it will be good to see them make a re-appearance. You have so many nice models stored away, I'm not surprised you lose track of them. I forget about some of the things I have and I only have a tiny fraction of your collection. It's always fun to find them again though. 😊
Hi Pauline, glad you like the look of those signals. I've got a few more in now since making that video, I had best intentions to get some lamps on the railway whilst I had the relevant tools out, but still on the list.. Take care. Oscar
Those signals seemed to have such a magical effect! My memory of those tiny green and red lights was brought vividly back to the fore by your wonderful video. Thank you Oscar.
Hi Oscar, The signals look great, functioning with the points.. It adds an extra level to a railway... The relays connected to the solenoid wiring are a great idea... We use similar ones on our layout to operate signals and also route power to the track as well. I really like Terence Cuneo's efforts in the catalogue and First 10 years book, but I could never bring myself to "weather" any of my own locos? I like them looking "shiny"' and "new"! Great video as usual... It's funny to read comments about "starting the day" with your videos? The time difference here in Tasmania, make them a late afternoon arrival, just before the Evening meal... I always look out for them each Sunday, and enjoy the time spent on memories from my distant past as well as comparing my grandson's present day collection? He adores the old Tri-ang range of locos and rolling stock, and often watches your videos with me ..
Good morning Rob I played around with weathering some of my locomotives, rolling stock and card buildings as a teenager. It didn't go well and I remember being very disappointed by the results. I obviously didn't have the skills or aptitude for it at the time, however since coming back to playing with Trains in later life, I've stayed away from weathering, like yourself I quite enjoy the items shiny and as new as 40,50 or 60-year-old toys can look. All the best. Oscar
Thank you Oscar for another wonderful video. Love the flip through that vintage Tri-ang catalogue. I like you showing your plan to put colour light signals on your layout & how you explained everything. Also learned something new, about the short lived Super 4 point activated switch attachment to activate colour light signal changes. Enjoyed your running session, great to see the vintage Tri-ang / Hornby & 3 rail Hornby Dublo trains storming about your fantastic layout. Great ending to your video, made me smile & drool to see you open up & go through that cardboard carton of lovely red & yellow Tri-ang & Tri-ang / Hornby boxes, digging them out & commenting on them. Amazing treasures! Cool that some boxes still have the " old money " prices on them, like 7/3. Best regards from British Columbia, Canada.
That's very interesting Oscar - on my Model Railway - I've also got a 'Hornby Railways' (with a similar 'R' No.) R406 Colour Light Signal like what you have shown @ 27:58. Also I do enjoy when you show your old (Tri-ang) Catalogues!!! @ 39:39 I don't mind looking at the boxes Oscar (I think I've said this before...) The boxes are a part of the Model Railway as well - I always keep my boxes!!! @ 40:14 I've got a R6839A BR (Ex SR) Cattle Wagon No. 53908. @ 44:53 I've got 2 Airfix Models (A Water Tower & A Signal Gantry) both have that very same leaflet in it!!! 😉🙂🚂🚂🚂
Good morning Jimyjames great to hear you enjoyed look the over that and that you have some of the items especially nice to hear you have those Airfix models, great pictures on the packaging. All the best. Oscar
Thank you Oscar for another wonderful trip back in time especially the growl of the R152 shunter which takes me straight back to my first train set. For Christmas I was given the R152, my brother got a dock shunter and later on we added a Princess, a Hiawatha plus some TC wagons from the local second hand shop, very happy memories.
Good morning Simon, Sounds like your brother and yourself had some great items from the rang as children to play with. Thanks for taking the time watch and comment it's very much appreciated. Oscar
Hi Oscar, Beautiful signals and adding another dimension to the layout, great to see them linked up to the points. The eighth edition catalogue is definitely a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Wonderful rummage through your Aladdin’s Cave of boxes brimming with treasure 👏👏 it always inspires me to dig something out that has been hibernating. The reality is ticking other boxes 😀 Gordon
Good morning Gordon great to hear you enjoyed that look through the various items. It's always amazing what you find, however I put two hopper wagons away when I got them sometime ago and I still can't find where them. All the best. Oscar
The usual great start to Sunday Oscar. Fascinated by the complexity of wiring up the signals to the points. I’m amazed that you have such an Aladdin’s cave of boxed items, but then I’ve been following you for long enough now to know better. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Morning Roy, I'm sure there are far better ways of wiring up a railway than this but this all makes sense to me and it works! however, there has been a lot of trial and error along the way with lots of fun. All the best. Oscar
I remember those airfix complaint leaflet. I used them to get more aircraft for the aircraft carrier kits and landing craft for the HMS Fearless model kit!
Hello David. As the recipient of those kits from Oscar I can tell you that the one Oscar found in the video came from the cattle car, catalogue No. 02659-2. They were great kits in the 1960's and remain so to this day. All the best. David.
Good Sunday morning and thank you fort the video. A very pleasant start to Sunday with coffee and the catalogue memories with imaginary layout. Drawn out and than the reality of the cost plus room size. A number of years later but in N Gauge. I do enjoy your videos on a Sunday, thanks again.
Good morning Oscar. Another marvellous video evoking memories of the model railway hobby in the 1960s. As a young child, I sometimes struggled with the connection between the Cuneo catalogue covers and the models. Each year the catalogue was religiously purchased, mainly on account of the daughter of Terence Cuneo being at school with Mum. Frustratingly the models were not so easily obtained and required doing jobs and saving up the money.
Good morning great to hear you enjoyed the video. I think in choosing some of Cuneo works over the years as well as some commissions brought a lot of weight to the catalogues not only for his previous and continued work with the railways, but he was in high demand from industry and society at the time not just here in the UK, but globally, bing prolific across a wide range of subjects throughout his career. Thanks again for looking in. Oscar
Morning Oscar ,what an interesting video this week .,layout looks really good with working lights on your signals .Lights on a lay out does add an extra dimension . Always enjoy you looking through the catalogues . Keep up the good work .😊 Suffolk .
An excellent video here Oscar, while I don’t have proper layout setup yet one thing I would really like to do when I can is add some working signal to it, great overall running session, keep up the great work.
Morning David, thanks for looking in the signals definitely interest to the railway I found it quite enjoyable and rewarding hooking them up, I have a few of the Hornby Dublo electrically operated semaphore signals which I'd like to introduce to the railway, but they need a little renovation first. Oscar
The cool white LED's you've used in the yard lights would be a similar colour to the Mercury Vapour lamps that use to be used a lot. Though I think a lot of yards likely used the more orange coloured Sodium Vapour lamps as well. Now I am curious and I might do some research as to what lamps were used in various periods :)
Hi thanks for the info. I quite like the contrast between the two colours of lighting and slightly cooler. Be interesting to find out, I wonder if very early on gaslighting was used. Take care. Oscar
I had a couple of the later colour light signals. What a shame they replaced the earlier ones which are much finer and better looking. A fun video with lots of variety 👍
Good morning Oscar it's Martin from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire again. Just watched your excellent video about your electric lights signalling. You're doing a great job with your signalling and they look great 👍. And it's great to look at the old catalogues, the illustrations look great. Great to see your trains passing your signals, they look great. Well thank you again Oscar for a great video and it's time to have my cup of tea and a toasted tea cake. Have a good week ahead and keep safe Oscar. Will see you next Sunday. 👍🚂
Good morning Martin, glad you enjoyed the video seeing the electric lights singles going in, I think they'll be a lot of fun. Just about to have some breakfast myself. Take care. Oscar
Another great video Oscar. I "spotted" Oliver Cromwell on one of my many days at Liverpool St station in the late 50s... happy days... Love the colour light signals... I wonder what led specs and resistor values etc that you used to convert them...
Hi Oscar - Thanks for Sharing your Passion with us and Keeping these Vintage Items Relevant - The Classic Layouts at Exhibitions seem to have more interest since being educated by your content - I like Hornby and Lima Items from 70/80’s and had a Nice Deal and some great Banter with Dave Angell at Wombourne Railex yesterday, with a Superb Selection of Stock that was a Feast for the Eyes. Many thanks O.P. 👍🏻
Good morning great to hear you enjoyed the video. Sounds like you had a terrific day out at Wombourne Railex. Dave always seems to have some amazing items of stock. Thanks again for looking in. Oscar
Thanks Oscar, I can remember buying my first RT405 from a long gone model railway shop in Cheadle, I've always thought it was an excellent model, although it came in for some critisism from the model press at the time, like you I have converted mine to LED, they look great on a OO layout.
Hello Oscar. Thank you for another very interesting video. Those signals really add another dimension to the layout and it's operation. The Airfix slip is missing from the cattle wagon kit. lol. David.
Good morning David I think they're quite fun items that signals, I thought that slip must've come from those kits. Thanks again for taking the time to watch. Oscar
PS N Gauge still has the excitement when looking through the storage boxes and trains to run and what locos to pull the trains. Takes years off me apart from when ducking under the layout he he.
I enjoyed that Oscar. I was wondering if one of those double gantry lights would straddle the points on the elevated section. Can the lights turn around or are they fixed on the gantry? Thanks for another great start to Sunday.
Hi, it would be possible to turn the lamp heads around, but I'm not sure if they will straddle the points on the elevated track. Thanks for taking the time to look in. Oscar
At the risk of ruining the suspense, the model weathered to illustrate the article in the First Ten Years booklet was in fact a blue Nellie locomotive as illustrated in factory finish on the next page to the note on "Dirt". The weathered Nellie got two of the eight colour plates in the Ten Years booklet. Both factory condition and weathered version with a weathered WR brake van trailing. I had not heard it was other the Mr Cuneo who did the weathering. It looked quite a cut above any weathering seen in magazines of the time.
Hello Oscar, enjoyed the survey of your wagons very much. Is the track plan complete now? It would be nice to see the track diagram for your layout, along with some dimensions of your railway room, which seems to hold a massive volume of stock. Some of us need to store stuff in our lofts! regards and keep it coming, Paul
Good evening Paul great to hear you enjoyed that. I think the track is probably complete at this point, although I might need to exchange a few bits to improve running. The railway measures 3 m x 4.5 m and the operating well is 2.3 m x 1.2 m All these measurements are approximate. The baseboard is about 90 cm from the floor and the depth of the board from the inside of the well outwards is also 90 cm. Thanks for looking in. Oscar
Hi Oscar... always wondered about these signals.. Do they control the locomotive? I.E. if they are on red, do they cut off the power to the oncoming train and turn it on again once turned green? Triang catalogues are a delight to peruse. The company thought of everything. I am in the process of acquiring the majority of the earlier ones.... products made to last. Lovely video as usual.😊
Love the colour light signals. They just add so much interest and play value and you have reminded me of how good they are. The yard lights always looked wonderful on your Super 4 layout and it will be good to see them make a re-appearance. You have so many nice models stored away, I'm not surprised you lose track of them. I forget about some of the things I have and I only have a tiny fraction of your collection. It's always fun to find them again though. 😊
Hi Pauline, glad you like the look of those signals. I've got a few more in now since making that video, I had best intentions to get some lamps on the railway whilst I had the relevant tools out, but still on the list..
Take care.
Oscar
Those signals seemed to have such a magical effect! My memory of those tiny green and red lights was brought vividly back to the fore by your wonderful video. Thank you Oscar.
Hi Oscar, The signals look great, functioning with the points.. It adds an extra level to a railway... The relays connected to the solenoid wiring are a great idea... We use similar ones on our layout to operate signals and also route power to the track as well.
I really like Terence Cuneo's efforts in the catalogue and First 10 years book, but I could never bring myself to "weather" any of my own locos? I like them looking "shiny"' and "new"!
Great video as usual... It's funny to read comments about "starting the day" with your videos? The time difference here in Tasmania, make them a late afternoon arrival, just before the Evening meal... I always look out for them each Sunday, and enjoy the time spent on memories from my distant past as well as comparing my grandson's present day collection? He adores the old Tri-ang range of locos and rolling stock, and often watches your videos with me ..
Good morning Rob I played around with weathering some of my locomotives, rolling stock and card buildings as a teenager. It didn't go well and I remember being very disappointed by the results. I obviously didn't have the skills or aptitude for it at the time, however since coming back to playing with Trains in later life, I've stayed away from weathering, like yourself I quite enjoy the items shiny and as new as 40,50 or 60-year-old toys can look.
All the best.
Oscar
Thank you Oscar for another wonderful video. Love the flip through that vintage Tri-ang catalogue. I like you showing your plan to put colour light signals on your layout & how you explained everything. Also learned something new, about the short lived Super 4 point activated switch attachment to activate colour light signal changes. Enjoyed your running session, great to see the vintage Tri-ang / Hornby & 3 rail Hornby Dublo trains storming about your fantastic layout. Great ending to your video, made me smile & drool to see you open up & go through that cardboard carton of lovely red & yellow Tri-ang & Tri-ang / Hornby boxes, digging them out & commenting on them. Amazing treasures! Cool that some boxes still have the " old money " prices on them, like 7/3. Best regards from British Columbia, Canada.
Good morning Greg terrific to hear you enjoyed the look for those items.
Thanks again for taking the time to look in.
Oscar
Afternoon Oscar, it's great to see the triang ancillaries and how they work. Amazing how light signals were ahead of the time,
Hi, thanks for looking in great to hear you enjoyed looking at some of these bits and pieces.
Oscar
Hi Oscar, you can’t beat colour signals and the semaphore signals and realistic.. your layout is wonderful you must get lots of enjoyment.
That's very interesting Oscar - on my Model Railway - I've also got a 'Hornby Railways' (with a similar 'R' No.) R406 Colour Light Signal like what you have shown @ 27:58. Also I do enjoy when you show your old (Tri-ang) Catalogues!!! @ 39:39 I don't mind looking at the boxes Oscar (I think I've said this before...) The boxes are a part of the Model Railway as well - I always keep my boxes!!! @ 40:14 I've got a R6839A BR (Ex SR) Cattle Wagon No. 53908. @ 44:53 I've got 2 Airfix Models (A Water Tower & A Signal Gantry) both have that very same leaflet in it!!! 😉🙂🚂🚂🚂
Good morning Jimyjames great to hear you enjoyed look the over that and that you have some of the items especially nice to hear you have those Airfix models, great pictures on the packaging.
All the best.
Oscar
Thank you Oscar for another wonderful trip back in time especially the growl of the R152 shunter which takes me straight back to my first train set. For Christmas I was given the R152, my brother got a dock shunter and later on we added a Princess, a Hiawatha plus some TC wagons from the local second hand shop, very happy memories.
Good morning Simon, Sounds like your brother and yourself had some great items from the rang as children to play with. Thanks for taking the time watch and comment it's very much appreciated.
Oscar
Hi Oscar,
Beautiful signals and adding another dimension to the layout, great to see them linked up to the points. The eighth edition catalogue is definitely a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
Wonderful rummage through your Aladdin’s Cave of boxes brimming with treasure 👏👏 it always inspires me to dig something out that has been hibernating. The reality is ticking other boxes 😀
Gordon
Good morning Gordon great to hear you enjoyed that look through the various items. It's always amazing what you find, however I put two hopper wagons away when I got them sometime ago and I still can't find where them.
All the best.
Oscar
The usual great start to Sunday Oscar. Fascinated by the complexity of wiring up the signals to the points. I’m amazed that you have such an Aladdin’s cave of boxed items, but then I’ve been following you for long enough now to know better. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Morning Roy, I'm sure there are far better ways of wiring up a railway than this but this all makes sense to me and it works! however, there has been a lot of trial and error along the way with lots of fun.
All the best.
Oscar
I remember those airfix complaint leaflet. I used them to get more aircraft for the aircraft carrier kits and landing craft for the HMS Fearless model kit!
Thanks again David for looking in, great to hear that those little slips did their job.
Take care.
Oscar
Hello David. As the recipient of those kits from Oscar I can tell you that the one Oscar found in the video came from the cattle car, catalogue No. 02659-2. They were great kits in the 1960's and remain so to this day. All the best. David.
Good Sunday morning and thank you fort the video. A very pleasant start to Sunday with coffee and the catalogue memories with imaginary layout. Drawn out and than the reality of the cost plus room size. A number of years later but in N Gauge. I do enjoy your videos on a Sunday, thanks again.
Good morning great to hear you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for looking in.
Oscar
Good morning Oscar. Another marvellous video evoking memories of the model railway hobby in the 1960s.
As a young child, I sometimes struggled with the connection between the Cuneo catalogue covers and the models.
Each year the catalogue was religiously purchased, mainly on account of the daughter of Terence Cuneo being at school with Mum.
Frustratingly the models were not so easily obtained and required doing jobs and saving up the money.
Good morning great to hear you enjoyed the video. I think in choosing some of Cuneo works over the years as well as some commissions brought a lot of weight to the catalogues not only for his previous and continued work with the railways, but he was in high demand from industry and society at the time not just here in the UK, but globally, bing prolific across a wide range of subjects throughout his career.
Thanks again for looking in.
Oscar
Morning Oscar ,what an interesting video this week .,layout looks really good with working lights on your signals .Lights on a lay out does add an extra dimension . Always enjoy you looking through the catalogues . Keep up the good work .😊 Suffolk .
Thanks, Stephen. Glad you enjoyed the look for the catalogue and the bits and pieces.
Take care.
Oscar
An excellent video here Oscar, while I don’t have proper layout setup yet one thing I would really like to do when I can is add some working signal to it, great overall running session, keep up the great work.
Morning David, thanks for looking in the signals definitely interest to the railway I found it quite enjoyable and rewarding hooking them up, I have a few of the Hornby Dublo electrically operated semaphore signals which I'd like to introduce to the railway, but they need a little renovation first.
Oscar
The older colour light signals that you are using seem to be a much better scale than the later ones that Hornby made (still make).
The cool white LED's you've used in the yard lights would be a similar colour to the Mercury Vapour lamps that use to be used a lot. Though I think a lot of yards likely used the more orange coloured Sodium Vapour lamps as well. Now I am curious and I might do some research as to what lamps were used in various periods :)
Hi thanks for the info. I quite like the contrast between the two colours of lighting and slightly cooler. Be interesting to find out, I wonder if very early on gaslighting was used.
Take care.
Oscar
I had a couple of the later colour light signals. What a shame they replaced the earlier ones which are much finer and better looking. A fun video with lots of variety 👍
Good morning Oscar it's Martin from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire again. Just watched your excellent video about your electric lights signalling. You're doing a great job with your signalling and they look great 👍. And it's great to look at the old catalogues, the illustrations look great. Great to see your trains passing your signals, they look great. Well thank you again Oscar for a great video and it's time to have my cup of tea and a toasted tea cake. Have a good week ahead and keep safe Oscar. Will see you next Sunday. 👍🚂
Good morning Martin, glad you enjoyed the video seeing the electric lights singles going in, I think they'll be a lot of fun. Just about to have some breakfast myself.
Take care.
Oscar
Another great video Oscar. I "spotted" Oliver Cromwell on one of my many days at Liverpool St station in the late 50s... happy days... Love the colour light signals... I wonder what led specs and resistor values etc that you used to convert them...
Hi Oscar - Thanks for Sharing your Passion with us and Keeping these Vintage Items Relevant - The Classic Layouts at Exhibitions seem to have more interest since being educated by your content - I like Hornby and Lima Items from 70/80’s and had a Nice Deal and some great Banter with Dave Angell at Wombourne Railex yesterday, with a Superb Selection of Stock that was a Feast for the Eyes. Many thanks O.P. 👍🏻
Good morning great to hear you enjoyed the video. Sounds like you had a terrific day out at Wombourne Railex. Dave always seems to have some amazing items of stock.
Thanks again for looking in.
Oscar
Thanks Oscar, I can remember buying my first RT405 from a long gone model railway shop in Cheadle, I've always thought it was an excellent model, although it came in for some critisism from the model press at the time, like you I have converted mine to LED, they look great on a OO layout.
Morning Paul, great to hear you have a few converted to LED on your out.
Take care.
Oscar
Hello Oscar. Thank you for another very interesting video. Those signals really add another dimension to the layout and it's operation. The Airfix slip is missing from the cattle wagon kit. lol.
David.
Good morning David I think they're quite fun items that signals, I thought that slip must've come from those kits.
Thanks again for taking the time to watch.
Oscar
Thanks Oscar for another wonderful video Patrick Quinn IRL
Thanks Patrick.
great vid keep up the great vlogs thanks lee
Glad you enjoyed it.
Oscar
PS N Gauge still has the excitement when looking through the storage boxes and trains to run and what locos to pull the trains. Takes years off me apart from when ducking under the layout he he.
I enjoyed that Oscar. I was wondering if one of those double gantry lights would straddle the points on the elevated section. Can the lights turn around or are they fixed on the gantry? Thanks for another great start to Sunday.
Hi, it would be possible to turn the lamp heads around, but I'm not sure if they will straddle the points on the elevated track.
Thanks for taking the time to look in.
Oscar
At the risk of ruining the suspense, the model weathered to illustrate the article in the First Ten Years booklet was in fact a blue Nellie locomotive as illustrated in factory finish on the next page to the note on "Dirt".
The weathered Nellie got two of the eight colour plates in the Ten Years booklet. Both factory condition and weathered version with a weathered WR brake van trailing.
I had not heard it was other the Mr Cuneo who did the weathering. It looked quite a cut above any weathering seen in magazines of the time.
Hello Oscar, enjoyed the survey of your wagons very much. Is the track plan complete now? It would be nice to see the track diagram for your layout, along with some dimensions of your railway room, which seems to hold a massive volume of stock. Some of us need to store stuff in our lofts! regards and keep it coming, Paul
Good evening Paul great to hear you enjoyed that. I think the track is probably complete at this point, although I might need to exchange a few bits to improve running. The railway measures 3 m x 4.5 m and the operating well is 2.3 m x 1.2 m All these measurements are approximate. The baseboard is about 90 cm from the floor and the depth of the board from the inside of the well outwards is also 90 cm.
Thanks for looking in.
Oscar
In the Cuneo weathering article didn’t he recommend practicing on Airfix kits as well?
Hi Oscar... always wondered about these signals..
Do they control the locomotive?
I.E. if they are on red, do they cut off the power to the oncoming train and turn it on again once turned green?
Triang catalogues are a delight to peruse. The company thought of everything.
I am in the process of acquiring the majority of the earlier ones.... products made to last.
Lovely video as usual.😊
The morning Brian the lights change when the points change to indicate whether the points are set straight or curved.
Take care.
Oscar