JJ73 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Hiya 😀 Here is a Photo of the newer version which I got a few days ago... /media/tinymce_upload/7c61ac2814ebf28c7a6c5be2cd4347f6.JPG(Here is my ) & here is photo of the same set back in1938... /media/tinymce_upload/5224ea36e76c10b17bb1b6cea257680a.jpgAs you can see / tell, there is loads of differancesController, the track, no protective packaging to stop the Loco & Carriages from moving around the box...& my question is - On the lable on the old box - not only is there a drawing of an A4 but also a 0-6-2 Tank Loco with 3 Wagons - which would then apply that in this set - there would be 2 Trains but when you look in the box - there is only the A4 with 2 Carriages - Is that not a bit mis-leading???Also some folk may not know that that the word 'Dublo' meaning the Gauge size - i.e. as we know it as '00' - they may see the word 'Dublo' & think 'Double' Train & think 'where is the other Train???' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 P.S. I've done a review for the Hornby-Dublo Page but it is still Pending at the moment - here is the thing - in stead of writing  "Good old Fashion Hornby-Dublo with Modern Loco & Track!!!" I've just noticed I wrote...  "Goof old Fashion Hornby-Dublo with Modern Loco & Track!!!" Oppps - I hope some 1 can fix it for me please!!! (& no way is the Set Goof!!!)Here is the link for when the review goes live - when ever they get a chance to moderate it!!! https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/all-sets/analogue-train-sets/lner-sir-nigel-gresley-train-set-centenary-year-limited-edition-1938.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 The original Hornby Dublo packaging had two end blocks holding the Locomotive secure, with a card over the front (with "Remove this card to display locomotive" or similar printed on it.) The tender and coaches are in fact secured in cut outs in the light blue card 'deck'. The label on the box lid was common to both the A4 Passenger, and 0-6-2 Goods train sets, that is why both are illustrated. Trading Standards advertising rules were not the same when these sets were originally sold. Some train set box top illustrations bore no resemblance at all to the contents. The original Tri-ang Railways box top illustrations were of sections of complex layouts, with loads of trains, track, and scenic models (buildings, etc.) Which were not in the box! 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 The very early Tri-ang set boxes with the complex layout including high level track were issued before points were actually being sold. If you look carefully a train obscured where the points should have been! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 That's right... Tri-ang Railways had a display layout at the 1952? Toy Fair. Dummy points were made using parts from straight and curved tracks, but only one route actually worked... the points and elevated track in the photo were from this display layout... Also, the buildings are the balsa wood prototypes, there are the R.20 LMS coaches in BR Crimson and Cream livery, there are goods wagons in liveries not released (I think, I'm working from memory!), And the station nameboard / poster board was not released in that form. The elevated side walls and supports are not those released later, the sidewalls have the long transfers from Minic Double Deck buses, some of which were later used on the R.71 Footbridge. At least one of the Princess locos is Plunger pick up.I seem to remember that one had the rollers, but not sure now...and the details are painted on at least one loco? Memory exhausted! 😉 /media/tinymce_upload/ff65182bf366665777cf7212e63ab4f2.jpg The first Transcontinental, TC Series, set box lid picture was mainly 'artist's impression'. Only the boys and the controllers were actually there! All the set top box art is interesting. I especially like the realistic renditions, see the Freightmaster set, and the Blue Pullman, for examples... /media/tinymce_upload/ff2fe139bc90f35cff88a3f2d5190fbb.jpg /media/tinymce_upload/dc3ff48da4a7e35bafe35ffcb6dfb322.jpgThough looking like the real thing, the pictures are actually the models...they have the tension lock couplings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rana Temporia Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Set top (and catalogue) art was there to sell the models and is a subject in it's own right. Tri-ang and Tri-anG Hornby did some great set top box art. I especially like some of the clockwork sets with the green 7321 loco being one of my favourites going over a level crossing with steam escaping round the cylinders. The one for the clockwork diesel shunter on (I think) a dockside or siding complex is just as good.  I also liked the later Playcraft set Boxes. I have both the D6100 passenger and freight versions with the full colour box lid showing the two sets that it was used for with the only difference being the name of the set and the number. The passenger set was Euston and the goods set Stratford. I don't know if any D6100 locos ever worked at either location.  The Dublo box with the two Pacific's changing I think at Carlisle was also very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I would have been far more impressed, had you bought the original set. I have it, plus another 18 3 rail locos, coaches etc.. Thata what a train should sound like. There is nothing to beat the sound of metal track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 For anyone who is interested Great Eastern Models have a three rail Hornby turntable for sale at little money.https://www.facebook.com/447449541955263/posts/3378724178827770/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Merci beaucoup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Box art and catalogue art has been a source of great pleasure to me for as long as I can remember. My dad got my brother and I a copy of the first little Triang retail catalogue each, as soon as it appeared. Sadly neither of us kept them, I seem to recall I cut out some of the illustrations and stuck them in a now long vanished scrap book! I did manage to replace it in recent years, although somewhat more pricey than what my father paid for it originally. I still collect model railway catalogues especially when I see them cheap at Toy Fairs and exhibitions. Dad was good at feeding my imagination. One afternoon he turned up with a Bassett Lowke catalogue, which included scales up to 10 1/4 inch where you could order all the parts needed to build a Royal Scot. There was absolutely no way could affortd it on my pocket money. Every Christmas he got us a Gamages catalogue, he worked only a short walk from there. My first electric train came from Gamages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 Thank you every 1 for that 😀 @ Yelrow :- It is a bit like the original set - it still has that '1950's little boy' on it & then you have to close your eyes & imagine the rest!!! 😉 😆 @ Sarahagain :- I also like some of the 'box top illustrations' - I like your Blue Pullman box top illustration that you have shown above 😀 I also like my Airfix Diesel A1A-A1A box top illustration... /media/tinymce_upload/5dd22b8c31fc05f6280864288078d20c.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Interestingly, Airfix also pictures the model, complete with coupling. That makes an interesting comparison with the Freightmaster set illustration... The same class of locomotive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ73 Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 Oh yeah - hadn't really noticed that before about the coupling!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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