Noel Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Anybody remember Hornby Dublo (2 rail)? Hornby Dublo taken out of storage - mixed freight wagons. The 'table top' model trains of the 60s. Diecast BR tank loco hauls mixed freight. Hornby Dublo diecast Barnstable hauling ex-GWR stock East meets west! Tin plate SR green coach In the background Bachmann GWR coaches - Dublo GRW coaches in foreground behind 'Barnstable' discast metal loco, had metal side panel with plastic roof, except for restaurant car which had metal roof also. For late 1950s early 1960s they were not bad models. I remember hauling 30 Triang Hornby coaches owned by other folk behind our 'Barnstable' loco in 1973!!! Edited July 21, 2017 by Noel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan564017 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Noel , looks great. Can I ask....with the track underlay, have you pinned the track to the base. Did it have any effect on point motors? From the picture you appear to have different levels, are they connected and if so what gradients did you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Noel , looks great. Can I ask....with the track underlay, have you pinned the track to the base. Did it have any effect on point motors? From the picture you appear to have different levels, are they connected and if so what gradients did you use. Hi Alan. Track is pinned with narrow track pins into partially preformed holes created with a fine pointed screw driver. The ballast is not compressed by the track or pins. I've only a handful of point motors wired up yet and those operate ok. All of the points have a half inch hole drilled under them in the baseboard. There are some points on the upper level that won't take motors directly underneath the base board due to track underneath, so they will be operated by push rods to remote motors (ie much like control cables in RC model aircraft). The layout has three levels with track laid on upper and mid level but not yet on lowest level. See track plan on Kingsbridge thread. The gradient change between level 1 and 2 is about 1/32 (3.1%). The height difference between levels is 3inches. Noel Edited December 7, 2014 by Noel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 This topic has been moved to a more relevant area of the forum as it hasn't got anything to do with Irish outline modelling. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 This topic has been moved to a more relevant area of the forum as it hasn't got anything to do with Irish outline modelling. Thank you. Whoops apologies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Whoops apologies. No problem Noel, just makes it easier to find things when people are researching in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuby Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Thanks for the memory Noel. Got my first Hornby for my 10th birthday in 1963 from Great Southern Models in Leeson St. Bought most of the stuff after from Hely's store in Dame St as they had the best selection of Hornby in Dublin. Remember paying something like £2 for the SR 0-6-0T. Unfortunatly my mother got very ill and had to store the whole thing. After she passed away 2 of my aunts cleaned the house and to this day I do not know what they did with the trains, have never forgiven them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRENNEIRE Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Before I became a serious WRENN collector I used to dabble with Hornby Dublo Hornby Dublo collapsed in 1964 . Their parent company, Meccano Ltd was taken over by Lines Brothers Lines at the time also owned Tri Ang and it was thought that having 2 competing railway product lines was not a viable option at the time So Tri Ang Hornby was formed. Wrenn was absorbed into the Lines family shortly afterwards Wrenn approached the Lines Board and asked if they could manufacture the Dublo models under the Wrenn name and permission was granted So began the Wrenn brand and indeed some of the first sets sold included some Hornby Dublo wagons and coaches but with the new Wrenn locos Wrenn loco with H/Dublo coaches Wrenn Loco with H/Dublo wagons and coaches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted December 26, 2014 Author Share Posted December 26, 2014 (edited) Before I became a serious WRENN collector I used to dabble with Hornby DubloHornby Dublo collapsed in 1964 . Their parent company, Meccano Ltd was taken over by Lines Brothers Lines at the time also owned Tri Ang and it was thought that having 2 competing railway product lines was not a viable option at the time So Tri Ang Hornby was formed. Wrenn was absorbed into the Lines family shortly afterwards Wrenn approached the Lines Board and asked if they could manufacture the Dublo models under the Wrenn name and permission was granted So began the Wrenn brand and indeed some of the first sets sold included some Hornby Dublo wagons and coaches but with the new Wrenn locos Wrenn loco with H/Dublo coaches Wrenn Loco with H/Dublo wagons and coaches Hi Dave, thanks for posting. That's a nice blast from the past. Wrenn was fabulous gear and the top of the pile back then. The fact that the locos were metal and seriously heavy gave them amazing traction, and they felt and looked like real steam engines. One of my great modelling regrets as a child was selling a Hornby-Dublo 'Cardiff Castle' loco to one of my school teachers in an effort to fund the purchase of more track work. The larger tender locos had the original 'ring field' motors on a long shaft with very good gearing for their day. The motors were nearly 3 inches long. They could start at scale speeds and also crawl at low speed, wheres Triang and early Hornby locos started with a jolt at scale speeds of 25mph. I think it was 'Evening Star' that was Triang-Hornby's first foray into tender drive locos with their plastic ring field motors. I remember Triang track work was o'rrible and oversized compared to the finer scale Hornby-Dublo track. Cheers. Noel PS: Did lines brothers sell off Wrenn or Triang? Edited December 26, 2014 by Noel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRENNEIRE Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 In 1972 Wrenn became an independent company again Tri Ang Rovex had gotten into financial trouble and all the various companies in their control were sold off Subsidising their overseas manufacturing was thought to be the main cause of their trouble Gallagher Brothers, the cigarette people, attempted a rescue bid but withdrew it when the full debt of the company was revealed Around this time Hornby as we know it today emerged after Rovex Ltd was sold and a new brand was required I remember reading that during the 2nd World War the factory was used to manufacture Sten Guns, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 The stories of Mainline, Airfix, Replica, Dapol, Hornby and Bachmann are even more involved than the one you have just related, bits begin either sold off or metamorphosing into a new form! Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRENNEIRE Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Noel Found these over the festive period while looking for something completely different These were the Hornby Dublo Breakdown cranes in another life A GWR crane, not sure if this existed or not but GWR was my favourite UK Livery A CIE version, very close to our own steam cranes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josefstadt Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 A lovely representation of the CIÉ crane Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeema Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 My brother had (and still has) the Wrenn 8F. It could never did haul anything... It always used to haul the long freights on our Loft railway.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Wow - Thanks Dave for the pics of those two fabulous cranes. GWR heaven. I can just feel the weight looking at the pics. You can sense a Mecanno influence. GWR is also my favourite livery. The weathered CIE crane looks superb and slightly different. Presume it was a repaint, good job too. HD & Wrenn built model machines rather than toys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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