Hand full of Tri-ang Items Part One

Wonderful collection you have Oscar, at your disposal.Triang made excellent locomotives and other equipment in my opinion. .👍🏻

Nice items Oscar , can I say you certainly enthuse over your railway, and very knowledgeable thank you regards Fred

Good morning Oscar. Fantastic footage to start the day. For those of of us who grew up in the sixties, your channel is totally nostalgic.

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Morning Oscar, that's a great collection of bits and bobs. I can hear the excitement as you pick though you Treasures. In the coming weeks you'll have fun getting some of these items back to working order. I see part two has come up so I'm off to see that one, see you soon Eddy, xx

Good morning Oscar, it's Martin from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Just watched your very interesting video of railway items that was given to you by the gentleman. I think that when people give someone a box of railway items one always finds something that can be kept as spares. It doesn't matter if it's just a screw or maybe a wire, you never know when you may need one. And the Pullman coach looks a lot better after a good clean. All in all, a very informative and interesting video, thank you for letting us seeing it. And it's always a pleasure seeing your locomotives and rolling stock running around your excellent layout. Well it's time for my toasted tea cake and cup of tea. ( Yorkshire tea bags and Warburtons tea cakes) keep safe Oscar and have a good week ahead and ill be watching next time. 👍🚂☕

Very interesting stuff here. The Servicing Scheme book highlights how many model railway shops there once were, most of which are sadly no more.

R751 English Electric Type 3... BR TOps Class 37. My fave class of diesel locomotive, and my first model diesel locomotive that I got when i was young. I've said before that my first set was the GWR pick up goods set, next came the Flying Scotsman, with the firebox glow and the exhaust steam sound. I still have the 37, although it is not in the best condition. It was re-painted (badly) at a friend's. We had a go at using a airbrush! Only one of the cheap ones that used a can of compressed air, and they were never much good. I would love to have it fixed and re-painted properley!

I'm enjoying this Oscar. On to part two.

We all love an R751! Those base keeper plates can be fragile. Oh that Super 4 track. I remember buying some "converter tracks" so I could buy the new System 6 stuff but still use my older track. I've just serviced a very early Jinty, but the flanges are far too large to run on modern track. My Hymek was BER, but I did salvage what I could off it, including the brass buffers. I've also just managed to get a Princess Elizabeth running after the best part of 50 years in storage, by using a 2nd example as a donor. Once again, you have sparked some very happy memories for me.

Morning Oscar ,what an interesting collection of items in the box ,most modellers would like to go through such items .A true modeller such as yourself & viewers know the true worth of items damaged or not . 😊Suffolk .

A bit if a different video this morning Oscar showing a range of different items but a good video overall, some nice looking items that you showed in this video, the 37 in blue looked really nice, a few months ago I actually fixed mine up and got it running using a hymek armature as one of the 37 wasn’t available and those pullmans also looked really nice, keep up the great work Oscar.

Wow Oscar. Quite a marathon video this morning. Interesting none the less. Thanks for kicking off my Sunday again. Roy.

Oh my class 37 is the later one that has the extra pickups on the rear bogie!

Wow, huge layout! New subscriber 🙋‍♂️

interesting that triang went metric before the entry into the common market.

A Very Useful box of Swag, Lots to Tinker with there - I had 0 gauge clockwork Triang as a Youngster which I sold late 70’s, and I was intrigued to find the old version TT recently, (my Dad told me there’s nothing new), and inspired by the your videos in this Vintage Era, I’m thinking I may like to explore the TT Avenue some more. Great vid, Many thanks👍🏻

Hello Oscar, It's incredible that old plunger Princess still works well for its age. A testimony to the longevity of the Triang product. A really nice box of goodies you have there, how kind of your friend to pass them on to you. They certainly found a good home. While on the subject of Triang locomotives... the majority of my fleet of used locos run pretty well considering their age and what they probably went through before reaching me. However some start flagging and eventually come to a stop after a while, bearing in mind I service and clean mechanisms regularly. I wondered if you might be able to shed some light on to why this happens? Could it have something to do with the magnet, perhaps?... maybe needing a boost. Or is the brushes? Your insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Best wishes Brian

good vid

Hi Oscar, I'm not sure why, but part 2 showed up before part 1on YouTube locally? It makes a bit more sense when viewed in the right order? I really enjoyed seeing your restoration work.. Great to see the care going into cleaning the commutator. No 'wire wheels' in a power tool as I've seen others do. (It would be so easy to slip, doing that, and rip the armature winding right out of it's solder? So rough...). Your maintenance is "top notch"? I read once, that the upright pin at the back of some loco bogies, was to assist with stability while pulling around curves, as well as simply being a "locator pin"? I quite enjoyed watching, as maintaining the fleet is as important as running them? I have found that 'old' oil or grease on the axles can contribute to poor running over points? I used to often try cleaning wheels and pick-ups on the "insulated" side, (to be sure that both picked up power), but often with little success? When I finally realised that the locos would also falter with one of the 'fixed wheels' on the frog too, then it became evident that the axle must not be passing on power from the "other' wheel still in contact with the rail? I cleaned the axle, then, low and behold.. A smooth runner ! I still think that your bench is just like mine? Covered in Tri-ang bits? Cheers, from Rob in Tasmania. (Down under, 'Down under'). Quote: ("Everything is upside down, I must be in Australia" ) from "Gerry Anderson's" "Terrahawks" series years ago !