Picture of the month March
End of February, beginning of March is the time when one of the largest tabletrain meetings in Gaggenau in Germany is taking place. The picture of the month March from Rainer Haug shows part of his H0 gauge show layout with H0 tinplate trains from the 1950's and...
Picture of the month February
Following the example of last year and maybe starting a tradition, February is the month where we present the winning photo of our photo competition. The Winner this year is Paul Williams with his picture Bing Table Railway Electric Tank Loco. Congratulations to Paul...
January Photo of the month
January 2019 Picture of the month January is from Dirk Hertel and shows the clockwork driven ,0 gauge, light shunting diesel class ‘Kö’ made by Metallwaren Galvanik Weimar, GDR in a winter...
TCS Spring Show: Change of Date
Short News, Short News, Short News We have discovered that Barry Potter has had to set the date for the Rugby Vintage show to the 16th of March 2019 the same date that that the TCS show had been set. As this show along with ours are two of the most popular shows...
December Issue out now
December issue has been posted to members. Special feature is the end of the Great War and special trains related to this (and other) wars. As usual a lot of other topics as well as the 2019 TCS Calender. The full content of the issue can be seen here Train Collector...
December Photo of the Month
Our Photo of the Month December is Waiting on Christmas Eve from Fred van der Lubbe."Waiting on the last train home on Christmas Eve (or more correctly: En attendant le dernier train à la maison à la veille de Noël) Showing an illuminated JEP station and a Le Rapide...
Photo Competition for TCS members – TCS Calender 2019 –
Please submit your photo untill 19th of December. We are launching our photo competition again, the winning 12 entries chosen by the committee will become the “Photo of the month” on this TCS website for the world to see and the overall winner will receive a free one...
Report and more than 70 pics of the TCS get together at Leicester
A wonderful Autumn day for yet another excellent show organised by Paul Draycott for the TCS and public with another superb Christmas lunch cooked and served by the ladies from the Methodist Church. As usual we were greeted by members ... To read the full report and...
November Photo of the Month
Our Photo of the Month November is Haloween Train from Dirk Hertel.Dirk is commenting: "A Bing Halloween train crossing a covered bridge somewhere in New England. This is Bing’s first version of a clockwork 4-4-0 for the North American market, about 1913"Here is the...Recent Posts
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