TCS Digital Archive

TCS Digital Archive

The Digital Archive is Now Available The TCS Digital Archive - a collection of images of models past and present that have been collected by TCS member Pat Hammond over many years - is now beginning to be made available on-line to all TCS members.  This will be a...
June Photo of the Month

June Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for June is AS cannot fail to impressfrom Bryan Pentland. Bryan explains this photo as "This was taken while I was exhibiting at the Winchester American and Foreign train show Oct 2016. I don't know who the impressed man was!" Here is the...
Our Members’ Area

Our Members’ Area

The members’ area of this website is now open – to members! What is there? At the moment you can view or download every copy of our Train Collector magazine, plus every copy of its predecessor, the TCS News. There will be more content to follow. How do I get there? To...
May Photo of the Month

May Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for May is GNR at the NRM or in full Great Northern scale and model locomotives at the National Railway Museum from Dirk Hertel. Dirk describes the scene as showing "two lithographed GNR clockwork locomotives made before WW1 by Carette, a small...
New Membership Secretary

New Membership Secretary

A new Membership Secretary and a new postal address The TCS are pleased to announce that Paul Chapman is now our Membership Secretary. Paul may be well known to you as a helper and exhibitor at many recent TCS shows, Lima O gauge springing to mind as one example. With...
2018 Leicester Spring Show and AGM Report

2018 Leicester Spring Show and AGM Report

2018 Spring Show and AGM report available now Bob Leggett's report on the TCS Spring Show and AGM held in Leicester on March 17th - is now available here and from the Event Reports page. And thanks to Malcolm Pugh there are some great videos there as...
April Photo of the Month

April Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for April is Rossignol display from Paul Williams. Paul explains that this photo "Is all composed from French O gauge from the 1950's. The train is clockwork, the centre station is JEP and all the rest is 'CR'....Charles Rossignol. The...
The End of the Train

The End of the Train

Or rather - the finishing touch? Traditionally freight trains have needed something at the end, for the guard or conductor, or whoever was in charge of the train. In N American parlance the Caboose, in the UK the Brake Van. Given the prevalence of goods rolling stock...
March 2018 TRAIN COLLECTOR

March 2018 TRAIN COLLECTOR

The March 2018 issue of the Train Collector is winging its way to members (if it has not already arrived). Another great issue, with plenty to interest all. In-depth articles on the origin of our gauges and scales, and the scale of signals are of particular note, but...
March Photo of the Month

March Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for March is Wagon-Lits train at the station from Fred van der Lubbe. Fred writes about this photo "At the French CR (Rossignol) station a train of the Compagnie Internationale Des Grands Express Europeens with CR dining and sleeping car is...