August Photo of the Month

August Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for August is Sunny South Sam from Steven Travers. Steven writes about this photo "As you can see, the photo is based on the iconic Southern Railways Poster - i’m taking an early holiday cos i know summer comes soonest in the south. Whilst very...
Milton Keynes Show Report

Milton Keynes Show Report

Summer Show report available now. Bob Leggett's report on the TCS Summer Show of 2017 – All Trains Great and Small - held at the Stantonbury Centre, Milton Keynes on Saturday 15th July - is now available here and from the Event Reports page.

July Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for July is Turntable from Rod Hannah Rod took this photo at the Beckenham Vintage Show in 2014 and it is an overview of the Bassett-Lowke layout of Mark Carne (and others) at the show, featuring the  turntable with some of the many delights of...

New Videos for June – from the garden and the shows

Summer seems to have brought out the camcorders! The latest issue of the Train Collector magazine (June 2017) has an article by Fred Van der Lubbe  on French toy train streamliners. As well as the article Fred has also provided a great set of videos mainly shot on his...

JUNE 2017 TRAIN COLLECTOR

Another great issue is on its way to members (if it has not already arrived). Our new Editor, Nicholas Oddy, seems to be really getting into his stride and a major theme of this issue is streamlined steam trains, or at least their following as toys. Nicholas is...
TCS at the Bassett-Lowke Exhibition

TCS at the Bassett-Lowke Exhibition

The TCS was kindly invited to the Bassett-Lowke Society’s recent 25th Anniversary Exhibition Rod Hannah looked after the TCS display and has provided this short report and the accompanying photos Rod writes "This was held on the weekend of 13/14 May at the STEAM...
June Photo of the Month

June Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for June is Le Rapide entering station from Fred van der Lubbe Fred describes the scene as follows "An 0 gauge CIWL express train made by LR (Le Rapide) in France around 1950 is entering a station some 10 Miles from Paris on its way to the Cote...
May Photo of the Month

May Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for May is Erie Canal from Dirk Hertel. This is the second of Dirk's photos to feature in this year's calendar and shows a Bing freight train (as made for the US market) running alongside the Erie Canal in upstate New York Here is the calendar...
Photo of the Year UPDATE

Photo of the Year UPDATE

TCS member Dirk Hetel has contacted us to say with an update to his winning "Photo of the Year" Dirk writes; "The TCS January 2017 Calendar Photo starred my more than 100 year old model of Samuel W. Johnson’s Midland Railway 4-2-2 class 115 “Spinners”, one of Bing’s...
Updated Tri-ang & Hornby Listings

Updated Tri-ang & Hornby Listings

Updates to John Entwistle's Listings now available TCS member John Entwistle has recently updated his comprehensive listings of Rovex, Tri-ang, Tri-ang Hornby and (Margate) Hornby steam locos " A Definitive Guide To Triang and Hornby Steam Locomotives 1955 – 2017" and...