Tony Stanford, Author at The Train Collectors Society

Steam Toys in Action at Leicester’s Abbey Pumping Station

by Tony Stanford | Feb 11, 2016

TCS Member Bob Fleming has sent us this report on the 26th Steam Toys in Action held at Leicester's Abbey Pumping Station Museum on Sunday February 7th The event was a major success with approximately 1500 visitors recorded, including 200 or so traders, exhibitors and...

THE MAGIC OF THE CLOCKWORK TRAIN

by Tony Stanford | Jan 12, 2016

MEMBER DIRK HERTEL wrote to the TCS with two delightful videos just before Christmas. Unfortunately the e-mail seems to have got lost at the North Pole or something and has only just arrived! But still very much worthwhile sharing I think you will agree. Dirk...

A NEW ADDRESS FOR THE TCS

by Tony Stanford | Jan 11, 2016

The Train Collectors Society has a new main address. As of this week it is: Train Collectors Society, PO Box 290, Winsford, CW7 9GS, UK The e-mail address memsec@traincollectors.co.uk remains the same. The reason for this change is that Paul Williams is now our...

DECEMBER 2015 TRAIN COLLECTOR

by Tony Stanford | Dec 6, 2015

THE DECEMBER TRAIN COLLECTOR IS OUT and has been sent to all members. Another great issue with articles, among others, on • CCW • Bing US trademarks • The ROVEX plunger Princess (with details of the two ‘pre-production’ examples that only came to light in 2013 – were...

NEWS ITEM FROM 1919?!

by Tony Stanford | Nov 24, 2015

A MYSTERY TRAIN? I was recently sent the above photo of an unknown toy train by the TCA Reference Library who were trying to identify the toy train in it. They thought it was of UK manufacture. Apparently it is a press photo taken in England in 1919 so presumably had...

TIN TRAIN ACCESSORIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRED VAN DER LUBBE

by Tony Stanford | Nov 13, 2015

TRAIN COLLECTOR SOCIETY MEMBER FRED VAN DER LUBBE from Holland has recently put together a fascinating assembly of photos and comment about Tin Train accessories in his collection. In his own words “My train collection consists mostly of rolling stock (locomotives,...

TRAIN COLLECTOR SOCIETY INSPIRES HORNBY BLOG

by Tony Stanford | Oct 12, 2015

IN THE LATEST OF SIMON KOHLER’S BLOGS "SIMON SAYS ..." THE TRAIN COLLECTORS SOCIETY AND IN PARTICULAR OUR EDITOR PAT HAMMOND GET A GREAT MENTION Simon Says blog is a regular feature of the Hornby website, in which Simon Kohler muses on how and why a variety of things...

A recent tinplate gauge 1 meeting in Bavaria

by Tony Stanford | Aug 24, 2015

Some photographs from member Karl Isele of a recent gathering in Bavaria S See http://www.maetrix.net/t1436f46-Bildbericht-von-einem-Spur-Tinplate-Treffen-in-Bayern.html for more details or visit http://kunden.semmet-online.de/Thul/tinplate/ for more about...