The 1st Hornby loco you ever got

[2561Minoru]

What was the 1st one you ever got.

The 1st and only one i have is an LNER B12 4-6-0 with 2 coaches which i got for christmas around 2004/05 at the age of either 9 or 10

 

[Mvann]

A hymec my dad brought me in 1976. It in BR blue.

 

[Oswyntail]

Jinty 47606, BR black. 1956?

 

[Heinz57]

Mine was a Virgin HST as part of a train set. Back in christmas 2000 I think.

 

[GNER 373]

Got to be a Class 31 passed down from my uncle, but actually bought for me a Intercity 225 set around 1993-94 time! Still have it too although not in it's box!

 

[Greenback]

I got a class 37 in BR blue, Xmas 1976!

 

[chris89]

Was an Half cab Pannier Tank engine in GWR Green. And worked fine till my mum dropped it. that must have been about 16/18 years ago now

 

[Supersaint]

1976 a 2nd Hand Wrenn Class08 in Green then & Brand New Hornby Class 25 in BR Green Xmas 1978,still have both although both run rough.
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I got a class 37 in BR blue, Xmas 1976!

Always wanted one,remember seeing these in "Betties" on offer around 1980-81 for £12 each,all unboxed but new !

 

[Elec_Engr]

Class 09 Shunter

 

[mumrar]

Class 09 Shunter

My first OO models were at the same time. Somehow my parents had built a 6x4ft layout complete with scenery and point motors etc every night leading up to Christmas. They did it in their bedroom for months. On the day, me and my brother opened many trains, and the quote from me that made my Mom cry was 'silly Father Christmas, doesn't he know we don't have a trainset?'

The loco I remember most was a BR Blue Class 45 made by mainline.

Needless to say, when we went downstairs for breakfast the level of screaming and excitement was defeaning.

 

[Eng274]

My first OO models were at the same time. Somehow my parents had built a 6x4ft layout complete with scenery and point motors etc every night leading up to Christmas. They did it in their bedroom for months. On the day, me and my brother opened many trains, and the quote from me that made my Mom cry was 'silly Father Christmas, doesn't he know we don't have a trainset?'

The loco I remember most was a BR Blue Class 45 made by mainline.

Needless to say, when we went downstairs for breakfast the level of screaming and excitement was defeaning.

What a great story!

My first Hornby loco was on my 7th birthday, way back in 1993. It was a Intercity 225 train set, with the basic oval track. Loco was the simple un-named non-pantographed 91014, can't recall the coach or DVT numbers. It eventually died through overuse

To recapture my adoration for the class 91 i bought a used GNER 225 set a couple of years ago, which (true to real life) toiled for a while then died due to neglect by its previous owner. Will be taking it to a model shop to get it fixed at some point.

 

[Dreadnought]

My first one was 37130 and a rake of blue and grey coaches in the very early 80s.

I remember going out on spotting trips looking for it and finally seeing it on a freight in the North East when I was about 9 or 10. I know I also saw it as 37681 before it was unfortunately scrapped after losing a fight with of all things a 144 unit (which is still going to this day!).

 

[N Levers]

Intercity 125...

or was it 225...

can't remember

 

[321446]

Princess Elizabeth and a British Railways green Class 31. Circa 1970 something.

 

[GNER 373]

My first OO models were at the same time. Somehow my parents had built a 6x4ft layout complete with scenery and point motors etc every night leading up to Christmas. They did it in their bedroom for months. On the day, me and my brother opened many trains, and the quote from me that made my Mom cry was 'silly Father Christmas, doesn't he know we don't have a trainset?'

The loco I remember most was a BR Blue Class 45 made by mainline.

Needless to say, when we went downstairs for breakfast the level of screaming and excitement was defeaning.

That's Fantastic! What great parents! Gonna use that one with my kids! Well it's an excuse to build a layout without the wife bending my ear! It's for the kids I will protest!

 

[trains2064]

Smokey Joe.

 

[Elec_Engr]

That's Fantastic! What great parents! Gonna use that one with my kids! Well it's an excuse to build a layout without the wife bending my ear! It's for the kids I will protest!

That's the wonderful thing about having a son - You can legitimately buy presents that 'your son wants' / spend time bonding with your son as opposed to going shopping etc...

Works for me!

 

[O L Leigh]

I had the APT set which I supplemented with a green Cl47 with illuminated headcode and the name "Mammoth", some B&G Mk2's and a couple of wagons.

The APT was a Christmas present the same year it was launched (1984...?). I'd seen it on Blue Peter and asked if I could have it. We were really hard up so my Mum must have scrimped and saved in order to get it for me. I remember the set came with a 14V controller rather than the normal 12V controller. I expect that's why I burnt out two motors in quick succession. Mind you, even with the tilting body you couldn't go very fast with it before it derailed.

O L Leigh

 

[4SRKT]

Mine was a Dublo 3-rail Duchess of Atholl box set, which had been my father's and he gaveit to me when I was about 5. Too young really, as although it started a love affair with 3 rail that lasted many years and ended up in an extensive and lovingly cared for collection, the original set got totally trashed

 

[hairyhandedfool]

90012 in Virgin Trains livery sometime around 1999/2000

 

[matt]

An 0-4-0 LMS tank similar to Smokey Joe in the Midland Belle freight set.

 

[PaulLothian]

First 00 was an 2-rail Dublo 08 green shunter (not that they were using TOPS in 1960). Very unreliable and my father negotiated a reasonable trade-in for a BR (ex-LNER) N2.

Prior to that I had a Hornby 0-4-0 clockwork loco to go with a load of old Hornby 0-gauge track and battered wagons acquired from a jumble sale for 5/- (25 pence for our younger forum members, but worth more then than now!) I still have it and some track somewhere in a cupboard, and restoring it is on my list of things to do when I retire!

 

[Mickey Moggs]

You can't remember what you had 4 or 5 years ago when you were 9 or 10. Lord help you when you reach my age!

Mine was a very basic 0-4-0 steam shunter that bore no resemblance to anything that ever ran on rails. But it got me hooked!

 

[Soft Mick]

25247 for my birthday in 1977.

 

[CallySleeperKid]

I think mine may have been Smokey Joe, but I did get an old second hand Lima steam loco (number 1000 rings a bell), a freight set with 58001 and a model of 58050 'Toton Traction Depot'.

I got them all in a quick period of time and can't remember what came first?

 

[Foxhound]

A blue 37 and a TriangHornby Hymek, D7063. Erm, 1980ish. Then I inherited a load of track and wagons from my Godparents, which included a black dock authority diesel shunter with working headlight. (Sadly, now a distant memory as it expired in flames some years later). Managed to buy some coaches off a sixth former at school, and I was away. Got married to a woman who decided to sell all my stuff...

Got divorced.

Gone N gauge now....

 

[SouthEastern-465]

My first loco was a Caledonian 0-4-0ST in BR black, got that as part of a train set around 2001/2002.

 

[317666]

I believe it was a Green 0-4-0 Tank loco with red wheels, came in a trainset called 'Industrial Freight' or something like that, way back in the late '90s

 

[43021HST]

I got a class 37 in BR blue, Xmas 1976!

Now thats a great way to be introduced to the world of model railways. Mine was a BR black hornby 0-6-0st, I've still got it.

 

[loco-mania]

GWR Green Pannier Tank from my Dad in 1977. I now have well over 100 locos thanks mainly to eBay