Hogwarts Express

I’d guess they dropped the G gauge packing because it was causing confusion ;) Mind you Chris said his example did run on 45mm so if it was why on earth retool it?!? Surely with Lionel being a model train maker they think of the extra sales in G or maybe it’s actually made by someone else again for them? Who knows it’s a right hotchpotch of scales and caricature!
 
voodoopenguin said:
To add to the fun it seems that Lionel used to make a G scale version but the set number and set box was different to the 50mm gauge. The set number was 7-11080 and the box looks like this.

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Paul
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Ah that is what I thought I may be getting! But till it arrives this is all conjecture.
 
I do hope Hornby have not bought a 'pig in a poke' of the approximately 50mm gauge trains!? - Will not do their reputation any good, at all.. :(
 
OK so delving beyond Fred's link above I found the page that talks about the later Lionel offerings that run on 2" or 50mm track. It also details how to convert them to run on 45mm track.

Hogwarts "Ready to Play" Conversion to 45mm

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chris m01 said:
I had a Lionel Castle. I didn't check the gauge of the track but the loco and coaches do run on G track. They will go through both Peco and LGB points.

For me that's where the good news ends. The coaches are only fit for the bin and I can't see that anything can be done with them. I think they are the O gauge coaches on bigger bogies. The loco has many serious failings which make it unusable in a garden railway. The radio control for the loco has a range of about 15ft so the only way it will go round the garden is if you walk round with it. It has a light on the front and the sounds include an American bell. I thought I might convert the loco into a GW 2-6-0 but it was a pretty disappointing loco so in the end I just sold the whole set on. The RC may have improved on the Hornby version but somehow I doubt it.

To be fair it is British outline(ish) and it did actually run.


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Eye Bleach!!! Eye Bleach!!!!!!!! o_O
 
Lots of condemnation, but have mercy on those of us who hold to the old religion - Gauge 2 (7/16ths of an inch to the foot on 2 inch gauge rails). This is the first ready to run loco we have been offered for approximately 100 years! O.K. the scale is all wrong but a 2 inch gauge chassis and some bogies - it's almost the Second Coming!
 
Having got one of these sets but at less than half the price that Hornby are advertising them at I have to say I am pleased with my purchase but then as I have often said I am very much at the toy end of the model railway hobby. I am of course limited at the moment to the supplied plastic track however I have a possible plan if I don't want to go the regauging route. Many years ago I bought a job lot of used Peco O gauge that had been fixed to small wooden battens and had stud contact by little bolts added. It was one of those jobs to get round to of removing the studs and prising the wooden battens off the sleepers. I've never built track but maybe I could slice this track lengthways and fix it the appropriate distance apart. I am sure I am capable of doing this for straights and if determined and with the right gauge measure I might manage some curves. I will obviously check that the flange depth works on this finer scale rail but feel free to get back to me in ten years time and ask about any progress.

Paul
 
Will be interesting to see how you get on.. But I fear the Hogwarts flanges will be way-too-deep for O gauge track? :(
 
voodoopenguin said:
I am sure I am capable of doing this for straights and if determined and with the right gauge measure I might manage some curves.
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We are all sure you can manage that. When I was building my own track I made a simple, cheap track gauge using a ruler with a couple of notches made with a small saw. [The ruler below is actually part of what we call a "yard-stick" over in the US, as it is 3 ft long.] Make several of them to hold the rail while you tie/nail/glue it down.

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voodoopenguin said:
I am sure I am capable of doing this for straights and if determined and with the right gauge measure I might manage some curves.
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We are all sure you can manage that. When I was building my own track I made a simple, cheap track gauge using a ruler with a couple of notches made with a small saw. [The ruler below is actually part of what we call a "yard-stick" over in the US, as it is 3 ft long.] Make several of them to hold the rail while you tie/nail/glue it down.

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OK, fell at the first hurdle. It bumps over the chairs on Peco O gauge track. While in the shed I looked around for any other possibilities. Could this be an answer?

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Hmmm, maybe not although I do have a lot of old Tri-ang Super 4 track and it didn't seem to bump over the chairs!

Paul
 
Well, TAC, according to some, invented in America:

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So based on that one could very well believe that it was not invented in the UK...

Greg
 
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