- 3 Rail Conversions - Some help when you want to try converting 2 rail to 3 rail
- Alan's Meccano Pages - This page features HD 3 rail layout
- American Dublo Site - This is a US Dublo Site but hasn't been updated for a very long time
- Andy Millers new blog. - 3 rail conversions of EMUs, Brighton Belle & more plus converting to DCC all on tin track 3 rail
- Britain's Great Little Railways - Starting point for a visit to a miniature railway
- British Rail wagon photographs by Paul Bartlett - Comprehensive photo colection of UK freight wagons
- Charles Cooper;s Railway Pages - Two 3 rail layouts, notes, advice and tips
- Chuffers .com - Selling Hornby Dublo and other makes of trains
- Classic Collections - New build new models of 3 rail trains - well worth a look if you want something special
- Cliff Maddock Toys - O and OO gauge for sale. Cliff has been around for years, very reliable, stalwart of the HRCA his stuff is as described. I have been pleased with my purchases from him
- Cooper Hornby Dublo replicas - New versions of HD type engines and coaches. Lovely but pricey. Well worth a browse
- Dave Angell Trains - Mostly selling Triang but often some Dublo
- Davids 3 rail website - Interesting pictures of 3 rail conversions
- Dennis Middleton - Dublo Daze - Dennis Middleton's 3 rail layout video
- Dennis Middleton - Fast Mail - A YouTube dieo of an HD 3 rail mail train
- Dennis Middleton - slow goods - A HD 3 rail 2-8-0 heads a goods train
- Disused railway stations - List, photographs and history of disused railway stations
- Dublo Auction - The very best in mint and boxed Hornby Dublo. Expensive but you would expect that. Too rich for my wallet.
- Dublo Parts and Rolling stock - A small selection of replacement parts and rolling stock for sale
- Dublo Surgeon - HD spares, repairs and tranfers
- Elaines Trains - Selling HD and other makes
- Frank Hornby and Friends - Hornby Dublo and lots more. Well worth a browse.
- Garry Hall Videos - A link to Garry's 3 rail videos
- Gaugemaster - ,Model railways, controllers and Marklin stockists
- HD videos on youtube - Just a starting point if you want to watch videos of 3 rail trains operating. Best to run your own but there are some ideas out there that might be worth copying.
- Heritage Railway Association - Starting point if you want to visit a heritage railway in the UK
- Herod Models - Usually has HD items for sale
- Historical Model Railway Society - Worth looking at but nothing special on HD
- History of OO gauge - Comprhensive history of OO gauge in 3 parts. This link takes you to part1
- Hornby dublo 2000 - Mentioned in David's Layout page, but website seems out of date
- Hornby Dublo Affairs - A blog on Dublo with a link to items for sale on ebay
- Hornby Dublo Book of Trains 1959 - lots of catalogues and instruction sheets. Very useful if you are not a member of HRCA
- Hornby Dublo Enthusiasts on Facebook
- Hornby Dublo on Facebook HRCA site - An HRCA Facebook site
- Hornby Railways Collectors Guide 1959 -1990 - This is for modern triang Hornby and Hornby Hobbies i.e. 2 rail modern railways. Excellent reference site with pictures of every model made during this period
- HRCA - If you are into Hornby Dublo you should join. Excellent magazine in full colour with 10 issues a year and a forum on their website which you can join but only if you are a member.
- JW Models - Lots of HD 3 rail for sale prices look very realistic
- Keith Pilkington's Great Dublo Blog from Australia - Fantastic layouts, rare rolling stock and rare buildings - must read blog
- Lickey Incline - Brief histories of HD, Wrenn etc. Worth a browse for other items of interest
- Looks Like Hornby Dublo - A small range of repro HD items
- Mainline Model railways - Pictures of the models produced by Mainline Railways Systems of the late 70's and early 80's
- Mainly Trains - HD Spares with photos of each spare to make your choice much easier.
- Martin Randalls 3 rail layout - A classic 3 rail layout using only HD buildings and no scenery. How it really should be done if you are a purist but very slow to load
- Meccano Magazine - Nearly every Meccano M<agazine from 1916 to 1981. Available in pdf. A winter of nostalgic reading is available here
- Metcalfe Models - My preferred supplier of cardboard buildings for you to construct. Many on my layout and enjoyable to coinstruct
- Model Rail Forum - This forum has a collectors area
- Model Railway Clubs in the UK - General model railways but may be useful
- Model Railway Three Rail Systems - 3 rail pick ups and automation ideas
- Neomagnets - If your magnet is fading replace it with a Neo magnet. This is one source of supply.
- Norman Wisenden - HD 3 rail for sale plus other second hand models
- Paul and Dianes 3 rail layout - A HD 3 rail layout but I can't find the blog anymore
- Playcraft Trains - Built to HO rather than OO but well worth a look
- Rail Pictures.net - Pictures of railways, trains and infrastructure from around the world
- Railway Herald - weekly e mag with current and heritage news of British railways including railtours, now subscription based
- RMweb - A model rail forum with a huge number of members and very frequent postings. It now has a Vintage and Collectors section.
- Ronald Dodd - A link to all of Ron's Videos
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - 3 trail track - Rons videos show how to do most repairs and maintenance on Dublo
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - clean & lubricate
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - cleaning bodywork
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - Electrical test
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - fault finding
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - magnets
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - pickups and brushes
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - remagnetiser
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - Service- wheels
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - servicing HS and other motors
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - train controller comparisons
- Ronald Dodd's Maintenance videos - wheels. MOD
- Scalespeed Repairs - Repairs to HD, Wrenn and Triang motors
- SCARM - CAD software for building your HD 3 rail layout
- Sharpos World - Steam trains and many other photos. 16,000 photos so lots to view
- Swap Meets - List of monthly swap mets in the UK. Very comprehensive
- The Bianco Collection - I am surprised that this is still on the net. Lots of pictures of HD for reference purposes
- The Great Western Archive
- The LMS Society - History and information but not many pictures
- The LNER Encyclopedia
- The Products of Frank Hornby - One of which was Hornby Dublo but all his others are covered
- train collectors society - Any make, any gauge, any age is their motto. They also have a yahoo group well worth joining
- Train Collectors Society Group - This replaces their Yahoo Group. All Yahoo groups have been shutdown
- Triang Model railways
- Trix Train Collector - List of all Trix models, For sale section. Remember Trix 3 rail is not the same as HD and the course wheel versions will not run over HD points
- Trix Trains - Was the Trix Swap Shop now under new hosting
- Trix Twin Collectors Association
- UK Model railway Exhibitions - Comprehensive list of UK model railway exhibitions
- UK Swap meets and Toy Fairs - Comprehensive list of UK toy fairs
- Vectis Toy Auction
- Vintage British diecast vehicles - Excellent information and also a valuation guide
- Vintage Model Railways - An Australian website covering Dublo and other vintage trains
- Welcome to the Southern E-Group Web Site - Excellent gallery, lots of information, frequently updated
- Wrenn Railways - Pictures and info on Wrenn by the same author as the Triang website.
- Xtrkcad - CAD programme for HD 3 rail - Go to Layouts for help with setting up this programme
Hornby Dublo 3 rail layout
I’ve only gotten part the way through all these links and they are great.
If you think it suitable please add my website to your links page, adding this text “Overlays for Hornby no.1 open wagons, no.1 chassis and Hornby-Dublo 5 and 7 plank metal open wagons”
Thanks.
The link has been added.
Hi I have a number of Hornby-Dublo items I want to sell, where is the best place to do this. I would also like to find out about potential values before I start to sell on these items. Regards John
Valuation
Find a similar item that you want to sell on ebay, click add it to my watch list and you will then see how much it sells for. You can also use BIN (Buy It Now) prices for items to give an idea what the seller thinks its worth although they don’t always sell for this amount. There are also ebay fees and pay pal fees if you use them.
Go to Vectis auctions and look through their past auctions for similar items and see the price realised. Vectis tend to sell items at the top end of the market, make sure that the condition of your items matches that of the seller. The price shown on Vectis does not show the buyers and sellers premium so what you see is not what you get.
You can go the many dealers selling HD which are in the links to get their idea of what an item will sell for.
Selling
If you have the time, energy and patience you can use ebay but you have to be responsive, pack the items well, give good descriptions with suitable photos, use Pay Pal and run it as a proper business with excellent customer focus.
If you have some valuable items then an Auction house might be interested but fees can be high. If you have any contacts in the HRCA or are prepared to join, they have 2 or 3 auctions per year with reasonable fees but to get the best prices the items must be in very good condition as these people already have collections and are often looking to improve on an existing item.
Go to a dealer who will offer you around 50% of the retail value but will take it all off your hands, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Greetings… your HD layout is precious! I`m just busy also with HD creating a MÄRKLIN HORNBY project with only locos of 50th and 60th:
The OrientexpressPassengers carried by a Duchess of Montrose and a Sir Nigel Gresley to Dover on a separate british layout – Trainferry – then pulled by a BR01 through a continental landscape
Hi, Just to advise you that due to BT shutting down their servers our web address has changed to http://www.firstbangormrc.co.uk. The Hornby Dublo pictures are still available on this new site. Regards, Norman
Thank you for the information I have updated the link with this new address
Hi , i recently decided to have a go at painting some of my hornby dublo loco’s but paints that i have bought are not the right colour for dublo . they may be correct for LMS loco’s ie like the real ones but dublo dont seem to be the same ?
Also i am looking for the best supplier of transfers that are as near as possible to the original dublo
Any help you can give will be greatly received
All the best Dave
Hi, Just been having an arguement with a gent about h/d making a :spitfire :
battle of britian model , I say no way he declares yes . Who is right please . Thanks Oddy
Oddy,
You both are, which makes the argument easier. Hornby Dublo was made by Meccano and so were Dinky Toys and it was Dinky Toys that made the Spitfire see here http://mrmercury.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=3990548. So HD didn’t but Meccano did.
the 1959 hornby book of trains link has changed.
the site bigger and now at
http://gpoclocksystems.byethost22.com/dublo/
Thanks
Try this;
for Dublo Surgeon Link
http://www.dublopartsdecals.co.uk/spares_page_01.html
it’s just the welcome page that has been lost.
Many thanks. Link reactivated. Dublo Surgeon is a very well respected supplier and I am glad that there is a link to his site.
Hi, If you think it would be of help to any of your followers pehaps you would add our website to your links – we are not specifically or only an HD site but always have a number of items for sale at reasonable prices and offer a search and find service to interested parties. Thanks
Web site added. Always happy to add people who are into Horny Dublo
Please could you add this new Facebook group to your list of links please?
Hornby Dublo Enthusiasts
A group for all enthusiasts of the Hornby Dublo OO gauge tabletop railways as produced by Meccano Ltd, Liverpool, from 1938-1964. A place to share pictures, discussion, buy/sell/swap, get technical advice and generally indulge in all things Dublo!
3-rail & 2-rail enthusiasts welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hornbydubloenthusiasts
A facebook page for Hornby Dublo. Well it might be interesting so I have added the link
I have just stumbled across your website in my quest for further information on Hornby Dublo and tips to building a layout and eventually running my collection, currently stored in boxes and cupboards throughout the house. Surprisingly, there is quite a fair amount of HD here in Australia although I havnt found a St Paddy yet!
Great to find so much helpful advice on one site and thanks to you and all your contributors.
John Cotgreave.
Hi,
If you get a chance could you take a look at my website and see if you feel we are worthy of a link.
Regards
Chris
Good Morning
I have been following this Blog for some years now and find that your dedication to the hobby quite extraordinary, well done. We are a small band of volunteers here in Brisbane, Australia and wonder if there is any chance that after viewing the site put a link up via this page. The site is very new and there are a number of area’s that will require more attention, maybe it will give some benefit to a hobbyist that is looking for a group here in Australia.
Kind Regards