IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF MODEL RAILWAY GOES UNDER THE HAMMER

This week David Duggleby have the pleasure of hosting a very special single-owner collection of model railway for sale at auction this Friday 12 January. 

The astonishing train set, built up by a York railway enthusiast over a period of more than half a century, features 131 locomotives, dozens of vintage passenger carriages, 80 goods wagons, two breakdown cranes… and enough track to run a network!

The collection was the passion of York printer Ted Kenny and is being auctioned on behalf of his family three years after his passing. Ted was just a schoolboy when he got his first train set, a Hornby Dublo, which was the leading 00 gauge system in the period 1938-1964, and Dublo would remain his great passion.

The magnificent layout that he eventually built at his home – large enough to fill an entire room – was three-rail Hornby Dublo, and Dublo makes up 53 of the locomotives going under the hammer this week. These include a pre-war model of the Class A4 Pacific Sir Nigel Gresley, a really early model that’s actually almost as old as the real locomotive, as well as rarities such as the Deltic Diesel Co-Co ‘St. Paddy’ or a Class AL-1

^{From left to right: Lot 3068 Hornby Dublo - 3-rail EDL1 (pre-war) Class A4 4-6-2 LNER blue locomotive "Sir Nigel Gresley", Lot 3066 Hornby Dublo - 3-rail 3234 Deltic Type Diesel Co-Co locomotive 'St. Paddy', Lot 3079  Hornby Dublo - 2-rail Class AL-1 Electric pantograph locomotive}

Ted’s interest also extended to two-rail 00 gauge and the larger scale 0 gauge model railway system and he hunted down many collectible locomotives – even though he never had layouts on which to run them. These include 38 Wrenn locos, 28 Hornby locos and a dozen 0 gauge locomotives that have simply been on display in Ted’s home since he acquired them.

Two of the finest lots in the sale are a pair of large 0 gauge locomotives made by Ace Trains of London – ‘Westminster’, a Schools Class Southern Railway locomotive in wartime black and a Stanier tank locomotive in late period BR passenger green. 

^{(Left) Lot 3000 Ace Trains '0' gauge - E/10 Schools Class 4-4-0 locomotive 'Westminster' (Right) Lot 3001 Ace Trains '0' gauge - limited edition E8 Stanier 2-6-4 tank locomotive}

More than half the locomotives have not been run in decades and in some cases ever – with many of them in their original boxes making them even more desirable to collectors. Take a look at the catalogue to see the full collection available to bid on and don’t miss the sale this Friday at 11am.