Hornby Series

Liverpool, UK

Neverwas

A selection of 'Never Was' items created in the style of Hornby, using (mainly) standard Hornby parts. These are mainly one off creations, rather than regular production by Directory Series, Horton/Wessex, Tinplate Design Revivals and others.

Locomotives

Hornby Neverwas, Deutsche Reichsbahn 4-4-2 tender loco, based upon a Hornby No 3E Nord loco

Hornby Neverwas, magnificent Deutsche Reichsbahn 4-4-2 tender loco, based upon a Hornby No 3E Nord loco

Hornby Neverwas, No 501 tender loco converted to live steam operation

Hornby Neverwas, No 40 clockwork tank loco fitted with post war Marx electric motor

Multiple Units

Hornby Neverwas Brighton Belle Pullman set

Passenger Coaches

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled No 1 LMS Observation Coach, with clerestory roof and interior seating

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Saloon in Southern Railway First Class livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Saloon in Southern Railway Third Class livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Saloon in Southern Railway Restaurant Car livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Saloon in Southern Railway Brake Third livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Southern Railway Royal Mail livery
Sides appear to be printed paper or similar, possibly Mr Cat Graphics (Brian Wright)

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Southern Railway Full Brake livery
Sides appear to be printed paper or similar, possibly Mr Cat Graphics (Brian Wright)

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Saloon Riviera Blue Train livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Special Pullmans, Rheingold livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled No 2 Pullman, Swiss SBB FFS livery
Image credit Robert K

Goods and Freight Wagons

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled DSB Carlsberg Barrel Wagon, with wooden barrel

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled wooden bodied Brake Van, LNWR ivery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled wooden bodied Cattle Wagon, BR ivery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled 4 wheeled crane with match trucks, possibly tender bases

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled crane with match trucks, possibly tender bases

Hornby Neverwas Dinky 571 Coles Mobile Crane fitted with railway wheels, buffers and couplings

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled French Open Wagon, with mounted gun

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled wooden bodied 5 plank Open Wagon with coal load

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled No 50 Meccano Open Wagon with coal load

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Track Cleaning Wagon with coal load

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled wooden bodied Shunter's Truck

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, BP green livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Wakefield Castrol silver livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Fina red livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Mobil white livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Pratts yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Pratts blue livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Royal Daylight blue livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Regent blue livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Shell yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled repainted Tank Wagon, Texaco silver livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Baggage or Luggage Van, SR blue livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Baggage or Luggage Van, SR green livery
Who is, or was, V R Watts?

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Hornby Series livery, number 12 of 80, by whom?
Image credit Robert K

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Bisto yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Carr's Biscuits blue livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Castella Classic white livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Colman's yellow white livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Colman's yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Coraline yellow white livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Coraline yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Crawford's Biscuits maroon livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Cydrax grey livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Dinky Toys yellow and orange livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, NE Fish grey livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Fremlins Beer brown livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, NE Refrigerated white livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Fyffes red and yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Robertson's Golden Shred maroon livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Robertson's Golden Shred yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, NE Gunpowder red livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Hamlet Cigars cream livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Hannington's of Brighton green livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Heinz 57 Varieties yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, HRCA 25th Anniversary blue livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, HRCA 25th Anniversary blue and black livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, W and R Jacob purple livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Kemp Town Brewery brown livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Marsh's Sausages blue livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, GWR Mica B white livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Moorhouses brown livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Nuttall's yellow livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Palethorpes red livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, NE Perishable brown livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Persil white livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Player's Please blue livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Royal Mail red livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Salvage grey livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, Shell black livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled Van, SR green livery

Hornby Neverwas 4 wheeled chassis with wooden (scratch built?) bodies

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled NE and SR brake vans

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled Southern Railway 'Queen Mary' brake van

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled Container Wagon

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled crane wagon, using a Hornby No. 2 Trolley Wagon and what appears to be a Dinky Yard Crane on a Hornby Platform Crane base.

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled crane wagon, using a Hornby No. 2 Trolley Wagon and what appears to be a Dinky Yard Crane on a Hornby Platform Crane base

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled crane wagon, using what appears to be a Dinky 973 Yard Crane. The support wagon seems to be a Hornby No. 1 Flat Truck, with bolster grafted on from a Lumber Wagon.

Standard Hornby No. 2 crane, with a 'hook wagon' which seems to be a tender base topped by a cut down open wagon body.

A magnificent crane created by Richard Taylor, and exhibited at the HRCA Cotswold meeting, May 2013. The image was captured from a YouTube video. This really does seem to be a scaled up Hornby Dublo crane, even sporting the same running number (133). Richard's crane appears in this YouTube film

Another magnificent crane based upon the Hornby Dublo model, believed to have been built for Paul Gumbrell, of Green Valley Garden Railway fame

A third crane similar in style to the Hornby Dublo model

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled High Capacity Brick Wagon, bauxite

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled wooden bodied High Capacity Brick Wagon, bauxite

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled High Capacity Brick Wagon, grey

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled wooden bodied High Capacity Brick Wagon, grey

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled SR Hopper Wagon, brown

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled Van, Arnott's livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled Van, Blue Bird Toffee livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled Van, GWR livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled Van, Hovis livery

Hornby Neverwas 8 wheeled Van, Palethorpes livery

Buildings and Accessories

Hornby Neverwas cut down Signal Cabin, image credit Robert K

Hornby Neverwas double width Signal Cabin

Hornby Neverwas double width Signal Cabin, with one piece roof, possibly from Trent post war Island Platform

Hornby Neverwas wooden Platelayer's Hut. Who is, or was, Roberts Reproductions?

Hornby Neverwas, wooden Level Crossing, No 1 style, for clockwork track

Hornby Neverwas Footbridge, part Meccano and part Hotnby lattice bridge

The magnificent viaduct illustrated below was offered for sale via eBay, and described by the seller as something special that he made about 14 years ago (c2008), being two viaducts mounted on pillars. The pillars are painted tinplate, and just push up inside the viaducts, all mounted on a wooden base. Overall length is 20 3/4 inches, and 6 inches high.

Hornby Neverwas raised viaduct

Hornby Neverwas, cut down pre war No 1 signal to form a ground signal

Hornby Neverwas, pre war No 1 signal converted to No 2E Lamp Standard

Hornby Neverwas Controller, 8v 5 amp transformer with Hornby Resistance Controller in wooden case

Hand Made 3 Rail Electric Track

A selection of hand made electric track, created by adding a centre rail pickup to two rail clockwork track. It appears to be a form of metal banding attached to wooden strips. How was current passed from one to the next? Was it successful?

Hornby Series clockwork track, with added centre pickup

Three way point (switch, turnout) possibly based on French Hornby parts

Three way turnout, possibly using Hornby parts

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