Here is a searchable database of Hornby Dublo
items/serial numbers as published in the 1st, 2nd and 4th
editions of the 2-Rail catalogue.
The original listing (1st Edition) is courtesy of David Howes
who compiled the list, but he did not include prices.
I have added to the list from my
own copies of the 2nd and 4th editions, adding prices.
I have copied the descriptions as
accurately as possible, including capitals and punctuation. I have
also retained the old pre-decimal oddities of price
representation (in the 2nd edition) where 30/- represent £1/10/0.
Note that in the 4th edition, pence was denoted by the
idiosyncratic -/1 rather than 1d.
I have included some comments such
as indications were price was 'available later', and the singular
oddity where a picture of a junction Home signal clearly shows a
red 'home' on one arm and a yellow 'distant' on the other! 4th
edition variants are shown correctly. In one case a set of
brackets were not completed.
Mysteriously the 3-rail track
disappears from the 2nd edition, but reappears in the 4th.
2nd and 4th editions define OO gauge as 5/8 inch.
I believe that the absence of an
item from a later catalogue did not necessarily mean that it was
unobtainable.
The 1st Edition was printed in 1958.
The 2nd edition prices were all
shown in the 7 ¼ x 9 ½ catalogue.
Cover picture
The 4th edition prices were given
on a separate 9 ¾ x 5 ½ sheet, headed:
"REVISED PRICES (following the withdrawal of Purchase Tax Surcharge 10th
April 1962)"
Cover picture
The catalogue was 7 ¾ x 10 ¼ .
The 2nd edition shows the
prototype English Electric 'Deltic' with a lot of excited school
boys looking at it (including me, I think)..
The 4th edition shows the two tone green version D9002.
Other edition information will be added later, as it becomes available.
The price of the 2nd and 4th editions was 6d
In general where descriptions differ, the 4th edition version
is used.
Last Modified: 1st December 2003