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