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Title: Can someone identify this Little loco and wagons please?
Post by: Nervous Norvus on July 29, 2020, 03:25:25 PM
Trying to sell a few trains etc for a friend who's partner died some time ago.
This little train and wagons has no manufacturers name/markings, and I can find no reference on the internet.
Despite having train models myself over the years, I have no idea as to the make or model.
Can anyone identify it for me please?

(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/97/8119-290720152248.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=97586)

(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/97/8119-290720152504.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=97587)
Title: Re: Can someone identify this Little loco and wagons please?
Post by: Roy L S on July 29, 2020, 03:35:03 PM
I think the loco is Minitrix, and if the wagons are start of the same package then likely they are too.

Roy
Title: Re: Can someone identify this Little loco and wagons please?
Post by: Jim Easterbrook on July 29, 2020, 03:41:56 PM
Could this be it?
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-minitrix-gauge-passenger-468244223 (https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-minitrix-gauge-passenger-468244223)
Title: Re: Can someone identify this Little loco and wagons please?
Post by: railsquid on July 29, 2020, 03:42:37 PM
I suspect that's a Minitrix T3/ BR 89.7 like this one: https://picclick.de/Minitrix-Spur-N-2914-T3-Dampflok-BR-89-143662633069.html (https://picclick.de/Minitrix-Spur-N-2914-T3-Dampflok-BR-89-143662633069.html)

Minitrix appears to have made a fair few variants of this prototype, see this list: https://www.spur-n-datenbank.de/cb_ergebnis.php?s_katid=568&s_hersteller=Minitrix (https://www.spur-n-datenbank.de/cb_ergebnis.php?s_katid=568&s_hersteller=Minitrix)
Title: Re: Can someone identify this Little loco and wagons please?
Post by: Nervous Norvus on July 29, 2020, 04:14:46 PM
Thanks VERY much for the replies chaps. It is indeed the very one that Jim Easterbrook posted a link to.
Made things a little easier for me, so once again, thanks a lot.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Can someone identify this Little loco and wagons please?
Post by: ntpntpntp on July 29, 2020, 04:28:52 PM
Yes, Minitrix T3 set.  It looks quite an old style set, but some of these were as late as the mid 1980s as battery sets for Lufthansa (though I thought the packaging for those was different).

The T3 loco model itself has been around since the 60s (the British N Dock Tank used the same chassis).