Mechanical wind up train toy
Production date
Circa 1960s
Description
Pressed tin toy Clockwork Railway. Square base with bevelled edges & a railway circuit on top. Railway has two segmented trains, blue & red. Trains travel through a tunnel in a mountain and a station. The train can be stopped in the station by a fold down gate at the right side of the station. Clockwork mechanism is wound via a metal key protruding from the mountain. As the train moves a bell, mounted on the side of the mountain, sounds.
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250/72
2544
1972.250.6
98/75
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