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Welcome:

Welcome to the Britannia Models website and our offerings in the 2008 model year! Our product listings for Hornby and Bachmann are now updated for 2008. Other product listings will get updated as we have time. Many, such as Metcalfe, Superquick, Peco, Ratio, Wills, and Kestrel, have not changed.

STORE HOURS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE:

Holiday Closure:

We will now be closed until Friday January 2nd, 2009, when normal business hours will resume.

During January and February we tried new opening hours and an appointment system for certain days. We have found this worked well in two ways. Firstly, we have more hours to respond to our email and phone orders, which is appreciated by our remote customers, and secondly, people visiting the store by appointment, were able to receive our full attention which was appreciated by them. Therefore we have decided to continue with the opening hours as shown below. This does not affect mail or phone orders, which are still available Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm pacific time. Our online order system and our fax and voicemail facilities, are of course available 24/7.

Mondays	Closed
Tuesdays	By appointment only
Wednesdays	By appointment only
Thursdays	By appointment only
Fridays	Open 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays	Open 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sundays	Closed

Tuesday to Thursday	To make an appointment for a store visit on one of these days, just call ahead on 604-538-2698

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello at the various train shows in 2008. Look out for our 2009 show schedule. We hope to see you in 2009.

We carry a large selection of products including Hornby, Dapol, Bachmann Branchline, Farish and Ace Trains, locomotives, rolling stock and accessories.

We also carry:

Other model railway accessories from Peco, Ratio, Wills, Metcalfe, Superquick, Kestrel.

Diecast road vehicles in OO scale from Corgi, Oxford, Base Toys, EFE, Cararama and Classix.

British magazines and videos (NTSC format) covering railway modeling, the real railway, past, present and preserved.

Plastic kits from Airfix, Tamiya, Italeria, Svesda plus paints, glues, brushes and tools.

So enjoy your visit to Britannia Models and try our friendly service. You can check out our history and a little bit more about us, here. Thank you for stopping by!

2009 Railway calendars are now available!

We now have the following calendars available:

SEASONS OF STEAM on Britain's Railways (great preservation and mainline locations)

CANADIAN TRAINS Through the Years (from the CP and CNR to Huron Central)

NARROW GAUGE Memories (Narrow Gauge Steam and Diesel from around the world)

Each 12" x 9" calendar has 12 pictures and is ready to hang on the wall

Price is $14.95 each. Any two for $26.00. All three for $33.00

Latest News:

November 17, 2008 - News out of Hong Kong/China is that Sanda Kan, who manufacture model trains for Hornby, Brawa, Atlas, Lionel, Walthers and many others, has been acquired by Kader Industries, who manufacture Bachmann trains for the US and UK markets. At this time we do not know if there will be any impact to delivery schedules of remaining 2008 releases.

- We now have in stock the Hornby DCC Train Sets and the Select and Elite, Hornby DCC Control Systems. Check our listings for prices. All the Hornby train sets and systems are supplied in North America with a 4 amp transformer.

- We are now carrying the Bassett-Lowke 2-rail, O gauge British outline models. Loco models include Class A3; Class J39 0-6-0; Re-built Patriot 4-6-0 and N Class Mogul 2-6-0. Call or email for pricing and ordering information.

- New items have arrived this week from Hornby, Bachmann and Ace Trains. Call or email for details. Also, watch out for information on the Dapol OO/HO gauge motorised track cleaner. Coming soon!

- We have received most of the planned 2008 releases in the Skaledale range from Hornby, in our most recent shipment. As many Skaledale items are now short-lived, we encourage you to contact us with your requirements. Also just received are the Skale Lighting accessories from Hornby. These are perfect for, you guessed it, lighting up your Skaledale or Lyddle End buildings. We have many more SkaleAutos too including more of the double-decker buses. A great buy at $11.50 per bus!

- A large amount of Triang, both British outline and Transcontinental, has just been received. If you are a Triang collector there are some nice items in this lot. We will not get a chane to put a list together until June now but if there are specific items you are looking for, let us know and if it is in the lot we will get back to you.

- Likwise we have a large collection of Hornby Dublo 2-rail. No listing available until next month.

- Lots of new, OO scale road vehicles are now unpacked. Cars from 1950's and 60's from Base Toys, Oxford Diecast, Classix and Corgi Trackside. Also many lorries and vans in liveries such as British Railways, BRS, Royal Mail, London Transport. Come by and see the large selection, or call us with your requirements.

- We have just listed a lot of new items on our Specials page and there are some GREAT deals on there. You find them first,they are yours! Check them out here

- We have our first Hornby items from the 2008 range. These include the Skaledale Coal Mine and many other new Skaledale buildings, plus a lot of the Skale Autos, road vehicles in 1:76 scale.

The streamlined version of Duchess of Hamilton is here in LMS Crimson with gold striping, based on the streamlining activity with the real engine by the NRM.

We also have Bachmann Jubilee 'Alberta' and 'Hong Kong' (sorry, the LMS version 'Australia' is currently sold out but more to come).

Also in are the first models in Hornby's Railroad Range of models at more affordable prices. These include, Flying Scotsman, LMS Jinty and Caledonian 0-4-0 Pug.

- We have just received a large order of 1:76 scale (OO scale) vehicles including Vauxhall Cresta, Humber Super Snipe, Ford Zephyr, sets of vehicles for Royal Mail, British Rail, London Transport, and many small vans such as Ford Anglia, Morris 1000, Bedford, Morris J, etc. Prices start at just $9.00 Check them out here

- We have a special offer, good until March 31st. Purchase the hard-cover, 100+ page book, 'Seasons of Steam' at the regular price of $39.95 and receive a free copy of the 2008 Seasons of Steam Calendar. Both these publications feature great colour images of steam locos at work on Britain's preservation railways and main line excursions. The calendar was originally $14.95 but can now be purchased on its own, for $12.50

- We received many new items between Christmas and New Year which we are now unpacking and advising our advance order customers. These include; more King Arthurs (Class N15 in SR and BR), Maunsell coaches in SR and BR, the first of the Stanier 2-6-4T's (LMS livery), Class A4 'Wild Swan', Class A3 'Ladas' Caledonian Train Pack and more. From Bachmann we have the first of the new Jubilees (BR liveried 'Hong Kong') and Standard Class 4MT 2-6-0's. So, lots to see if you drop by.

- New arrivals include the Hornby Rebuilt Royal Scots and Rebuilt Patriots, Dapol's N scale Virgin Voyager sets and BR (ex-Southern) Q1 Class 0-6-0 tender locos. We also have the Virgin Voyager 4-car train in OO scale from Bachmann.

- We have the Ace Trains petrol tank wagon sets #7 and #8 arriving soon! If we have not been able to contact you and you want one or both of these final tank wagon sets, please get in touch as soon as possible. We also have some of the Ace Celebration 4-4-0 locos coming in as well as the Brake Van (Guards Van) which is available as a stand alone item and is available free to anyone who has ordered through Britannia Models,all the petrol tank wagon sets, number 1 thru 8, in exchange for the vouchres that were included in each of the tank wagon sets (i.e. you would have 8 vouchers to exchange for a free Guards Van). In a couple of months we expect to receive the all new Ace Trains Castle Class 4-6-0 loco in GWR and BR liveries. Place your order now to ensure delivery from the first batch.

Note that all these locos are three-rail, DC only models.