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This page last updated 25 January 2012
Each page individually dated.


Model trains in HO, OO, N, O, G and T scales

40 Tyers Street
(Princes Hwy), Stratford, Vic. 3862. Australia.
Phone (03) 5145 6611 - hours below ONLY please.
From outside Australia 61 3 5145 6611 - Australian Eastern Standard Time

Business Hours

Hobbies Plus will be closed on Australia Day (for once).
Shall be open Saturday 28th between 10am and 12pm ONLY.
Will be open Friday 27th 10am-5pm as usual.

Normally open Wednesday to Friday 10-5
Saturday 10-3
Other times by appointment or chance.

New to the hobby of model railways?
Interested in starting?
Try our Beginner's Guide to Model Railways pages.

Click here for a "Virtual visit" to Hobbies Plus.

Section L
HO scale VR structures

ready to place on your layout.
Now on their own dedicated page.

 

T gauge is here.
The world's smallest commercial model railway system.

The BIGGEST thing to happen to ready-to-run Australian Railway Modelling in years.
 
The VR DERM
in O GAUGE

 

Powerline HO
Victorian Grain Hoppers
in stock

 

HASKELL Backscenes
Give your layout more depth with Australian scenes for all scales, printed on self-adhesive vinyl, up to 6m long.
More due soon.
Orders now being taken.

 


Australian N scale page.

Digital Command Control

Looking for DCC?

HO scale

Track maintenance vehicles

 


Hobbies Plus is the Australian importer and distributor* of Frateschi products from Brazil.
Budget structure kits, South American, New Zealand, South Africa and Taiwan prototypes.
* With the exception of some Australianised items distributed exclusively by
Powerline Models Pty Ltd.

Bachmann
Thomas the Tank Engine

 


Please note that stock and prices shown in these pages are subject to change.
There may be a delay before the changes are reflected on the site.
Prices are in AU$ and include 10% GST.
Customers outside Australia may deduct the GST amount.



Warning: This site may contain humour.

Site launched 23.10.03


Why not take a train to Stratford? Timetable details here.
Yes, our shop is fully air conditioned.


This site cobbled together and corners tied up with code 55 nickel-silver rail by Darren Hodges.

Note: All photos on this site © by Darren Hodges, Hobbies Plus.
Unless noted otherwise.

This site is not a complete list of our current stocks. The site is worked on and updated as time allows. Some items shown may have sold since the last update. If no further stocks are expected, these items will be deleted from the site as soon as possible. Please note that each page has the date of its last update shown.
Prices are subject to change.

This page last updated 25 January 2012

Presently located on the hobbiesplus.com.au domain, are the following sites.

www.hobbiesplus.com.au
Model Railway Supplies
(the one you're looking at right now).

Signspotters
The Australian Road and Rail Signs and Signals photo gallery.

Gunzel_gallery
Darren's Railway Photo Gallery.

 VR McKeen Railmotor operating manual  
Online copy of the Victorian Railways Operating Manual for the remarkable 1912 McKeen cars.
 

The following site is also maintained by Hobbies Plus.

Gippsland Model Engineering Society
Miniature Railway, Traralgon.
(www.gmes.org.au)


 

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