Random set of the day: Railway Station
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Today's random set is 7822 Railway Station, released in 1980. It's one of 28 Trains sets produced that year. It contains 384 pieces and 3 minifigs.
It's owned by 560 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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This was a bit before my time, more's the pity, because it's such a beautiful, gorgeous old train station. Platform on both sides of the tracks, ticket office, undercover waiting area, and that beautiful overhead walkway... there's very little about this one that isn't lovely.
I love the simplicity of classic town era lego...
I was really lucky to pick this up from a family that has a kid getting out of Lego for pretty cheap. While the new train station has a lot of flash there is something about this one that stands out to me.
Stairs!
Essentially the same set in a modernized fashion was released as 7937 (https://brickset.com/sets/7937-1/Train-Station) in 2010. The similarites are astonishing and do not only cover the "shape" of the model but also lots of details like the clock, the timetable on the right side and the street lamps.
I love this. So neat and funky, nothing unnecessary.
This brings my memories to my childhood because this set was the center of my city lay-out as a kid. with the bus station 379 set always in front of it. So that my mini figures could catch the bus or be on time for the train.
I still own it off course like all the sets from my youth it is spread out between several boxes.
This is really nice! I want to build this using modern colours :)
One of 28 trains set produced that year!!! (And yes, I'm aware most of those would be track extension sets, but still...)
^ A few of them are track extension sets, but look at the releases. 4 full train sets, and 3 engines (two steam, one diesel) sold by themselves. To say nothing of carriages and railway buildings. All in the one year!
These days, trains are a new freight engine, and a new passenger with no doors, what, once every 3 or so years? Maybe a station once or twice a decade? And yes, I get it, but that doesn't make it less sad that Lego trains just don't matter all that much anymore.
A bit to commuter rail-esque for my taste. Looks more at home in a heavy metropolitan area in Europe or an Eastern US City than out here in the West. If Lego ever released a station on par with a modular building, I'd love to see them tackle a "small town" station. Like the wood Union Pacific Standard, or one of the Mission Revival designs used by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake, Santa Fe, or the Western Pacific. The holiday station is the closest we have gotten to that small town station feel, but I'd like to see it given a proper treatment.
We have 4554-1 (1991) and 7824-1 (1983).
7824 is the best train station in my opinion. It’s small and does not have the most lovely architecture, but all the different heights just make it a pleasing set to build and look at. I loved building and playing with it when I was young.
Every Christmas all of our LEGO sets were build and set up as our Christmas village. 4554 was purchased to be rebranded as our LEGO Town’s city hall. I think we build it on flat base plates and used these rised square bases to expand our marina and shipping docks. It’s a neat build and quite beautiful for sure, but I loved and love 7824 so much more.
The stairs make this RSotD an interesting station—even today, I’d love pushing a train under that catwalk—and I’m somehow surprised we don’t own it because my father loves trains—Was it available in the States? I’m glad we didn’t get this station though, because my father probably won’t have bought 7824 a few years later saying that they were too similar.
On these stations with the stairs across the track to get to the other "platform": one thing I never understood is if there is only one track, why are there two platforms? You could just enter and exit the train at the station using the main platform only?
Awesome set! I had seen 7937-1 before but I never realized it had such a similar predecessor so long ago. It's also interesting that the piece count is similar even though the newer version has a smaller station and sturdier single-piece flights of stairs — though I imagine the taxi accounts makes up for some of that difference.
The first LEGO train sets that I was ever exposed to as a kid were the 9-volt trains of the 1990s, and it was my dad who collected them rather than my brothers and me. Even so, I have a lot of nostalgia for the early 9-volt sets like the Metroliner and Metro Station, in part because they so closely resemble my childhood memories of real-life Amtrak trains and stations.
I have this Set since the middle of the 1980 and I like it very, very much!
12v are fantastic, real working signal with light, electronic Points, electronic light bricks for lamps and houses.
Where is it today Lego, where...???
@rmharwood - you’re not wrong, but google “Yeovil Pen Mill” for a real life example :)
Like others I had (and loved) 7824 but I always hankered after this one as it (and variations of it) featured prominently in the 7777 Ideas book. I was really happy when 7937 was released as it referenced and updated many of the design cues from this set...
It looks orange in the picture. It should get an image without lighting issues.
1980 was the big year for launching the grey track- that's why there were so many sets (though four trains, two 12V locos, a push along loco and four carriages/wagons is huge).
Extension packs for this would have been good- to lengthen the platforms (at least to fit 7740) and widen the bridge (to span two tracks). Lovely little set otherwise, wish I'd owned it!
28 sets...
Despite not owning it, its my favorite pre-90s LEGO railway station . I just love the overhead bridge. Got myself a 7937 many years back as well.