Huwbot's definitely been on a vintage train set kick lately.

"This station dates back to when we didn't have legs, just one weird lower body thing. It seems they aspired to have them, though, as they made this bridge over the tracks, with which they may someday climb up and use when they had any limbs to speak of."

Station to Station

OMG, there's two dismembered bodies in this set!

@bookmum:
Wait, you're younger than me? Wow. Never would have guessed. I did pass for 25 last year, though, so there is that.

I didn't have this set, but I always liked it.

@Randomness said:
"they made this bridge over the tracks, with which they may someday climb up and use"
They'd been chatting with a couple of Daleks who assured them that within a few years they'd be able to levitate!

Seeing that "cart" on the tracks reminds me of one of my fave NFB Can. shorts:
"The Railrodder" from 1965, w/Buster Keaton
Keaton's character crosses Canada in like 2-3days with loads of sight/visual gags...not a lick of dialog (in fairness he's by himself:))
Here's a colorized/restored version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYmcN12M97o

I did have to check the photo to see what kind of station; thought maybe it was of the fire variety judging by the colours, didn’t expect train

It's convenient that these figures can leave their lower bodies behind just to fit trough the doors.

And I thought the train in 60335 was weird, but this takes the cake.

I once replicated the draisine (with wheels from 657 + 687): It wasn't running well in track curves...

Looks as if they caught it halfway through the process of shifting from H0 scale to minifig-scale -- the ticket hall and food kiosk have transitioned, the footbridge hasn't.

@brick_r said:
"Seeing that "cart" on the tracks reminds me of one of my fave NFB Can. shorts:
"The Railrodder" from 1965, w/Buster Keaton
Keaton's character crosses Canada in like 2-3days with loads of sight/visual gags...not a lick of dialog (in fairness he's by himself:))
Here's a colorized/restored version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYmcN12M97o "

Thanks for sharing this! I enjoyed watching that!

Nice set, and love the large white windows... Egad thats a lot of stickers.

@kingalbino said:
"Its got a "Bistro" tho. Wow, I wonder what sort of gourmet foodnthey serve there? Bricks on toast?"

And it's in addition to a restaurant.

I did have that set! In fact... I still do. (although in bits, in my loft, and no idea if any stickers would be left attached.)

I still remember building this set as I'm sure not all the bricks used in certain steps were clearly shown on the instructions, and you were expected to deduce which elements were used. That was a fun (well, to me at least) element of building back in the 70's that modern sets have made waaay too easy.

Looks like "Houses of the World" scale, or maybe the other way round, Houses of the World are more based on pre-minifig scale.

It's interesting how there were 3 wide windows and doors all the way back the 50s : 1214-2: Windows and Doors , but it wasn't until 2019 when a modern variant of 1x3x3 window appeared.

@Randomness said:
""This station dates back to when we didn't have legs, just one weird lower body thing. It seems they aspired to have them, though, as they made this bridge over the tracks, with which they may someday climb up and use when they had any limbs to speak of.""

Unfortunately their aspirations would be dashed; the inside of the bridge couldn't accommodate a figure with a flat cap iirc.

@Stoker_stu:
When they evolved into true minifigs, they had arms and legs that could be used to crawl through the corridor. Prior to that, they could just lay there. Then again, they couldn't do much more than stand there when vertical.

Absolutely fascinated by the fact that there's gray all over this set and yet the rails are blue.

@Ottox said:
" @chefkaspa said:
"I once replicated the draisine (with wheels from 657 + 687 ): It wasn't running well in track curves..."

Me too. From those sets exactly.

Even after 48 years, my child brain is still convinced that the set is (inspired by) Valby Station in Copenhagen. Not that it looks like Valby, but that bridge - not many of those near Billund."

As a kid I thought it looked a lot like the bridge at Amersfoort railway station (Netherlands). It even had kind of the same colour if I remember well. (Edit: it has indeed: https://www.nicospilt.com/dia/dia3208.JPG )

What a great design fit it's time! The station, that is, not the 'train'.

I know this is an old set, but there's something about nostalgia, that gets me when I see these oldies, as a kid I loved all these sets Lego was bringing out and I couldn't afford many of them, so always dreamt of eventually getting the bricks and being able to make it myself. Which of course many years later I would now build something more modern, but the dream was there when I was a Kid.

I’ve written a Brickset review with my full thoughts, but I’m stuck between bathing in the nostalgic ‘vintageness’ of it all, and being completely frustrated with how useless it is as anything other than a display curiousity…

And I love the little wagon :)

I wonder what station it is based on, or just a generic modernist design which looked futuristic at the time but has probably dated really badly like my bricks from that time.