Welcome to 12v-grey.com, a tribute website to the great LEGO Trains sets of the 1980s! 12V or 12 Volts represents the voltage that was used to run the trains, while the grey tracks (as opposed to the blue tracks from the 1970's) dubbed this period the grey era.
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This website aimes to serve as an archive for the wonderful trains, tracks, remote controllers and buildings of the grey era, and hopes to preserve these marvelous sets, instruction booklets, boxes, designs, idea books, and - later on - all of your personal MODs en MOCs.
7777
Trains Ideas Book
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7810
Push-Along Steam Engine
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7835
Road Crossing
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![]() 32 pages
120620
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![]() 32 pages
120218
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120181
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![]() 28.2 x 14.3 x 3.6 cm
1980-1988 (v1)
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![]() 38.8 x 28.8 x 5.5 cm
1980-1982
191990
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![]() 14.2 x 9.4 x 4.6 cm
1989-1990 (v2)
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![]() 1986
20 pages
21.0 x 14.6 cm
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![]() 1980
1 page
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![]() 1987
1 page
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pln072
Male
1 set
grey era only
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pln060
Male with Plain Black Torso
1 set
grey era only
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pln001
Female with Plain Red Torso
2 sets
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