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.

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.

sets

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7810 Push-Along Steam Engine

7819 Postal Container Wagon

7720 Diesel Freight Train Set

articles

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Logos, languages, and the 1980s LEGO market 6 May 2022 by Fouke Boss The LEGO packaging, instructions and sticker sheets do not contain much written text. But the scraps of text they do contain allow us to catch a glimpse of the market that LEGO was targeting during the 1980s.

instructions

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7720 24 pages 120172

7816 2 pages 120179

7710 24 pages 120171

boxes (3D)

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7852 28.2 x 14.3 x 2.3 cm

7864 18.7 x 15.6 x 6.5 cm v2 (1981-1988)

7821 19.0 x 12.8 x 6.3 cm 195490

minifigs

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jred016 Male in Red Jacket 1 set grey era only

pln060 Male with Plain Black Torso 1 set grey era only

jred014 Male in Red Jacket 2 sets grey era only