Brio train set questions - espec if you have the car garage

[boo64]

Thinking of buying ds (2.3) some Brio stuff - probably the big set of train/ car garage and town stuff in the GLTC catalogue as it looks fab.

Questions for anyone who has this:

• can I use the Tomy plastic thomas trains on it
• would normally dinky toy type cars be too big to go on the car garage/ down the ramps?

p.s. can you get motorised trains for Brio?

not sure if the exact answer that you want but here goes

at work we have got loads of road and track

The track is a mix of ikea / tesco / lots of brio and i think a job lot from lidl as well and ELC

we have an ELC level crossing which has track AND road on it

I THINK all our road is ELC

we have an ELC carpark / garage type thing, which includes a car wash AND an ELC '999 station' (ie a little garage for a police car ambulence and firengine.)

It all joins with each other fine.

I think the brio track is the best.... some of the other tracks have plastic bits which you have to insert (and sometimes are either really difficult OR fall out, though id say about 70% are ok and going in and out easily enough) apart from that the track all links up fine. (although the brio track does seem the best its so much more expensive not sure its best value IUSWIM)

as for trains we have lots of genuine brio trains and other wooden one, for example the tesco trains made for the tesco track... which is almost identical to the brio track.

We have lots of vehicals... some 'Thomas' ones which i think are brio, loads of wooden ELC vehicals / lorries etc etc, and they all fit on the track and road. (also the road has a wedged bit in the middle that the trains can use too)

also have some cheeper metal / plastic 'typical' cars and some of them fit and some dont.

Upstairs we have the Tomy blue 'thomas' track... this definitely does not fit with any of the wooden track. i think the trains from that track dont fit properly on the wooden track either... though the brio etc trains drive quite happily on the blue tracks.

Hope that helps

yes you can get motorised ones...

we have a motorised thomas the tank engine

also all our dinky toy type cars are fine for the ramps and lift etc in the garage, just not always great on the road

Thanks NannyL!
Very helpful

tesco, tesco, tesco - their track is just as good as the brio that we have, they have special pieces (lifting bridge and station are good, also level crossing) and they do motorised trains.
We had a plan city garage and road track that the inlaws got for ds1 but it wasn't used that much, the train track got alot more use. I think the ELC road track is better than the plan city (which is brio) stuff because it have edges so the cars can't fall off (which the plan city doesn't).

i've looked on the tesco site and i can't find this tesco brio lookalike track. can someone point me in the right direction.

They only do it in store from what I know. And only then in the big Tesco extra places not the regular tescos.

Hatfield has it if that's anywhere near you (unlikely of course given you could be anywhere!)