This is another set my wonderful wife gave me for Christmas one year. While this is technically a Marx set that engine is surely a Joy Line conversion. Of course the English didn't use "Cow Catchers" on their engines so they were fitted out with the typically European buffers which appear to have been made from nails! The rest of the set is purely English, the E-25 tender and the "blood and custard' coaches.
These sets do not show up very often.



Boxes used in the British market were more substantial than those used domestically. While the American clockwork sets would have dividers, the English sets have separate pockets. And where American sets used unadorned corrugated box bottoms, the English sets had paper covered boxes of heavy, stiff cardstock.



Earlier English sets had beautiful artwork on the tops but this one is just a text description. While the set is pretty the box is not. And PINK??? Lets give them the benefit of the doubt and presume this box had been red at one time (not).
I wonder what year this was released? I suspect late 30's while the Brits were at war and we weren't.




This picture shows the Joy Line key with a British key on the left. Note the collar on the English key not on the American example.