Child Guidance / Kiddie Land Trains

Turns out the branch rail I picked out by chance was special. There were three in the box, only one has the split in the connector like Plarail does, the others are solid like the rest of the track. It is also marked 10-12 at the bottom in addition to the marks near the connector that all the other pieces have

It also seems like they might have only made the one branch rail, not the opposite connector style, they all have one input and two output.

Here's some of the black rails and their grey counterparts. The branch rail is longer then the normal black straight rail, but is the same as the grey rails - maybe this was something they fixed when changing to the grey style?

There were also these two buildings. They have no markings underneath. Are these related to Plarail buildings at all?

Here are all the accessorise included. Looks like mainly telephone poles, streetlights, and signals, all in the up position. I hope the bases fit the later Tomy trees, I have a lot of trees missing bases.


I checked eBay to see if there were any other black rails, and I didn't see any, but I did spot these which look related to old Plarail ascending track. They have the round connectors from the grey track, not the square Tomy ones.


It seems possible Tomy and Child Guidance worked together at some point, as we saw with the Shuttle Train. Possibly the Tomy copy was earlier and Tomy asked Child Guidance to change it. It definitely seems like the grey/red track is a lot more common.