Bargain Lima Kiddies Starter Set

Cute little thing. Speaking of little are the wheels?

Well they are if you mean are they HO/OO scale?  The trains are exactly HO/OO scale, wouldn't look out of place and would be compatible with a normal analogue HO/OO set of track.  The only difference being battery powered (2 x AA's) they don't have any remote control or ability to control with a standard analogue track controller.  But looking at the model I reckon it would be pretty simple to replace the driving bogie with a standard Hornby or Lima HO/OO driving bogie and effectively turn it into a normal HO/OO train.  All you'd need is a donor HO/OO train or alternatively some spare parts (easily available).

 

I'll give them extra props here, the Hornby Playtrains are fictional models [nothing wrong with that mind], but Lima have actually used a real-world model, specifically the Italian 'Italo' express, an Alsthom 'AGV 575' type of TGV derived express train that runs privatized express service on the Italian high-speed network in competition with the state-owned Trenitalia, so yeah, nice one Lima 

Looking at the train I reckon these train bodies are moulded from the Hornby Eurostar machine tools as they look pretty identical apart from the decoration.  As such it makes the probability of electrifying these using a set of Eurostar bogies dead likely