Rails Of Sheffield Avis 

Brilliant Work from the Second Hand team of Rails in dealing with the purchasing of my Model railway stuff. They are both professional and courteous when dealing with you.

I use this company a lot for my 00 railway collection and have spent over £3,000 to date -they stock a huge variety of railway goods as well as diecast models etc. the staff are first class and Jake and Ben have been very helpful in buying some of my own locos and rolling stock
Packages arrive with 24 hrs well packed and ready for use -they were also voted retailer of the year by hornby in 2025 which is well deserved

Purchased a Sonic A5 with dcc sound from rails great item, free postage as well.

Loco kept stopping I thought it was the pickups, I took it to the shop saw a guy I think he’s called Rob who took a good look at it and tested it on the shops layout, it was perfect.

long story short he suggested I check my track where it stopped. It was perfectly clean but had buckled during the summer heat.

Great knowledge from him.

Fair offer and super quick payment. Only wish would be that sellers could download labels and deposit shipments rather than having to arrange a pickup.

I've just sold some locomotives for the 4th time to Rails and once again it went so easy.
I didn't speak to anybody it was all done by email I just described the locomotives and they stood on their quote once they received them.

I sold some items to them recently. Ben from the Preowned Department was perfect as the communication was great and payment was made very swiftly. Many thanks

Decided to sell my N Gauge locos and made an enquiry. Swift response with very reasonable offer. They arranged transport from my location and after assessing, contacted me and the deal was done. A superb service and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to anyone. In fact I already have!

Item was very well packaged, arrived next day as promised and was the best price I could find. Faultless.

Great service from this company. I dealt with Jake who was friendly polite and informative. I had some locomotives to sell, I was offered a good price which I accepted. Quick efficient turnaround from me sending the locomotives to the money in the bank. I highly recommend this company.

Dissapointed in their less than fair offer to purchase my unused as new OO gauge locos. After reading their literature bigging up about them offering fair prices etc, I sent them details of around 6 locos (inc a pristine unused Accurascale Manor Class Dcc with sound) all of which were unused in like new condition and in undamaged original packaging. I was shocked to see they offered me less for all of them than the price they are asking for a single used Accurascale Manor class currently advertised on their website, therefore, in effect they were getting pure profit on the other 5 locos, which is just plain greedy. . Glad I was not desperate to sell them...

Great communication, very helpful and very prompt and very fair payment. I was selling my late Father's collection. They even arranged Parcelforce pickup from my house - amazing!

Moving home and downsizing means the OO gauge model railway has had to go. Rails of Sheffield have been superb. Took everything and paid a very fair price. They arranged a Parcel Force pick-up. Payment has come through very promptly. An excellent service in every way. Will soon be asking advice about getting going in N Gauge.
Tony Rose, Colchester.

I recently sold my late husbands train collection to them. I found the service they provided was first class, and I would recommend them to anyone.

A very professional company with a "can-do" attitude. I wished to sell a large railway collection, they immediately said "no problem we can give you a price". There was constant communication by email. They gave a very fair price based on a loco list (plus some general info) and stood by it after collecting the collection and scrutinising it. The money was in the bank within hours. No hassle! Very pleased.

Sold some old locos to Rails… posted on Wednesday, cash in bank on Monday.

Very easy to deal with, communicated quickly and clearly by email.

Would use again.

My dad has a large collection of trains that we are slowly selling and Rails of Sheffield could not be more helpful. They offered a fair price and made the whole process incredibly easy. We packaged them and sent them to the shop in Sheffield and received funds for selling the trains within a few days. Great service and look forward to helping my dad sell more of his unused collection!

Really helpful team and very efficient from offering a good price for the model railway items to arranging collection and paying exactly what they stated. No hesitation in using them again and recommending Rails of Sheffield.

This was a really easy to use site. I was able to find and identify nearly all of my Dad's 40 year old railway collection. Jake at the company was really helpful, gave me a very fair price and I'm pleased that these items may well be giving other people pleasure, rather than sitting in a cupboard somewhere.

When I was thinning out my model railway items, mostly locos, I had Rails of Sheffield on my mind as they are the best and foremost dealers in second hand railwayania! Could I get a good deal from them? Yes I did and couldn't believe their offer..... Absolutely amazing! Never has my flabber been so gasted! These lads are superb to deal with and their collection service was within a couple of days and free of charge too! Brilliant!!!! A very well organised team of people!!!!

I had a large collection of American railroad items to trade in and the process was really slick and straight forward and a fair price was offered, saving me the trouble of listing on fleebay and then having to individually box and post each item. I would highly recommend Rails of Sheffield.