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After the Second World War, children's favorite toy was the electric train. All toy merchants had a train section. JEP and Hornby shared the majority of the market, offering models at all prices for all social categories. Other brands offered products in a more marginal way. There were also real models that were prohibitively expensive and difficult to operate because for scale 0, a lot of space was needed and housing did not have any! In this first episode, we will see the basic principles and operation of "Tin Plate" trains, then our largest national manufacturer JEP, whose catalog products we will revive on a layout installed in the garden of a house in "Jepville" somewhere in France. This layout gives these toy trains what they have always lacked: space. The second episode will be dedicated to Hornby, LR, BLZ finally we will see how in H0 a Jouef manufacturer who still exists today put an end to the Tin Plate in 0 by proposing very cheap solutions using plastic material with a realism that lithographed sheet metal did not have. More than 200 rushes, photos and various documents were necessary to make this film which will evoke many memories to our elders of Christmases past and to those who by playing with these trains found their vocation and entered the great SNCF house