Wooden Toy Trains for Children

For over a century, the world famous Brio Company from Sweden have been making toys from wood, and probably their most famous is their children’s wooden train system, which has been in production since the early 1970s. This started as a set of natural finish interlocking wooden rails with some colourful push-a-long engines and trucks. Naturally as technology has developed, so has their wooden train railways, and there is now even a battery-powered version to satisfy their slightly older customers!

Brio has plenty of competitors though such as Learning Curve who have the Thomas & Friends licence, and Bigjigs Rail being two of the most popular. These wooden toy trains for children don’t just include track sections like straights, curves, points, crossovers, bridges and turntables. There’s also a massive range of buildings like engine sheds and stations, tunnels, signal boxes, water towers and much more. Trains also depict old fashioned steam engines and modern diesel electric types with a great choice of trucks, carriages and wagons to tow behind them.

Wooden trains however, are not just Brio size. Nearly all young children love pull along toys, and wooden trains are one of the most popular styles. Thomas the Tank Engine is probably the favourite, and this character with his many friends will probably be around forever. Wood is one of the finest natural products, and although plastic is a cheaper alternative, nothing compares to the warm feel and texture of a real children’s wooden train for a young toddler.