Thank you all so much for this forum thread. I have just today 26th August 2011 bought a new Lego Hobby Train (10183) set for my daughter (and me too ) and would not have been able to go ahead and build all 30 train models without the instructions you have all provided on here.
I have my old 1970 blue track and have recently purchased a lot more.
Looking forward to getting going and adding Lego Power functions to the trains too.
All the best
Philip