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Yes I saw it and I thought that it was awesome, their so much funny parts, I cheered for Hornby to win from my seat like a crazy man and of course Hornby one a British company and James May got very emotional when his child hood model the Flying Scotsman

had helped Hornby win.
Personally I couldn't believe a old model like that could last long but there you go.
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'You can hear the realistic chuffing sounds' and 'I heard stories you stopped to talk to people about wine' were two of my favourite quotes. The BBC music people were at it agian, making the race as emotional as Dumbledore dying in Harry Potter.
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The parts I liked was when the German team was using a battery powered loco and a couple of seconds of running it exploded and I thought it was very funny. The other bit I liked was that the British team was using a fake Thomas to cover up the fact that

they using a hydrogen powered loco.
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It was a great program, it's great to see that Flying Scotsman actualy compleat the full corse instead of it failing on the first curve!
I also liked that track laying machine, it reminds me of that machine that comes in dominoe sets that lays the dominoes

in a streight line,Maybe that's where they got the idea from.

Jacob
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I agree it was a very entertaining program, however, I cringed every time James May refered to the locomotives as "Toy" trains. Come on James if you are as passionate about model railways as you say you are then call them models not toys.
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It appeared to me as though the 'jet exhaust' was pointing slightly downwards. Therefore with the power at the head of the train it may have blasted the train off the track. Probably wrong, though!
walkingthedog said:I was wondering why they pushed

the train with the ducted fan. As soon as it arrived at a curve. the train carried straight on. It would have been better to pull it.
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That's a good point PP, but you can't push model trains at high speed, they don't have enough weight. If the power had been on the front, it might have been possible to angle the 'jet exhaust' slightly up which might have kept it on the track. I guess

they may have tried that but failed.
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It looked to me like they didn't really want to use the fan train because they'd already made the hydrogen one. I think the German's alcohol powered train was meant to be their runner, running a train off batteries isn't really ground breaking (in fact

the normal trains were running off of batteries!)
I had been wondering if it was possible to make an internal combustion engine small enough to fit in a model. Turns out it is, but for about 10 seconds!
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I was lucky enough to have the wife call me over from my research into stay alive circuits to watch it. She protests a bit about my hobby but she enjoyed it too. It was god to see the German's beaten when we hear so much about the superior quality of their

models. I too was impressed with the 125 as it did a heck of a lot better than the Hitachi they used last time. The exploding train was not battery powered though from what I remember. The battery one did finish though not in time to beat the hydrogen powered

one. James May is a hero and his irreverant style is a great antidote to too much seriousness. It was Also nice to see Simon Kohler. I agree with the previous comments. He is a great guy and an asset to Hornby. Give him a bigger budget and a pay rise and also

a complementary iMac so he can see how much better Apple is than pc.
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It took over 12 hours to download this programme but it was well worth it. Just as good, if not better, than the original series. The 125 did a great job and so nice to see Simon there to enjoy it. Good work Hornby. The German train was a "blast".
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It was a great show, but thinking about it, technically the germans got a train to the other end first, so you'd think that they'd gotten the record for first train to travel that far, but at one point, one of them says 1/87 scale, which is HO gauge and

at the start, James May says the record was for OO gauge railway, so although they got there first, they were on a slightly different gauge, so the record for OO gauge would've gone to us anyway.

Enough nitpicking, it was an awesome show and I'm glad

the 1972 Flying Scotsman, "with realistic chuffing sound", made it to the end and beat its rival train so that we won. Horray.
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rman said:Yes I saw it and I thought that it was awesome, their so much funny parts, I cheered for Hornby to win from my seat like a crazy man and of course Hornby one a British company and James May got very emotional when his child hood model the Flying

Scotsman
had helped Hornby win.Personally I couldn't believe a old model like that could last long but there you go.

To be honest, we went rather easy on the Germans. Nellie would have done the course in a couple of minutes! ;)
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