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Have just brought some nice Photos of locomotives including a Glass negative of a coal engine on shed.

I have just brought a Hornby LNER B12 no 8544 would any one know when this was made by Hornby? I Know its not LMS but I could not help may self!!!

my latest buys are.. 'British Railways Steam Locomotives 1948-1968' LMS Locomotive Profiles No 7 - The Mixed Traffic Class 5s Part 3-Caprotti British Railways Goods Wagons Series No1 and No2.

I could not bring myself to buy one to many faults for the price ended up building one with a second to do,, this is one Hornby should redesign. I think you will find the Princess Royals had bissel trucks Not Cartazzi

just got the the new B teams 2-4-2t and the 4F

I got a pro scale princess royal a L &Y 2-4-2t long bunker and a jhonsons 2f tender loco. And 3 DDC chips hornby ones for some of my scots

i see some are saying motors are getting hard to find? is this just in model shops or on the net if so is hornby doing it on deliberately to make us have to bay a new loco every time a motor dies or just good old bad planing by the company

i bought two lms pugs of eBay 1 hornby 1 dapol the hornby one needed a new motor costing £5 which is not to bad the dapol uses the same motor as when i took it out to give it a good clean. i swop them round just to see but for some reason the hornby pugs have two different motor so what ever you do keep the R no safe for spares. i do agree hornby would do better if they kept it done to say 5-10 motors

i recall that hornby use to do loco driven models then they all become tender drive as it was seen better i remember an duchess in the late 70's early 80's having being tender drive but when i had to take the loco apart for something can't remember what now you could see where the motor would have fitted and now we have gone back to loco driven i wounder if it will swing back to tender in the years to come for such things as opening smoke boxes lights in the fire box smoke gens or even sound etc etc are wanted by the modellers as for which is best that all depends on what you want from your loco slow running power smooth running reliability or (cost which tends to be taken out of our hand as hornby pick the motor they use) but after building some of my own locos you get to use other motors which are on the market and can see just how bad the RTR ones really are has in no spares under powered etc as for five pole motor well seven pole motors have been around since the 70's