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I have just come on the web site and have been looking at the forum and find that it does not work as well as the old one.

I have tried using the Hornby 20mm magnetic pipe couplings and compaired them to the Hunt ones I have used . The Hornby Pipe couplings seem to measure the same as the Hunt ones. Although the Hunts have to be turned upside down to couple to the Hornby's. I have yet to try the 17mm ones but think they may be to close and cause buffer lock.

My Hornby 4478 Hermit A1 LNER 4-6-2 arrived a couple of weeks ago. Very smooth running model and very happy with her.

I went to the Great Model railway show at MK. While I was there I bought the new Turbomotive 6202 LMS loco. Very impressed with her. runs smoothly. So far no faults or defects noticed. A couple of weeks ago I had the New Castle Class loco from Hornby. It is smooth and good runner.

I now have all 4 P2's, all run in and tested and I am very happy with them. They are well detailed and run very well. All pull my 15 coach train with some wheel slip. On a train of 10 coaches they all run well no slipping wheels. All I need to do now is to sort out the running of my 2001 Cock of the North from 2014.

In the last week I have added to my LNER fleet, 2002 Earl Marischal, 2003 Lord Presdent, 2005 Thane of Fife and 2007 Prince of Wales all the new P2's 2-8-2 models. Which are excellant models and run very smoothly.

Hi Lee, I was only running a 15 coach train to compare the pulling power of Thane of Fife. It wss happy to pull 10 coaches. Most of my coaches trains are formed of 5 coaches due to terminus station only able to accommodate with loco.

I have had to contact Customer services at Hornby last week, on the telephone and confirmed by email. My email was responded to within a couple of hours and I found them very helpful and consider my interaction with them excellent.

It seems last time Hornby had CEO from outside the Model Railway world a number key staff left and things went pear shaped. It was also the last time Simon left and now it seems a new CEO has brought the retirement of Simon and Montana has left to pastures new. When Lindan became CEO he was with Simon the Driving force behind Hornby's upturn and great new models. However, time will tell with Olly Raeburn as CEO.

My new P2 2005 Thane of Fife has arrived and I have tested it and run it in. It runs extremly well and is very smooth. It is a loverly model and show just how good the P2/2 were with the A4 front. I have tested it pulling 15 coaches and it does not pull as well as the early P2/1 Cock of the North, without wheel spin. It does start the train with wheel spin but keep moving around my Railway 2nd radius curves. It still has the same problem on 3rd radius as it will still spin on starting the train. My P2/1 Cock of The North does not have any problems pulling the same 15 coaches. However I am very pleased with the model.

I have today received my first P2 R30130 Thane of Fife and like the new boxwith the Loco packaged with foam. I am now looking forward to my next 3 P2's R3985 Lord Presedent 2005 and R3984 2003 Earl Marishal and R3963 2007 Prince of Wales.

I have in the last 4 years or so I have pre-ordered with Hornby. I used to use local shops and one of the big box shifters only to have them cancelled because all orders exceeded the amount of the models to be produced. Then I missed out on loco's I wanted. I was very lucky my local model shop had ordered a few more than he required for his customers and was lucky to let me have one that was to go in shop stock. I have just had 3 email's to say my pre-ordered P2's are in stock. As the saying go when waiting for a bus , then 3 come along at once.

To my surprise my new Hornby LNER A3 Harvester arrived today. Once I opened the box to my surprise Hornby are supplying a loco crew with the loco. very happy to see this. The new loco has been modified since they released of Doncaster and Knight of the Thistle with a new front bogie and new connection between the tender and loco body. I will see once I have completed my running in process how it performs on point with the new bogie. The little bag of spare parts for fitting included the front step as well as a front coupling to go on the front if you want and the usual spare flanged wheels for rear pony truck + cylinder pipes.

A blue box V3 2-6-2T and have just had an email from Hornby to say my A3 Harvester is in stock and will be on it way to me soon.

Today my new R3434 Merchant Navy Channel packet 21c1 arrived.

Just rec'd my LNER A5 4-6-2T {GCR 9N Tank} lovely smooth model made by new company on the block. Sorry if post not allowed

The observation car does not need to have directional lights as the car was turned at the end of each trip.

I have had on order from Hornby the following P2's. R3983 Prince of Wales R3984 Earl of Marischal R3985 Lord President. I hope with luck I may get them some time this year. All were ordered before 2022 so I hope the they honour my pre-orders.

I am not aware the LMS Coronation Scot coaches used articulated bogies. Hornby have not used articulated bogies on the latest versions of the LMS Coronation Scot coaches. They did a lot of research into them before they produced them. Hornby are using articulated Gresley bogies for the new LNER Coronation Coaches [1937 train] due to be released soon.

I wonder if Hornby will have them out in time for King Charles coronation. I saw the pre-production unpainted models at the Great Electric show at MK a couple of weeks ago. Simon was not saying anything as to when they will be out. He has a plan, I think, although I saw they were shown as Sept 2023 for release. It would be nice to see them out in time for the King Coronation, as they designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for the LNER in 1937 ready for King Charles Grand Fathers Coronation.

I bought some years ago from a model shop in St Albans a packet of coal made up from bits of crushed painted pellets from old polystyrene boxes, paint black. Very light and looked just the job. The shop has long since closed. My current local shop in old Stevenage did have real coal. But I found it to be too crushed for loco coal. I think it was great for ballasting.

I have been modelling railways for 65 years and do not consider that I am a novice and to suggest that running in new loco's is rubbish. I have always run new loco's in and find that if a problem show up it can be returned to Hornby for repair or replacement. I too remember having to run in cars. My current car had to be run in. As per Handbook. This was new 2020.

Valances were removed in 1941 and were not replaced post war. With regard to post war 1945-47 colour and lettering. The Garter Blue colour was restored with Stainless Steel numbers and letters. Also in 1946 they received Thompson new numbers.

You could use the Hornby N2 0-6-2 tank to pull them. They have produced same in GNR GNR green and LNER black both look fine with the LNER 6 wheel Coaches and the GNR 4 wheel coaches.

It has a metal footplate and has a good weight and pull 20 coaches with out any difficulty.