DaveW123

Evening all, I hope someone would be able to give us some advice with Thomas & Friends Locomotives. In August 2019, we bought my son a new OO gauge Thomas the Tank Locomotive and it worked fine for a couple of weeks. After a couple of weeks, it was going around our track, slowed down, started burning/smoking and then completely stopped. It then ceased to work. We have sent the locomotive to the Hornby Repair Dept. to be fixed and decided, as Hornby have stopped making them to purchase a second Thomas Locomotive. After about a week of operation exactly the same has happened to the second locomotive and it went very slowly around the track whilst burning/smoking. I have contacted Hornby again about this who have been very good about this first train to date. Our other trains, like the Hornby Flying Scotsman work fine and have worked fine since we have completed the track. Is this a common issue with Thomas Locomotives? We have also purchased Gordon, Edward and Percy, for our son, for Christmas. I have tested them and they seem to work fine but we are very concerned that, after a couple of weeks, these will stop working too. Should we be concerned about this?