Hornby 2024 Range Announcements 

Absolutely shocked about Hattons, bought so much stuff from them, quality company. However, if you had to retail some of this Hornby stuff it might be damn hard to make a living. You did your best to be positive Sam, thank you.

Seriously, who wants a train with the Beatles heads on the side. 😆

Hi Sam, the platinum jubilee 67 is not a late release commemorative item. This livery was actually carried by the loco in real life so it is a genuine model.

I like how the model that use to be Thomas is going to have the face of one of his previous narrators printed on the side of it.

Hi Sam. Not sure how you managed it but somehow I think you made their range launch more exciting than they did! I watched it through and yet learnt far more from your presentation. That said they did show Loco#1 as a running sample on their Q&A and it looks amazing.

As far as the E2 goes, there are plenty of actual liveries for it: LBSCR black, BR black, SR green (unless it wore black irl)… if the Beatles thing must continue, put Ringo Starr on a blue E2 with red stripes. wink. Wink. WIIIIINK!! A BR green L1 is something I’m rather excited for, as is the King Class and the green Class 46. Although a J83 in NBR would’ve been nice to see 😢 No Great Bear, but that’s ok, that means no anticlimactic backflip today either haha Thanks for doing this, Sam, much appreciated. See you soon!

We can't afford to lose more companies. Let's keep it positive.

Each year waiting for this video. And happy new year Sam.

Excellent summary of the announcements Sam. I watched the Hornby video and some others and yours was the best, well planned and professional. Well done. Can't wait for your take on the hattons and Warley news.

here's what i think of all these: 2:45 Locomotion No. 1: honestly looks pretty cool, very unusual, but it's quite complex too. 4:24 P2: smoke deflectors look cool, and i also am a P2 guy, so that one's cool. 5:11 Beetles Train Pack: *no.* 5:43 Jinty Train Pack: coaches look nice, and combined with a BR black engine, it makes a cool train pack. 6:46 Midland Compound Train Pack: I love Midland Railway locomotives, and the coaches look stunning. 9:11 County Class Train Pack: another nice combination, with the GWR green loco, and the GWR brown & cream coaches. also looks nice. 10:35 Beetles 0-6-0: what is that thing. 11:19 Rovex Jinty: why does this actually look half-decent?? 12:36 Platinum Jubilee Class 67: this was actually painted on a real Class 67, and honestly, i kinda like it for some reason. i know some people are saying Hornby is trying to milk the Platinum Jubilee in the comments, although considering it is an actual livery, and not like that random HST in the silver that was announced last year, i'm still fine with it. *(please do not argue in the replies ok thanks)* 13:37 HM7000 Class 47: as with any railroad plus model, the decoration looks good, and the sound is a good thing to have. 14:18 HM7000 Class 66: let's just hope that this one doesn't have the crappy wrap like the other Hornby Class 66 that you reviewed... 14:48 BR Green/Black L1's: i'm excited to see these in the range again, they are very cool models. it is a bit on the pricy side of things but it is very cool. 16:06 J83: nice little railroad tank engine, i love that shade of green too. 17:19 King Class: once again, very cool. i love the 4-6-0's. 18:00 Tri-ang Remembered 0-4-0's: cool concept, poorly executed. 20:58 Dublo A4: nice decoration, nice detail, stupidly expensive. 21:17 Britannia Class: another nice BR green locomotive. the Britannia's always look cool. 21:38 Isle of Wight Terrier: the Terriers are always nice to see, the black with red lining and gold text also looks very smart. 22:15 Isle of Wight 4-Wheel Coaches: these will look great with the Terrier, that bright wood looks great, too. 22:42 B1: nice to see it back in the range, but that price is just... 23:33 GWR Express Parcels Railcar: Very interesting livery, i can give it that. the windows at the front make it look cool too. 24:05 Tiger Locomotive: the era 1 stuff always looks cool, and now there are less shoddy coal wagons yay!!... oh wait i spoke too soon. 26:11 Liverpool & Manchester Coal Wagons: what did i just say. 26:33 Liverpool & Manchester 1st Class Rocket Coaches: the separate detail looks good, along with the yellow, although they arent the most accurate. 26:50 Liverpool & Manchester 2nd Class Rocket Coaches: interesting colors, with the brown body, gray roof, and pink curtains. overall looks good though. 27:27 Queen Adelaide's Saloon: the brown and yellow looks nice, and very interesting usage of the black coloring. 28:26 Liverpool & Manchester Royal Mail Coach: looks interesting with the yellow chassis, black body, and the red stripe. also the guy on top is a nice touch. 29:09 Loriot Y with Crane: the Loriot Y's look cool, and the crane is good for adding character to industrial layouts. 30:05 Rovex Open Wagon: once again, just like the Jinty, looks good... for some reason. 31:08 Hornby Office Building: this is honestly a really cool way to celebrate an anniversary. 32:00 Hornby Margate Factory: once again, an interesting way to celebrate an anniversary. remember guys these are my *personal opinions,* i'm not saying you are now forced to agree with me, i just wanted to write this for fun.

What is it wiht Hornby and these Beatles items? I just don't get it, does anybody buy this stuff?

Sad about Hattons. I hope you received my email with files for a weighbridge. I hope it make for a great new addition to your abilities and tools for measuring the quality of locomotive manufacture. Thanks as always Sam!

It’s nice to see the era 1 locos rolling stock and tenders available separately

Excellent video, Sam! 20:00 - When the first TV documentary was made soon after Simon took on the Hornby reigns, there was a scene showing empty shelves where the previous management had scrapped _hundreds_ of toolings - so, yes, it's sadly a very high liklihood indeed the original Nellie tooling is gone.🙁

Happy New Year to you and Chloe too Sam. Well, what can we say. From our understanding, the British OO market seems to expect a tsunami of novelties and exciting news in overdrive all the time. Would you rather not have good well thought-out quality and affordable models instead of continuous half-baked things, outdated without much progress and on-going problems? Perhaps H is doing a wise thing for taking a step back, making time to clean-up their house after years of a mess, and to spend time really required to develop a quality model, both in development and production. Introduction of TT was a mess as well with curved track not lining up, missing track pieces in the box and what not... Hopefully, they are on a path of coming back on track.

Happy New Year to you Sam!

A bit of background info for you Sam, The 040 tank engines that are being used to recreate the old triang locos are the tooling of an 040 Thomas that hornby produced in the 90s

happy new year to you and your"s sam.

Thank You for the Heads-UP ! Just Pre-Ordered a Locomotion, (Era 11 ?) from UK.

Finally, after all these years we’re getting a model of locomotion

While there was not much announced this year, I’m glad there are more Railroad models on the way, and I’m glad the B1 and L1 are back. Locomotion No. 1 and the new era 1 stock looks nice as well. I think the prices are a little too high for what most of this stuff is (that being said I think Tiger and Locomotion are semi-reasonably priced), but as sad as it is, I’ve come to expect that these days. Overall, I don’t think this range launch was too bad, especially considering that the new Black 5, streamlined B17, Deltic Prototype, etc, are yet to be released, and Hornby have said their will be more announcements later in the year, so I suppose that will make the lack of new announcements better. I also think in many ways this years announcements were quite smart in a lot of ways, as there was a heavy focus on Railroad steam, which is something we haven’t had much of in recent years, and with prices going up and according to Hattons, demographic changes, it does sound like we need more affordable models on the market. I know this all probably sounds a little soft on Hornby, but I have a feeling there will be a lot of negativity over this, and I feel that it’s important to try and keep things positive.

That LMR 2nd class and the L&B coach look really neat! Personally don’t do era 1, but they do look lovely. (though not sure about paying nearly £40 for one)

Airfix have had a few surprise releases in the last few months and it has been successful for them as it gets the sprue social influencers making videos and people going back to their retail website. The annual announcement was really a throwback to the past where trade catalogues had to be prepared and printed and retailers would raise purchase orders for delivery later in the year (the loss of a big customer in Hattons will impact them unless they can make up the difference elsewhere).

It is sad about Hatton's closing. I've only just this past year got into Model Railroading and ordered from them a few times.

Welcome back and Happy New Year Sam. Great vid as always. Just for the info of any of your viewers that may work for the Emergency Services or the NHS and who subscribe to the Blue Light Discount Card you can get 10% off Hornby products if you buy direct from them, which might soften the blow on a £200-300 loco 😎

Thanks for keeping us informed Sam, strange hearing about Hattons closing, very sad, here's to the staff and hope they all get jobs. I can can only speak as I find-they were 110% efficient. Regards Terry.

Hello Sam, The Midland clerestory coaches go way back, and look great. Same as the GWR clerestories. Hopefully there will be an upgrade on the detailing and paintwork.

I think Rovex loco is the best tank engine announced so far! Great video. I'm waiting impatiently for first video of other manufacturers model railway news for 2024. I'm would love to see EFE Rail Bulleid Booster Locomotive and Accurascale's new 16xx especially No. 5741 here on the channel. All I can say about this loco is "quack quack" ;)

Sam over here competing with Hornby in regards to Era 1 coal wagons 😂 Good on you mate

Very surprising you didn't even make a passing comment regarding Hattons who have served the hobby well for so many years.

Hi Sam, Happy New Year Just to say you didn’t mention the smoke generator fitted on the latest P2, which is probably part of the reason it’s so expensive! Best

I want to get a J36 from Hornby but literally every one they have available is on preorder and I’m worried it may not come and I will most definitely get that set with the Midland compound

Thanks for making this into a nice video - with not a lot of help from Hornby! What is 'Sam's Trains' going to announce for 2024? - particularly your exciting 3D printed range. May a suggest a model of the interesting mid-platform level crossing at Halesworth (featured recently on youtube). Look forward to your videos in the coming year, as always.

Slammin where u been !!! Happy New year

It’s definitely quite an underwhelming range this year to be honest, only thing that really caught my eye and I do intend to purchase is the GNER HST power cars as just last year I managed to pick up a rake of 6 mk3 coaches to go with 1 that I already own, overall good stream here Sam, some interesting items but overall quite underwhelming in my view. Not sure if you saw my comment on the earlier video but the 67 in the Platinum Jubilee livery is actually a real thing, it’s not really a cash grab from hornby or something that hornby just want to slap the jubilee livery on, the real locomotive which is numbered 67007 does carry this livery in service right now and as far as I know it still currently has that livery applied, a few other locomotives also have a platinum jubilee livery applied to them.

The Platinum Jubilee livery and your reaction made me laugh out loud. Wasn’t that a theme in one of your recent spoof April fools vids? Life imitating art, or did you know something we didn’t? 😂😂

Nice Selection of Locos Sam!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂

This is purely my opinion but items such as the Beatles 0-4-0 tank engine pack, the various new liveries of 0-6-0 locos and the Nellie, Polly , Connie locos etc are way to expensive, the Beatles pack is worth about £60, the 0-6-0’s £35 and the 0-4-0’s £25

Awesome video Sam's trains when I looked at this video earlier it said it was private

I paid 118 pounds for my brand new King Edward ll in 2022. Tell me the new price is inflation? Yeah right!

Thanks Sam. I like to see the concentration on Era 1. Do you know anything about the announcement from Hatton's today?

I have a Main Line GWR County class behind me and it looks fantastic, to be honest.

Hornby Marketing must be an interesting place to work. "Which loco is not selling? Let's change the decorations and colours on it with nostalgia themes". Costs money to make new dies for new locos, just repaint old ones.

I got two 'Royal Diamond' Class 67's for a very good price towards the end of last year...they're finicky but I took the front 'air dams/skirts' off the fronts of the bogies and they run far better without them. Those skirts seemed to be catching on points and going the wrong way. Nice loco's though but do need running in, for sure! An honest review and "that's what I waaaant!", what we all want, I dare say. All the best Sam. Cheers!

I'm really looking forward to Locomotion No.1. I'm also like the look of Mayflower, though the price is giving me doubts, I've pre-ordered it for now, but I might change my mind. The other thing that really stood out for me with the announcement of several Era 1 coaches in single packs, which will removed something that has been irritating me for a while with the Era 1 train and coach packs; namely ending up with doubles of the 1st Class coaches. I wanted the Queen Adelaide Coach Pack (R40357), but I already had Globe and Wellington from the R3810 Rocket Train Pack, which would have been effectively meant spending £108 on one coach. Now that they going to release Queen Adelaide's Coach separately I won't have that annoyance. Likewise the announcement of the single packs for the Royal Mail and 2nd Class Coaches means I can get a few more of them without ended up with loads of doubles. Somewhat disappointed that Hornby are only releasing one new Terrier this year, had hoped they'd do a few more in Improved Engine Green, though the IoWCR one looks nice. Edit: The 2nd Class Coach is technically not a new announcement since it part of the latest Rocket Train Pack R30090 which was announced last year(?).

Thanks!

Cant wait for the Wartime Black Hush hush! I’ve wanted the blue and green editions for ages but now the Wartime black is gonna take priority!

Awesome video today Sam I’m looking forward to that p2 and the hush hush in the black and have you heard about Hattons

Is the small 0-4-2 loco that you showed( the Lms loco) was it from the Thames Clyde express(made by bachmann)?

Sam keep telling the truth. Do you remember the glowing reviews of the UK car industry on what were generally ill made products? How about the US car industry - a few of whom went bump while others needed bail-outs? Keep telling Hornby its all great if you like but if you do they won't be around long. Tell the truth - these are average and mostly uninspiring models at over inflated prices - and they have the chance to take that information and do better.

haha - even your off days are good days Sam! I wonder, was i the drink, Hattons closing or Cloe making faces at you that kept breaking your concentration :) Either way, keep up the great work...

Ringo was a narrator for Thomas, so that could be why they put his face on a vaguely E2 Thomas type train.

Do you think they put the Beatles on that E2 to foreshadow the 40th anniversary of the Thomas and Friends TV series this year, considering that Thomas is an E2 and that Ringo originally narrated the show?

Ah locomotion No. 1! A fine addition to my collection

Platinum Jubilee was in 2022 and thee real loco still carried that livery in January 2024, so really very much up-to-date there.

The beatles stuff is as naff as the coke sruff. However people evidently do buy it, else they wouldnt keep churnng it out

Hatton's leaving us is absolutely heartbreaking. 95% of my entire collection I have ordered from them when I got back into the hobby 2 years ago. I will soon buy my last items from them when pay day comes around. Truly a shame because their service, prices and pre-owned selection is absolutely amazing. For me, the range launch is decent. I'm still waiting for the J36 in BR Apple green which is annoying. The County Class train pack and the B1 Mayflower as preserved are probably ones I will pick up. If I wouldn't have the Bachmann Compound the Midland one from Hornby would be a must for me. A shame the coaches aren't available seperately. They would go perfectly with my fleet. The B1 I want because it's a beautiful preserved loco and it hasn't been available in a few years. I was excited for your news, Sam 👍 first video of 2024

man you got the cooliest floor layout and train collection

Let’s face it Bachmann’s offering at the end of 23 was even less enthralling.

I really like the Rovex livery I hope they do a few locos and rolling stock in it.

Will you be doing a video on hattons closing down

That Beatles Thomas feels like one big joke on the fact that Ringo did the TTTE narration XD

Hattons always provided the best of service and pricing with Management and staff always going that extra mile in customer service. Feeling as if I am loosing a good friend.

I'd have thought they'd have opted for the silver jubilee livery for the dublo a4 considering we've just had 2 BR Green locos for the great gathering collection

Sam, i have an HM2000 controller. How can i check the power output and what should it be. Many Thanks. Gerry

Anyone else notice the identity change on the Mayflower announcement? It was originally shown as 61379 but now it is to be the preserved version (61306) - I'm doubting that 61379 ever carried British Railways apple green as it was built in 1951. 61306 was a 1948 built loco and was delivered in apple green though it didn't become 'Mayflower' until it was preserved.

Sam, please, on your Monday 15 January model train news would you address what is happening with Hatton's. Cheers.

I'm still waiting for the 0-4-0ST 'Lady Edith' which I ordered in 2019 - still not produced yet... I'm not going to order anything else in advance until I get this!

I love era one equipment. More please.

There was a definitely a ‘Lord Westwood’ style 0-4-0 as I have one ( I think, without checking, that it was in the 1974 catalogue). You are quite right - nice idea but would be far better with the original tooling. They did use it to make some push along ‘toy’ trains in the 1980s so it was around until at least then.

Nothing added this year makes me think that OO is for me. Fingers crossed that the planned TT120 releases get my juices running.

That Beatles loco is Hornbys equivalent of taking an existing product and putting a clock in it.

Bring back production back to the UK and maybe they would have more to announce

10:45 This actually does make a bit of sense, considering that Ringo Starr was the first narrator for Thomas & Friends...

nice one!

37:11 someone at Hornby is definitely a prog rock fan. There have been locos/ wagons named after various members of Rush (Lee, Lifeson & Peart) and King Crimson (Fripp). There might be a few more I haven’t spotted….!

*YEEEESSSS!!!* *I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A LOCOMOTION NO.1 FOR YEARS!!!!* I only hope Planet No.9 follows soon! That is my favourite of the early era locos

Cool love the l1

So cool video sam

Something seems oddly appropriate about Ringo Starr's face on the side of an E2. 😜

I guess you hadn’t watched the Q & A yet. They had a running sample of Locomotion in that video

The Locomotion No. 1 looks neat. Nice to see another era 1 locomotive. Hope to see more era 1 in the future.

hi Sam...will you do a video about Hattons close down...or have you already said something about it...and the impact on the british modellers scene....

Hi Sam. Hope good Christmas plus a new year. Hornby 2024 range. My front. Hornby 2024 range is poor but with it being caught up year all trains from 2020 to 2023 I hope do come out. I hope the Hornby J36 I have on order (A.ROD Livery 5662 Back in 2020 or 2021 B.65330 Limited Edition In British railway green letting, J36 Class.) (And R30137 BR, Class B17/5, and 61670 'City of London' back in 2023 All come out.) Can't wait to see Suprise Announcements throughout the year. Hope to get this year. Things I like in this year's range got to be the Era1 coaches as they will go great with my Titfield Thunderbolt train. Good now don't need to buy the two rocket packs at £220 just to get the L&MR, Royal Mail Coach and L&MR, 2nd Class Coach want only around £45. Meaning I'm saving £350. looking at Tiger as now just get the tiger not with the stupid coal wagon just rocket tender paint brown with bit wood to cover up way the men would be putting coal into the train. To get tiger pack looking around £230 train being around £130 saved £100. Hornby Plase Look at this. I was hoping this year four the T3 563 in LSWR green it at Swanage now. Or Y14 in GER blue 564 at the North Norfolk railway. New SR Z class in SR or BR. 8f in LMS Red or Br red it has Great Central Railway. Hornby Bad part of Hornby Year 2024 range. I think the Beatles range is just a waste of money as most younger people are not into Beatles music. Train and wagon pick are just bad too high on the money and super old tools. The only made sense was class 373 as one did have it back in 1999. The 70th Anniversary loco is just bad the same as the Beatles not even the right loco. I think Thompson is overpriced at £179.00 as I got one last year at a great election train show got one at £80 do like British Railway letting in green but at that price no. Hornby Good part of Hornby Year 2024 range. But do things good choose of Railroad as it helps get younger people and people nota lot money on them. But do things both Railroad packs are at £180.00 should come down to £140 and there should be three coaches in a pack not two. Do wish there did the coaches come with MR pack separately. Nice to see more class 67 livers as never got GBRF, or Queen one based on real life. Help to give people who like more modern fright train bigger choice to pick more train. I like steam train more but good to see class 34hst in GNER with 2022 tools as give people change like early Privatisation 1996-2008 some things to run. Do like the look of Derelict Farm Building looks good on my farm.

I think keeping it simple and unambitious (aside from Locomotion No. 1- pretty cool!) is a very, very smart move. Hornby knows people are hurting from cost of living/inflation, the secondhand market is hurting, and they just lost a major distributor. Hornby may not be introducing much new, and sacrificing another year of new product launches to build upon TT and catch up but I don't see it as a disappointment. A promising strategy to hit back harder next year!

That Beatles locomotive has such a strange print to choose for the Fab Four?!

How many more 0-4-0's on that similar/same frame? It seems like its that in whatever livery of the day or pay through the nose if you want something else.

Locomotion No. 1 in OO? Check out Newman Miniatures, managed to toss a 3D printable Locomotion together in N scale! Certainly interested to see what Hornby will bring to the table with this Era 1 locomotive

12:34 You hit the nail on the head Sam, bang on target &c. Despite the head of the family, the chief squirrel if you will, having left the nest a while ago now, Hornby is still pumping out engagingly counterfactual press releases. It would be endearingly nuts if Hornby didn't have a place in most of our hearts from childhood. It's still trying to shoot itself in the paws. It's somehow still going too!

Welp, if you're going to splurge 300+ quid on a die cast model then at least an A4 is a solid choice (and Silver King a change from Mallard).

10:58 because of Ringo Starr being the old narrator for Thomas and friends

47522 in railroad plus looks good!

Big era 1 fan can’t wait for the new model 🤩

Hi Sam , this is Joshua from Sri Lanka and I'm nine years old .one of these locos and my favourite hornby model train is the hornby thomas and friends thomas with annie and clarabel train set.

So not disappointed as i didn't expect much. Like the Cork Head Terrier, but yeah fifty quid too much. Just ordered the Class 47... love a dirty diesel 😂

The prices for the railways range models are atrociously high 🙁

put some carriges behind the L1 and tells me it runs ok, in my opinion it requiresa spring loaded rear bogie

You may already know this but there is to be "No more Warley National Model Railway exhibitions !". With Hattons going I wonder if this is the start of a change in the hobby.

I remember buying a little blue 0-4-0 for £11 brand new in the 90s

That 0-6-0 with carriages looks like my first train set over 50 years ago.