Hornby LNER Raven Class Q6 | Unboxing & Review 

Hey Sam, I got this very same one for £99, inclusive weathering by Rails. So I'm 100% with you concerning the price. Greetings from Belgium

Hey sam, nice review but… my grandpa died. Thank you for making me happy for making content

Ooh I loved these updates of the older reviews! The originals are great, but it's so fun to see the insights you have from all the experience of reviewing locos for so long!

I really enjoy your reviews Sam, they are fair and very watchable.

Thanks Sam, your videos are helping to get me through a hard time in my life, so thanks

Excellent motor and electrics coverage and the standards that you suggest are well researched and presented. I fully agree this design of motor should be a standard.

Beautiful locomotive Sam, good product from Hornby there… I think this will look fabulous on your layout… Great video, stay safe and take care 😀👍👋

Hi Sam: Love your rake of owner wagons, a brilliant idea and a very good way to improve the look and attention grabbing ability of a layout. One of the ways that you can compensate for the depreciation caused by the scaling down of items.

Beautiful looking loco this, it’s quirky appearance always reminds me of the Q1. Thanks for the review Sam. Nothing fell off (again).

Hi Sam: You are doing some good reviews on LNER, Great Central Railway, Great Northern Railway and Great Eastern locomotives. This is certainly stimulating and improving my knowledge of their locomotives, enjoying these immensely. Thanks.

Great review and article great locomotives dave keep them coming sam love watching your videos best channel on u tube dsve

You should do the B17 again but in LNER livery. I think at Kernow they are only like £100, which seems like a bargain! I just got my MTH big boy in the mail today, it is so good! Too bad MTH put a decoder from the 15th century in it!

Ooh, a Q4! An interesting one, in my opinion! I really like your videos btw, keep up the good work!

Nice to see a wonderful LNER freight engine. Will consider this for my collection. On another note, I recently got an LNER loco myself. The Hormby J15. Have yet to run it, but looks great.

Just bought mine for 82.50 (VAT exempt) from Hattons. Most pleased. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.

I feel like I've been called out... 😅 But I still do stand behind my original comment, my recent Hornby engines have had their capacitors horribly bodged against the motor, one was even soldered so it blocked the DCC socket the model came with. If this is so hard to believe I can email pictures for proof! Another great review though, cheers!

Excellent review. I like to think that Bachmann are catching up with the proper mechanisms, although Hornby have been making excellent mechanisms for at least a decade!

Great video sam, these recently went on sale by Hattons for 141 quid and I had to buy thanks to your review.

The Q6 is a fantastic locomotive, and the way the parts of the model break down suggests that other options were designed in from the start. The only problem however, is the boiler; it's not suitable for any pre-1946 loco, but I wouldn't be surprised if the earlier boiler had been at least designed if not tooled yet. It's not a massive difference, but the boiler bands need to be spaced differently and the dome moving. The cab has the vacuum control gear inside, which only the preserved loco has fitted, but that's easy enough to remove too. Hornby did well to tool a few different tenders for the Q6, which would also be useful behind a few other NER locos too! I'd love to see the preserved example produced, though that would need a new tender, so it's quite unlikely I suspect. Always nice to see a proper loco appear on your channel! Keep it up!

Awesome video today Sam beautiful locomotive I will be getting one of these

Just a fun fact I'd like to throw out. The real loco was used in the Downton Abbey movie, based on the TV series which also used the SECR C Class

Yay! More LNER! :D

Ooh another LNER loco, excellent review as ever. I always love LNER locos although I don't know why

Awesome video sam

Quite a nice looking locomotive there Managed to get hold of a bachmann class 70 today second hand it runs really well and is in good condition.

Id love to see a video where you show us creative ways to add weight to locomotives. You might appreciate the improvements to some of your fleet too! Thanks for another great review :)

just picked one up for £83 - looks to be in very good condition so fingers crossed ... Made my choice after watching your review. Thanks for doing them it really does help when making up my mind about whether to buy or not.

Hi sam hornby has done it again. I like how hornby put the pcb in the tender, the tender has more space inside than the loco. I like the raven. Nice and infomative video as always. Keep up the work . 👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪

This was in the 2016 Catalog I love these guys!

Great video sam

It is a nice loco. I am sure you have heard the 10% hike in Hornby prices.

Hey Sam. This video cheared me up today I was crying b because my expensive castle class fell of my layout and the bogie fell of the driver fell out the tender broke and more. Thanks

i bought one right after it was introduced at a similar price to what you paid....i'm glad i did....and as i haven't opened it up to see the mechanism, well it's great to know it has it....so....good one....:-)...one has to be lucky sometimes......:-)

In the US this 0-8-0 wheel arrangement was used for heavy-duty switchers and would not have been used for mainline freight. I guess it is a testiment to British railway track quality that it could be used on the mainlines there without a pilot truck (or a cow catcher, either).

All wheels have pick ups and round bearings you listening Bachmann

I'm glad I bought mine when I did. I paid £115 brand new at the time (2019), so nowhere near that eye watering 160 quid. Wish I had one in NER livery, and considering how large their network was it's a shame they're so under-represented. Still, I'm looking forward to the G5 0-4-4T which funnily enough is being made by Bachmann for TMC. Looks like they're not far off being ready, so I've pre-ordered mine. PS/ Love to see a review of a Fleischmann loco one day. I was sure I saw a BR80 on Sam's layout once, unless I'm just imagining things!

Hi Sam: Manufacturers need to appreciate the fact that A STANDARD is a level you do NOT go below. It is something that you are not attempting to achieve, this is then backed and certified by your quality control department. Then you do not worry about returns or a depreciation of reputation.

The last comment says it all. Hauling plenty of trucks in your presentation, but certainly for that money, despite being a slightly older Hornby locomotive, I would have expected more. It's often approached 'the shortlist' when I'm in a 'what's interesting that's for sale' mood, but has never made it any further than a thought. Al.

This locomotive reminds me of the G2A and the Heljin Tango. I would definitely try to buy one.

Reminds me of the Heljan Tango to some extent 👌 another great video!!

That’s a unique looking engine! Also I have a question: have you thought of reviewing the Bachmann red Rosie?

Oh man the 0-8-0s are seriously up there with my favorites

I watched your video on the Hudson, that's one of my favorite locomotives, since I watched a film that was made by the New York Central that talked about them, it was one thing that got me into trains, how did you get interested in trains and model railroading in particular

a beauty !! - well done Hornby

The Q6 is one of my favorite locos

This is going to look great on my new layout

I remember you reviewed this locomotive back in 2017 I believe and this was the first time seeing an 0-8-0 steam locomotive. Of course we’re familiar with 0-4-0’s and 0-6-0’s, but not 0-8-0’s. This one looks interesting tho with that wheel configuration. Another 0-8-0 I also remember is the G2A. Not GTA BTW. That one is also pretty cool! 👍👍👍

Hi Sam love your vids

You make amazing content 😊😊😊🤩🤩

Hey Sam watching this video reminded me of a trick I do with my locos that have Square bearing. If you put some grease on the bearings it should extend the life of those Bachman locos and improve the performance all together. Anyway love your videos and keep up the good work

Thanks for the awesome content, Sam! One question - what's typically the voltage on the rails when locomotives start to crawl?

I think I might go into liquidation if i bought one. Loved the video Sam thank you. 🐖🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🚄🚅

I have this model and I like it. I bought it to turn into a Q5 RoD. They went to war and came back grey by all accounts

I remember buying a kit cast in metal of a Q6 in the late 1970's, it was jolly expensive and i had to build it! But the Q6 was the regular goods loco on my local line in the north east of England, so i had to have it. So i am pleased to see a 'mainstream' (or should that be mainSTEAM"?) model of it.

Beautiful model Sam! Very successful engines since they ran for 54 years! We're lucky to have a preserved example! I always say as long as at least one example is preserved, we should all be happy!

Noice Loco sam!

Just picked one of these up for 97.50. Looking forward to it on the layout

Hattons now selling these at £114, reduced from £194. As I've found myself buying many LNER passenger locos and carriages, thought it about time I had a freight one. This price at Feb 2022 can now be considered cheap for a tender loco.

Hey Sam's train because I am really sure it as alway loved a character hornby black the long train.

Sam destroys Bachmann defenders with facts and logic

I love the mechanism of this, shame the detail is a little lacking. But prototypically of Hornby I suppose. Think I would definitely be buying one sometime in the future. Great vid Sam, thanks :D

Hi Sam hope your ok I like the look of these I might look around and get one

For future reference, the unshaded, flat yellow version of the LNER lettering and cabside numbers is how the LNER applied it after WWII. Hornby has therefore modelled this locomotive in the condition in which it ran between 1945-48.

You make amazing videos

That loco looks quite similar to the german BR 55, which i absolutely love. They both look very nice i think.

Ooo this is unique. I also had a funny idea, for a 100k special you could review a real life engine lol Thank you

Your railway really is looking Bigger than ever before. maybe you should give your railway a name.

Oof the shade, Bachmann indeed should be taking notes :D As you said for a lower price this model would be perfect, a bit like the j15. Great review Sam 👍

Hi Sam. Hsve looked at this review again. As I write, Hattons have this in BR black with early crest for £99.00 (the LNER livery model, also available, is £159.00). So, happily, at the moment you can have a superb running model with excellent mechanism for a far lower price. Best, Pete.

This man is living the dream he literally gets to mess around with model trains all day and gets payed for it now that's awesome

a little bit late on commetning sam lol oh well lovly loco none the less i wish there could be some preserved thx ben :)

Hi Sam. Another great and honest review. I've got four of these locos and a bit of extra weight and weathering works wonders. Question; what is the slope of Gordon's Hill so we can judge locos pulling power up it a bit better?

Great review sam, price is a bit iffy but loco itself is very nice especially that mechanism 👍

Speaking of that briefly mentioned 94XX, please do have a look at the Rapido 16XX. You'll thoroughly enjoy that :D

Great video sam not that big of north eastern loco fan but this loco looks great

Wait didn’t you already do a review of this one? Either way, I just got one of these. Haven’t had the chance to run her yet, but it looks stunning!

28:54 Bullman, why's that brake van hobbling? Add some metal tool boxes to the running board... more weight, then. John BC, Canada

I love this engine so much and I don’t know why

Question Sam can you Dcc hardwire a Britania class that is fitted with the hornby single wire smoke box if so where on a hornby decoder do you connect it to or should i wire it pre decoder and just fit a resistor to the smoke wire .

I was going to ask you to re-review the G2a, but I watched your old video and now might have already bought one....

I agree about the price but it is a great model and I suspect it will last a long, long time with that mechanism. Probably worth it for that. Thanks again Sam!

Hello again sam!

love ur videos Rhys Thompson

Despite it's relatively few shortfalls Sam, this is an indication of what can be achieved...Bob

I believe that the North Eastern Railway painted their T2 Class 0-8-0 locos in lined black in everyday service. The ornate livery was only applied for works photos, taken opposite Jarrow Slake on the South bank of the Tyne.

That was pulling a sizeable rake of wagons Sam. It's not that bad really. It's a good puller. Best Pete.

Great video! Do you know any web page where I can buy British steam Locos? I'm from Colombia, so I'd be nice if they ship worldwide

I hope we can get a re-review of another nelpg loco by Hornby, the rather lovely K1 🙂

It’s a lovely looking thing. I think £120-140 would be a bit more of a realistic RRP in my opinion though. I think the die cast running plate would really improve it

Sam, Hattons has a version of this loco on sale for 99 pounds now. Also, the loco on sale seems to be a more modern version than yours, since one of the features a die-cast chassis and other features yours seems to miss. Anyone better grab this one before it goes out of stock

I love the Q6’s

So cool video

How do you control each train independently

Been in production so long and no one proof read the description on the back of the box (second paragraph about the brakes.. bother engine and tender.. pretty sure they meant both engine and tender) all plastic for that price is pushing it even if it is a good mechanism. I’d be tempted to add some lead weight in the loco and tender to give it some heft.

I do like the LNER And LBSCR class locomotives

Sam, love your videos. Question for you, which steam engine trainset is the best in the price range from £150-£250? Im looking for quality more metal than plastic, and decent controler? theres so much i'm a bit lost.

Q6 is owned by NELPEG and is based at NYMR along with the J27 which is also owned by NELPEG.

HI Sam are you going to be getting the new Hornby W1 in any of its styles? i'd love to see that on your layout!

What is cogging? It seems to get mentioned regularly.

So what function does the flywheel perform?