HORNBY Locomotives in Action with Tony Wright 

Thank you Tony, a wonderful insight into our rich railway heritage and a time now long lost, a super collection set into a fabulous scene.

Great locos, but some of them sounded like they were running underwater...🤔

What a amazing railway wish i had somthing like that

19:24 Tony raises a very good point here, D16's with decorative valances? Yes please! Would love to see 62618 in Apple green with BR early crest!

A wonderful airy layout and a joy to see !

This is one of the finest ECML layouts I've seen. The trackwork is sublime. In fact it cannot be faulted. My only minor criticism would be the sound, which seems to have an "underwater" quality to it which is somewhat unrailwaylike. Possibly down to the accoustic qualities of your dedicated railway room, of which I am inordinately jealous!

Wow, quite a layout, some of the best track I’ve ever seen on a model railroad.

Great praise from Tony Wright on the vast improvements to Hornby quality and finish. I concur with his praise especially on the recent Merchant Navy and Princess locomotives. I like his comment on the nearby railway as being 12inches to a foot gauge!

Lovely layout

What a joy to watch and the back story provided by Tony. Thank you.

Realy nice work

A superb and evocative (for me) depiction of the sort of trains seen on the ECML in the 1950s - using ready to run locos from Hornby. Congratulations to Hornby for making these models available - some of my favourite main line locomotive classes depicted here and to Tony for h.is work on bringing them to life with some subtle changes. Just one comment for Tony - when train are leaving the double track at Little Bytham Junc - please observe the speed limit over the crossover!

I've always felt like the LNER and its' pre-Grouping constituents have been long under-served by the big manufacturers, so it's nice seeing it getting a bit of love.

Thank you Tony!

Thank you Tony and Hornby.

Great layout and very interesting video! Only qualm was the audio quality, sounded like it was filmed underwater 90% of the video (trains running not talking)

This is totally amazing .the vision of how you wanted the trains to look ,run and Finnish weathering to set them apart .love it Chris x

Superb layout and locos Tony, thanks for sharing

What can I say Tony. you have a model railway that will inspire many to build to there own. myself included. the work you have done to RTR Hornby loco's. even though only very slightly in most cases enhances them even more. thank you again for sharing your model railway.........best regards Tony

Top notch stuff ! Thank you.

i wish you guys would bring back the live steam's they're the most fun i've ever had with model railways and i havent even got to run mine on a layout yet

Great to see you presenting again Tony - you have a unique and engaging style. One question if I may? I notice in many of your comments in various places that you often replace the bogie wheels on Hornby locos - why is this? If they are so poor why doesn’t Hornby do something about them?

Excellent, and hi from Oxford

Yes d16 with decorated valances yes please Great video with fantastic information too Great insight too Keep safe arp

I will say the diecast Dapol Black Label is the current best RTR model of an A4. A mate has the latest Hornby TTS one plus additional smoke & lighting, so we ran them together on his large DCC layout. The Dapol blew the Hornby one into the weeds on all fronts, running quality, smoke, sound and sheer presence, as diecast locos are apt to do. I do have the Hornby Dublo diecast Duchess of Atholl with sound and that like the Dapol also has real presence and is superb.

Excellent video again Tony. Simon Kohler has, with his team, done some great work. When will Hornby turn their hand to 7mm RTR, there's still room for additional steam outline in 7mm RTR. I really enjoyed the Chris Walsh and Tony Wright et al dvd series too - superb.

Found this video by chance. Stunning sights and amazingly realistic locos and everything else. What happened with the sound? I found it hard to watch because of it.

The 2Ps are an Airfix design although I've been told that Airfix went bust before they could release them. I've got 2 in S&DJR Prussian Blue and they're lovely runners.

Hi, Loved all these Hornby loco's all running so well as do most of mine but I was surprised to see the Thompson L1 running without some attention to the front bogie as we all know it is not the best mounting method by far and tends to throw it off the rails at anytime but as we all do we run her backwards as in this where they always runs perfectly, but must say a very nice and enjoyable to watch video. Cheers Robert.

Hi Tony enjoyed your video totally agree about the ornate vallance D16 maybe as 62613 late crest last in service!! and how about a Buckjumper ( J67/J69) it would be sutch a useful and popular model Pretty Please Mr Koehler

Very nice layout and models trains. Beautiful work! One thing that I find interesting is that HO/OO gauge track is 16.5 mm, while EM gauge is 18 mm, a difference of only 1.5 mm. Small, but definitely measurable.

On Retford, the Queen of Scots set is entirely Hornby Pullman Cars regauged to EM and with the roofs repainted and some minor detailing such as carriage boards added. The set being hauled by the Britannia on Retford includes eight Hornby carriages out of the eleven in the formation. Only the second, third and fifth carriages are not Hornby. The Tees-Tyne Pullman's headboard has gone crooked. The engine on the Tees-Tyne Pullman, 60005 Sir Charles Newton, is a Hornby A4 with, I believe, new frames and mechanism.

I remember watching Tony's video of the hornby P2 vs a DJH A2/2 when the P2s were new. I'm afraid I've bought a DJH A2/2, factory made, and it is about 50% more powerful than my railroad P2. I need an O1 and an L1, and probably a super detailed A3 too. I need to fix my bachmann B1 at some point, since I DCC fitted it and then it suddenly packed in (decoder is fine).

Great video. Minor quibble, 2618 should have decorative valence. Straight valence is correct for 2614.

My what a wonderful layout. Superb modelling and how have you achieved the silent running? Mine is noisy with track, over cork on ply board and with track screwed down

I'll have to try not to get this confused with Tony North Eastern, who's a friend of mine on RU-vid. Thankfully, your layout is different to his, so I can easily tell the two apart. Nice collection, you have more steamies than me. You've gone for the weathered Main Line look, I've gone for the pristine preserved railway look. It's good that we're different in this respect. If we were all the same, life would be boring. Happy modelling, my good fellow.

It’s a great video no blah blah tech specs just some enjoyable operations

Hi Could you please answer 2 questions for me? Are the loco to tender couplings on the short setting? What radius are the curves? Beautiful layout with great stock that I admire from afar. Regards Paul from Zillmere Australia

Where do you get your bogie wheels for the A3s and A4s

Vcs deveria ter um representante no Brasil dos modelos ferroviarios de vcs E muito DIFICEL conseguir os ferromodelos hornby no Brasil

Hey hornby when are you gonna bring back the R315 e2 class L.B.S.C 100 train?

Are they "OO" scale ?

Not a crappy Hornby coupling in sight...

Hello

Hello Tony, I am somewhat intrigued by the fact that you choose to re-number many of the locomotives featured in this presentation. I would be interested in your reasoning Cheers Greg

Odd to say 'RTR' when it takes no longer to say 'ready to run'.

Why did you change the BR7, 70024, smoke deflectors, but not its ridiculous chimney with the totally over scale depth lip? This is particularly mystifying when you did change the perfectly good one on the Bongo.

Interesting information Tony but I would like to see more of the Locomotives running and less info other than that I thoroughly enjoyed watching the video. I apologise to all of the other viewers so feel free to dislike this comment but please don't be too harsh because it will cause problems not just with me but with RU-vid so Be careful on what you write in your comment as it may be blocked by Me or RU-vid.

Is Hornby still using those CRAZY "flangeless" rear (bogey?) on their Pacific type locomotives? Never could deal with that idea of having wheels "hover" off of the track in curves! I have three A4'S that I've had to replace the rear wheels with flanged wheels. Obviously, my curves don't require "floating wheels"! I would definitely rather have a pivoting truck...I simply widened the rear truck on the inside to allow for a little more side to side...I really wish Hornby would do away with the flangeless idea...I'm thinking hard about the upcoming "Hush Hush" locomotive, and it has TWO pairs of trailing wheels to swing out off the rails! 😡 It would REALLY BE NICE if Hornby would include a set of flanged wheels with the "Hush Hush"! (Hint Hint)

Put your hands in your pockets

12" to the foot ... nice use of language

Sorry, but for me that layout is just so boring. Straight lines from one end to the other, the train comes into view and 10-20 seconds later it's gone again. The scenic setting is wonderful - as are the locos, carriages and wagons - but as regards 'play value' it gets 0/10. All that work detailing and weathering for a few seconds viewing, is it worth it ? Why bother changing the bogie wheels when you can't see them when they're turning ? It is just a 'dead' layout there's no atmosphere, not a sound other than the wheels on the track, but even there's no 'clickety-clack' just a constant 'shoosh'. A switch to DCC Sound would greatly improve matters. But as it is, a basic Hornby Trackmat layout is more interesting than this.