Mainline Jubilee Class "Orion" and "Leander": Repair and Service Requests 

Two lovely old girls, well done bringing them back to life 👍

Great job! The cover photo brought back a memory from the early 60s. I was at grammar school in Coventry when we heard that 2 Jubilees were bringing in specials to see the new cathedral, so we missed school dinner and bunked off to Coventry station to see Leander and Orion, side by side in platforms 1 and 2 at the head of their specials. We were delighted! Just wish we had mobile phones with cameras back then. Happy days!

Excellent again. PO Box for service centre, hope it doesn’t take over. Fantastic for you, you show so much enjoyment in what you do, find and bring back to life; in some occasions. Real joy to watch as each challenge it met and over come. 👍

Another Great Repair. These old Mainline Jubilees may have ropy motors but the detail for their time in ready to run was outstanding and still hold up well today.

Couple of “Lookers”there Bill, glad you got the Result! Noise wise they’ve got a charm about them but maybe not for too long a Session 😆🚂🥇

Hi mate love seeing old forgotten locos being given a new life again 👍super glue wise buy a miter bond pack from screwfix glue + a spray activator £6 ish . All the best

I'm glad you find it fun.! Those Mainline locos are great when they're working. But you have inspired me to have a go at my dodgy Lima Class 52 as per your video ..thanks for the tips..I shall be shopping..

Until your J72 video I’d never seen anyone take one of these split chassis apart . Good stuff . I’ve got a Leander , never a great runner but looks good , I’ll give her a wee service .

Great job you did there :) Fully understandable about the address. Sadly we live in scary times about information on the internet. Well said.

Really enjoy watching your channel. It's so informative, and it's increasing my confidence to give it a go myself once I've got all the bit's I need. Here's hoping for many more!

Well done video on 2 of my favourite Mainline Jubilees,i have both of them.I will be giving them both a similar service.Thank you Bill.

Well done bill, I've never worked on a split chassis engine looks a bit scary, looking at the way you tackle these problems you have obviously a very curious mind and just have to find out how things work. Your doing a fantastic job with these locomotives the owner must delighted. Fully agree with you about setting up a drop box to post these items you must be really careful while the fast majority of people are fine and honest you will get the scammer or just nasty person and will cause real upsets. One person said about a local model shop, one shop near us is a small post office/store, and he's used by Hermes the courier as a drop off and pickup, food for thought. Take care enjoying following. Eddy xx

Another brilliant piece, really want a jubilee now 🙄 thank you for sharing

Interesting video again, thanks. The host on another channel I follow uses his local model shop as a post box for him. You get a reliable post box, they get a bit of advertising so It might work for you both.

Great job Bill....two great looking locos..nicely detailed for that era..the noise would not bother me at all as I grew up with the locos of the 60s and 70s on my Dads layout!....interesting to hear you mention superglue and baking soda....I use it to fix guitar nut slots for people....works a treat!

Great video. I love resurrecting Mainline locos. As for the noise, I'm sure those two sounded like they had the steam sound fitted. It might just be my ears playing tricks on me but I'm sure there was a 'chuff-chuff' noise when you ran them!

Just got the Jubilee Leander off ebay as a none runner and drive gear may be stripped in places as well as motor not working so really interested to whatch this video again so can take apart ... really love your videos Bill very helpful...

Excellent work - you caught me in the middle of watching your triang class 37 video, as mine has completely failed on me - ive tried cleaning the wheels and pickups but in all honesty little gunk came off them. I digress - loving all these videos

Nice one Bill, that Leander is particularly pretty.

Some of the noise is the tender locating pin rattling in the locator slot under the cab. Some black heat shrink, 3mm or so placed over the peg will reduce the chattering noise.

What amazes me is how you remember where all the screws and bits and bobs go,i think i would have to take pics! Well done though i am impressed.

Nice fix 👍🏻

My Mainline Leander just sits on a bit of old track in my display case, along with some of my EFE and other 1.76th scale 'local' buses.

You could arrange for locomotives needing repair to sent care of a Post Office not far from where you live. Cheers Greg

Hey Bill. Love the videos and they have proved very helpful in my workshop.. Can I ask what the contact cleaner is. WD40 maybe?

Hi Bill. Well done! What a collection of abused locomotives! I don’t know why, but none of the locos crawl slowly, maybe it is something to do with the controller. They seem to jump into a sprint. I have all sorts of models and most of them will accelerate smoothly from a crawl to running speed.

Mainline Jubilee Class "Orion" I have one, she works but honestly a little bit nervous to run her these days.. fear she will die on her way around the track.

Hi Bill i really enjoy watching your video's they are so informative, just a quick question what make of tweezers do you use please as they seem really good when you use them, cheers Paul

Just a suggestion but would your local hobby shop allow you to use them as a postal drop? Especially if you give them a plug on your channel? I believe a couple of other RU-vidrs have done something along these lines such as Chadwick.

I was wondering how people knew how & where to contact you. Hope you are able to set up a PO Box system, as it would be really useful to have access to a repair service from someone like yourself who clearly derives a lot of pleasure from resurrecting these old locos, not to mention earning you a few pounds to reinvest in your railway, have to watch out mind as it may start taking over your life. As you say you can't be too careful these days in divulging your address & contact details to all & sundry

Leander is sertently a evil locomotive Just ask Dave ;) Dark DJ productions reference

I wil lnot service my Mainline jubilee class, as it gives the loco a chuffing sound. Its one of my favourit engines due to that "problem".

It's a shame Mainline went down that split chassis route as their models where really nicely detailed and looked great. Is it possible those screws that met in the middle were the wrong ones so too long.

Sir, You realy could do with some sound modules.

Another great upload, and interesting too. I have an LMS fowler needing attention, would like your help, my email is in my description, when you set up a mailing address, count me in. Thanks and all the best. Brian @ the Angels