Your first Premiere was lots of fun Sam! Hornby’s work on that Peckett definitely payed off! Couplings and Express points are what seem to rank this engine down for me but it’s still an excellent model! Can’t wait to see the video on that little Blue 0-4-0! Well Done Sam! James :)
im excited that your finally reviewing this loco i bought one a few years ago and i was just amazed by it and it is without a single doubt my favorite hornby loco ever
@@SamsTrains hey sam from experience of my peckett i left it to crawl on my layout took half an hour to make a full lap of a 8x4 layout the gearing is beautiful
Mine arrived on Saturday, I went for the same version, and pre-ordered it ages ago too. Great minds. That weight is astonishing, I’m seriously impressed with it. You’re right, we’ve been seriously spoilt this year.
Welcome to the Peckett club where one of them just isn't enough! Can't believe I woke up at 4.30am on a Sunday morning to watch the premiere! Was worth it though. Great review as always Sam
An incredible ready to run model from Hornby Sam...Models that are as good as this would be just a pipe dream not that many years ago, so hats off to Hornby for such an achievement.
Even Kit built locos in the 70's weren't to this quality Sam. A scratch built loco built by one of the top builders would possible come near to it, but unlikely to surpass it...Bob
Good review Sam, I'm surprised that Hatton's engines got topped. That certainly looks like a nice model, hopefully I can get one someday. Also, I like the idea of the premiere videos, wish I could've caught this one live, maybe next time. :)
Thanks Patrick - me too, very surprised - though not by much mind you! This was just a test run on the permiere - I hope to do at least one more before making a decision on using them every week! :D Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Wow!!!!!! Little Engine BIG impression!!!! I will say I have a huge soft spot for this and the Hatton’s 0-4-0!!!! They are both such beautiful engines :)
Hello Sam, I've been back in the UK nearly a week now. I must say, you're very lucky to get your hands on getting the brand new Hornby Peckett W4 Saddle Tank Engine. The detail running performance and strength is fantastic, despite she stalled on the points, but after all, she needs running in, but she's still a fantastic model. I hope to get my hands on a Hornby Peckett W4 Saddle Tank very soon. 10/10 & 5 Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Kind regards Jordan 😉
Hi Sam I regret reviewing my W4 when I did because it was just as the Hattons Andrew Barclays were being announced (or at the least with pictures) so when I did the 'marketplace' within my review I had to compare it with a Class D and a Pug (granted an early 2000s release). Though I did compare them in my review of the Andrew Barclay..... It was so close to say the least! Nice to see a review of this second batch! Thanks Olly
Ahh I see what you mean Olly - although this would have looked even better next to the pugs etc, haha! The Andrew Barclay is much closer to this in terms of quality and detail! Thanks for watching - Sam :)
@@SamsTrains It did I did try to compare the W4 and Andrew Barclay in the Andrew Barclay review and they were very close at the end of the day. To be fair I think most who have one, want the other because of the layouts they inspire (like my own for example) Still interesting to compare Cheers OR
Paint detail on the wheels and those squared boxed painted details with those sharp acute outside corners within those boxed details... with your words, I agree to "exquisite" !
Hey Sam, really enjoying your channel, excellent watching! Gettin back into the hobby after many years away. What I can't understand is the couplings, amazing improvements in realism everywhere and then these ridiculous looking monster couplings back and front esp noticable on this little guy. I bought some Bachmann stuff in NA and it has a knuckle style small coupling, much more realistic, any reason you think why here we still us these monstrous things :) I guess you can change em nowadays? Such a beauty this little guy, hope the front coupling is removable at least :) keep up the good work!
Thanks very much Donal - that sounds great!! The couplings aren't very realistic, but they're universal NEM ones, which makes them easily exchangeable! :D Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Excellen, you finally got a Hornby W4 Peckett Sam 👍 Great review of the model 😉 Would be nice if you put both your Peckett and the Barclay double head together one day.
At last, my little Peckett W4 loco Niclausse arrived yesterday. Its been on order from Hattons since 2018 or earlier. Its so cute, not even as big as the tender of my P2 that happened to be on the workbench. I've run it in, so next is to install the Hornby DCC upgrade chip. This will be my first DCC upgrade I've done myself.
@@SamsTrains I've just noticed mine has the metal wheel axle ends unpainted. Your reviews have made me now look for those errors. Yours were both painted over and with a painted lining ring around their hub. Hmm, wonder if they forgot that process in their manufacture ?
@@SamsTrains if it wasnt for the fact i live in the united states and not the uk i would have possibly gotten this. still speaking of the us if you ever got the chance i think you should check out a union pacific fef-3 class locomotive. they are quite nice looking in my opinion.
I'm fully agree Sam... a really beautiful small loco and very very detailed. Hope I will be able to buy one next month because I bought yesterday five large tender locos never played with in like new condition for only 450 Euro. Have a great weekend, Norbert
When you mention liveries, as much as I like this works green (DODO in the first run was also this livery) I think I prefer the Huntley and Palmer blue model. Sadly the first run still fetch silly money on certain auction sites and even when they've appeared second hand I've seen them fetch more than double their original price! (I was very tempted to take an offer of £200 for mine, but I'm so glad I kept it). There is a little train pack available for pre-order with a new run of the Huntley loco. If you're wavering and hankering for another Peckett, I'd go for the biscuit blue train pack with 3 Huntleys wagons included, the shaded lettering on the tanks and very complex lining is even more impressive than on 560.
Nice one. I have fired a peckett 0 4 0ST Kilmersdon on hire from SDJR such a lovely engine. The buffers are sprung. From yours to the actual real thing there are differences. But it's a lovely engine.
Thanks Adam! Ooh fantastic - how are they to fire? Ahh okay then, in that case it's a little bit of a shame this doesn't have the sprung buffers :/ Thanks for watching - Sam :)
It's rather easy tbh. It's a small fire box haha. But it requires a slope highest at the doors. The tender is to the side of the footplate. Check your fb messenger
Wow! There is so much detail for such a small model. Also did Hornby produce two different lms jintys because mine and yours have different running numbers, yours is 7414 and mine is 7413. Great video Daniel:)
Wouldn't mind both a Peckett and a Barclay for my collection. I think I'd have them doing shunting, or double heading a small passenger train. It's amazing how tiny this Peckett is
Amazing loco there Sam. And they are hellishly powerful, I've seen other vids where they are pulling 30+ wagons! (See Jenny Kirks reviews and demos) Also useless information... the real one as built about a mile and a half away from where I currently sit, and the drummer in my punk band lives on the same road that the Peckett factory was located in. Also No. 560 was for many many years retained by the company as a demonstration loco and works shunter, so she spent her entire life just down the road from me. Can't find out exactly what happened to her when the factory closed, I assume she was scraped then, but I'll do a bit more digging and see what I can find out. I know of an old guy who used to work for Pecketts in the 1950's, maybe he can tell me. Certainly think you should add at least one more to your stud. The GWR had a few that they inherited from various railway owned dock and mineral concerns at various times and I hope Hornby decide to model one of them in the future. Allthe best Jon
Thanks a lot Jon! Yeah absolutely - all that weight means that they are mightily powerful! Ahh that's very awesome - I wonder what did happen to her? Let's hope it wasn't scrapped! Ooh a GWR one sounds just fantastic!! :D Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Wow. What a beautiful model. You think next time you can place it right beside a Bachmann Thomas? Still trying to get my head wrapped around how small that thing is. lol xD Great vid Sam. ;)
Here my friends is a fantastic community with a brilliant host. He always replies and is always on time. Thanks man for being the great caring and educational you tuber which you are.
Hornby really needed little engines like this. Considering how well it has done for hornby, it's clear the market is there for these smaller engines, alongside other stuff like the pre grouping engines. Particularly if you consider the point when hornby was at their absolute lowest was when they were mostly focused on the biggest engines possible.
Yeah I agree - it's great to see these little engines coming from Hornby!! It does seem to have improved their business quite considerably! :D Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Awesome review! I love this model (I am probably going to get one) and I have re-watched this video countless times. By the way, which music did you use for the introduction running? Thanks.
She really does look nice! I so need to get one! Diecast! Enjoyed the premiere thing! Out of interest do you think/hope that there will be a few other industrial models such as a Horthorn Leslie? Good examples of them would be "Asbestos" at chasewater railway (near me) and "Invincible" on the Isle of Wight
THanks a lot mate - yeah they really are superb, especially with the diecast! I think industrial models are fantastic - they're small, so for the same price as a larger engine, you get all that extra quality and detail! The manufacturers are happy, and the customers are too - so I'm sure we'll see more!! :D Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Hi Glenn! That's true, they are a pain, I don't quite know, but possibly they're best for DC, since you can insulate the line not in use, I don't think electrofrogs do that! Thanks for watching - Sam :)
The buffers are solid because of the lack of space behind for the spring mechanism. Plus the complex shape of the housing to produce. As an example the new Bachmann LBSCR H2 doesn't have sprung buffers. But tbh they aren't really needed
Ahh that's a good point - so the real thing had sprung ones then? I agree they're not really needed, but they would be a good justification for the extortionate prices (especially where bachmann are concerned!) Thanks for watching - Sam :)
In all of the 2 times I've seen these lovely peckett engines running, I've never seen it run on DCC. Strange. Maybe there's more of a joy to controlling such a beautiful engine manually. Being a person who only uses DC, I can understand that, but still. Never seen one on DCC.
Hi Sam. I've got an idea for a challenge. What if you put the Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 against the Peckett 0-4-0. Two similar engines in size and with the same wheel arrangements. It would be interesting, put them to the test on challenges of shunting, strength and cost. What do you think?
There's one thing I'd mark it down for and that's the proprietary 4 pin DCC socket. An N Gauge 6 pin NEM 651 socket would have been much better, then you could choose which decoder you wanted to fit.
Such a small locomotive :0 I never seen anything like it. Though in the states I've always see the diesel pulling those ridiculous long freight trains and it can be quite a pain waiting at the railroad crossing XD
These engines look a bit similar to the broad gauge engines used in St James Gate Brewery Dublin (Guinness Brewery). I like the look of them and there is one in presevation No.3 in Whitehead Belfast Co. Antrim
It's a very simple design though, 0-4-0 with saddle tanks, there's very little on the outside that would change between even completely unrelated engines.
Your welcome Sam only problem is there are no models of the Guinness engine that I'm talking about but you can visit her in Whitehead railway musuem in Belfast and maybe visit the Ulster Transport Musuem
Did you know Peckett only build 5/6 diesel locos before going bust with only one still working (a second one is preserved). If you got a heljan 05 in the Hattons sale or a Janus could do a nice Industrial locomotive running session.
This is model is actually up to modern standards, the only improvement i could think of maybe some discs, lamps, or tools to be packed with it. Recently the shipping prices from the UK to the EU went up (average 17-20 GBP under 1 KG) so I stick to the local exchanges and 2nd hand shops for now, or deal some with my old hobby: "retro electronics"; and visit some flea-markets.
haha it certainly is Tom - and agreed, with minor improvements this could be perfection! Ahh is that so? I wasn't aware of that, that's unfortunate :/ Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Agreed with your rating, this kettle is a real jewel, mine is the Port of London blue. Seems the manufacturers had started a war on small engines : HATTONS : Take that Hornby ! Here's my 0-4-0 Barclay ! HORNBY : You really think I'm finished ? See my W4 Peckett ! And here's my B2 0-6-0 T ! OXFORD RAIL : I'll do four likes yours for GBP 75 RRP each and with an higher level of quality. Just have to found prototypes you do not have already modelled at this level of quality... Let's say the 0-4-0 ST LMS Pug for starter, and brace yourself for the next three ! HELJAN : ... (deafening silence) Yes, we can dream... I would really be turned on by a decent LMS Pug ready to run, not like the basic model already sold by Hornby you have reviewed. Thos kettle are a dream for minimal layout if you want to model an industrial branch line. I have planned to model the tiniest locomotive shop possible for my three little kettles. I'm starting my plans with a surface of 1200 x 400 mm (4ft x 1ft 2in), and trimming the board until I cannot remove any square millimeter. Great review anyway.
Cheers Oliver - I was so happy with this one! Yep - you got that spot on pretty much!! ;D Yes a new LMS pug would be amazing to see! Thanks for watching - Sam :)
Fitting a decoder is tricky to get it right you need a hair dryer to soften the wiring to manipulate the decoder into place.I thought the decoder connections were faulty but you have to take off the little extra piece of plastic on the loco wiring so it connects properly. Lovely model shame about express points tho !
