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Matloughe

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Good Evening,

 

I've been fiddling about on the layout having a 'runnng session' working out some tweaks for the track layout and what works and doesn't work. Half-way through the afternoon I felt a change of era, from BR (S) to Southern Railway - perfect as it gave me the opportunity to run my new A1X Terrier from Hornby - the first Terrier released in a 'Mainland' Southern Railway livery - all previous Southern Liveried Terriers have been based on Isle of Wight examples - with the wrong bunker as well but I digress.

 

Very quickly I noticed the livery didn't match the coaches, some of Hornby's brilliant Maunsells in SR Olive Green livery. The new terrier is much darker in livery resembling BR (S) in some lighting conditions.

So I raided the box and pulled out my Southern Olive Green M7, which matches the Maunsells perfectly, also my Hornby IoW Terrier W11 which has a slightly different shade but matches the coaches alright - last but not least my Dapol Terrier in Olive Green as well 2635.

 

Now the question that springs to mind is how hard is it to match a livery? The T9, M7, Maunsells and Van C match perfectly, W11 being older is slightly different but matches ok aside from the Southern lettering & Number being much more yellow. And the new livery much darker, that's three takes on Olive Green Livery. Also the wheels on the new Terrier I['ve just noticed are a different much more 'olive' shade again - how bizzare.

 

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New Terrier # 2662 and Dapol Terrier 2635, with Maunsell BCK. Note wheels are a different shade of green to the body.

 

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Hornby M7, Dapol Terrier & New Hornby Terrier - never noticed how much larger M7's are.

 

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Dapol Terrier & New Hornby Terrier back to back with a Maunsell Carriage in the background.

 

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Old Hornby W11 Terrier and new Terrier, M7 in background. In this picture the M7 and Terrier appear to be the same colour

 

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Hornby Terrier and Dapol Terrier.

 

Now aside from the livery variations the new Terrier has been impressing me severely. For performance it is very happy crawling along with a heavy load at slow speeds, the Terrier managed to restart a train of 11 coaches, 2 Maunsells, 3 Bullied & 6 Mark I's on a scale gradient of 1 in 17 on a curve without an issue - definitely something the prototype would now be able to do. And ran perfectly out of the box with no real attention - before its haulage test the locomotive was given a light oiling and she strolled off with no issues.

I am extremely happy with a purchase especially at the price of £49.99 from Smallworld of Barnstaple - no connection just a very satisfied customer. Ordered it and it was in store within three days - over a weekend. Now next plans are to modify a LB&SCR Terrier with the addition of wingplates to represent an A1 condition locomotive.

 

Thank you for reading.

~ Gary (Matloughe)

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Bluebell Model Railway

interesting... looks like Hornby taken the chassis and wheels off the malachite SR IOW terriers and plonked it under the new terriers.... which is probably the reason for the difference.... and probably cutting corners to reduce cost of production...

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Matloughe

I compared the wheels with my Olive Green Terrier - they are definitely a different shade of green compared to those. Its very bizarre as Hornby did a fantastic job of replicating Southern Olive Green Livery on the Maunsells, M7, T9, Schools Class etc - so why is this little Terrier a different colour? That's what I find bizarre.

~ G

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