I want them all

Baz, they really are the dogs cojones - no other loco IMHO, exudes power in that way, as well as delivering it. I count myself incredibly lucky to have had a couple of footplate rides, with my father at the controls, when they were still being used in service! Thank you so much for sharing the images with us,

Kind regards,

Jock.

Very nice work; very pleased to hear your views on Stanier's masterpiece. i agree thoroughly, even though the great man himself (WAS) said that his masterpiece was really the Black 5.

As a quick addendum, and as someone who can use all the Stanier 8P power he can muster, the DJH kit still has the odd difficult bit in it. As assembled, the smokebox door casting fits on the front of the smokebox and the whole thing then is too long; put a DJH loco alongside a Hornby Duchess and you will see what I mean. I've built 3 and I own 4 so it is not something I am happy to admit to, but there it is. My future models will mostly be from from old Hornby Dublo body shells, with serious surgery on the firebox area. Hornby's nice new versions of the Duchess are well-proportioned and run sweetly, but not fast enough nor do they pull enough. My DJH ones with D13 power and 40:1 gears can pull 14 coaches and achieve 140+ scale MPH. I ask no more

Terry D