hst125

i have recently purchased some mk3 intercity execuitve coaches for my swallow liveried HST. This is because i do not know if they are going to release the same ones in the swallow livery. I do know that the forthcoming buffet car will be in the swallow livery. As a young boy of 12 i can remeber seeing 125's coming into plymouth in the swallow livery with the old executive livery coaches making up the train formation. There are indeed many pictures of this. I bought these coaches just in case they do not release them and therfore i am short. Does anyone know if they are forthcoming ??? i guess they must be. Please advise. Paul

Hi , Does anyone know how i can get this sound ready and any idea of cost ???

Hi all , Well i like many have waited for over 2 years for this new hst from Dapol. It is here at last and i think it is a really good attempt at bringing hst's back into the n gauge market. I have the intercity swallow version and am very pleased with it. It has run smoothly after oiling and fitting of the DCC chip in the power car was easy, and futher programming was good too. I was originally going to go for the Exec livery and am now glad i did not as i too, like other would feel somewhat dissapointed about the coaches. The reason why is this - about 18- 24 months ago, Dapol released the coaches in all three intercity variants and sold them straight away. They produced Mk3 with buffers for other trains and also mk 3's without buffers for the future released HST's. Now here we have the HST's with no possible release of other coaches to make up the sets. It seems that Dapol have not got this quite right. They should have released the sets and the coaches all together. Don't know if there is any further coaches to follow - i know a restaurant car was on the cards at one point, but if only Dapol could provide a consistency with regards to reliabilty and timing in relation to the release of its products. They are in my opion so near to getting it right at times, but just dont quite get it there like their rival farish. Could anyone shed any light on this matter as i would love to be able to have another 4 possibly 5 cars in my hst as i remember them leaving plymouth north road in the late 80,s/early 90,s billowing with smoke as they left. p.S Paxman valenta rules - none of this MTU nonsense.