Coppercap

Loco is in current guise (superheated + top-feed) and current livery but NOT - thank goodness - the modern horrors of yellow overhead warning signs and no TPWS on the footplate.

The buffer beam lining is orange (should be yellow) and the model carries 'No. 3440' on the front buffer beam which should not be there.

CHRIS LEIGH

I've already pondered about that bufferbeam number. Yes, the real Truro does not currently carry it (just as GWR locos did appear to run for a period without bufferbeam numbers in Edwardian times), but it did have one when it was new, including the "No.".

But it's very odd as to why they've modelled it like that. It not as it was, and it's not as it is.

Well, that's mine ordered now. After previously commenting on the bufferbeam number having "No." on the left of the coupling hook, and wondering if it was correct, it appears that it is correct, for it appears that some locos, but maybe not all, did have this feature, the Cities included. However, it seems that bufferbeam numbers later disappeared for a short period though. As the Bachmann model is of Truro in it's current structural state, "as preserved", the bufferbeam number is incorrect anyway, as Truro doesn't carry one. If it was modelled in "as built" condition, then the complete livery appears to be correct, but it would look rather different to the Truro we all know today. What the heck,there's plenty of preserved locos running in spurious liveries, No.120 for one............

I look forward to getting Truro as 3717, or any other City when they eventually get released, too.

Firstly, I'm certainly going to try and get one, but just a couple of observations from Chris Leigh's sample. Why does Bachmann's Great Western lining always seem so 'heavy' and orange-looking compared to Hornby's? I was put off getting a Hall due to that. Another detail, the real City of Truro does not have a buffer beam number (and I don't think Great Western engines did when they had Indian Red frames), so why has the model, I wonder? Also it appears to have "No." on the left hand side of the buffer beam, and I've never seen that on a Great Western engine! (OK, someone will now prove otherwise.....).

And I hope that front coupling mounting is detachable without butchery, it looks soooo ugly!