Coppercap

Hounslow is becoming unrecognisable these days, what with the pedestrianisation of the High Street years ago and now the massive new developments on its north side.

There can't have been all that many people who used just that stretch of the line for their daily journey. Hounslow East often seemed a chilly, windswept station - westbound there wasn't even a shelter, just a ticket collector's hut IIRC (well, as you know, as it used to be near the end of the line, I expect few apart from you actually boarded there going westbound). It's an impressive station now, with many airport staff using it. Living in Heston, I either walked to Hounslow West, or got the 232 bus, or the 110 to Hounslow East, whichever came first (usually the 110...).

Lion appears in the (overpriced because it's Hornby) printed catalogue in the "Trains on Film" pages (alongside the TT pack), but Lion was available only in the "Lady with the Lamp" pack, not a separate item. Catalogues are still on the shelf in my local Tesco, and I left them there...

I felt that was one of the issues with EFE die-cast buses (apart from the exaggerated panel joints) - paint far too glossy, and often too thick. It made them look more like Corgi toys, but they ended up at silly prices before they went bust...which didn't come as much of a surprise. The tube stock, while they sold extremely well, were a missed opportunity.

They're still here though!

Hornby haven't yet worked our how to pull or edit their YouTube 2022 Range Launch video...yet.

For the very few who have never seen the TT film, it's on this coming Friday, at 2:55pm on BBC2...

They were probably made using house name letters sourced from a hardware store in Ealing , and like many film props binned after fiming...

That was one of the errors pointed out when EFE first produced these. It appeared the main body tool was identical for all the models, but with different cab ends as required. They did have correct, different seat mouldings for the 1938 and 1959/62 stock.

The only place I regularly heard Underground trains whistle was at Uxbridge, near the sidings just up from the station. Can't remember if they were entering or leaving the station though, but no doubt there's a 'W' sign there...

1973 stock on the Piccadilly.

It always amused me along there when bouncing along that stretch, and most noticeable on a fairly full train, how everybody's heads, bodies, legs and arms were very noticeably swaying in complete unison. I sometimes used to wait for a 'red' train for the entertaining ride, and the sounds, bound for Hounslow West...

Blimey, watch the whole film and doze off for a few seconds and you'll likely have missed it! Hornby marketing a train pack on the basis of that tiny appearance is madness.

Hornby could resurrect their old Ivatt 2-6-0 along with coaches badly stickered 'Midland' to do 'The 39 Steps', or perhaps use the A4 in the earlier 1950s version. An even earlier Gresley Pacific was used in the 1930s film...so Gresley coaches there. Or how about 'Train of Events', from which several ex-LMS engines produced by Hornby could be used. (On the Saturday TPTV, I think). 'The last Journey' has many Great Western locos to choose from (they could even resurrect their awful rendition of a Saint for that!).

But that's the whole point,it is replicating the Triang Railways train set - loco, coaches and box. The track is the only exception, as SK said in the Hornby video.

Ah, but the buffers have already fallen off - if you're lucky they might still be found rolling around within the packaging...

County of Flint was from the last batch built and has the 'Holcroft' curves to the running plate as modelled, so the name is appropriate. Radnor was in an earlier batch and had straight drop ends and short cab sides, so Radnor isn't a suitable name to have been used on the model.

Hornby has also used the name County of Radnor on a 4-4-0, but shouldn't have as it's from the wrong batch of Counties as modelled...

When you read the comments put on most of his reviews, the majority of them clearly come from people several years younger than himself, and with no relevance to the actual review...

Iron Duke? Now, for a start, that would need a whole new track system to go with it....

A certain previously mentioned YouTube reviewer commends locos that will crawl, then slams them back into coaches (or wagons), often moving them a scale couple of yards, then has it racing off at an unrealistic rate of acceleration...

Or BR Lined Under Grime livery?

Leyland? AEC!

Not a lot of Castles, Halls or even Kings ever got down to Brentford - it was a Yellow Route for a start. The OP would then just have to settle for a fleet of Panniers instead...and the Railmotors had long since departed from Southall by the 1930s.

For me, the whole series has been marred by the usual TV habit of 'using a film clip completely unconnected with what we are talking about' - just about the first mention of "Great Western" and what do we see? A shot that's clearly of a Caledonian train (C.R. on bufferbeam!)... and as for the constant 'tooting' of inappropriate-sounding whistles - that's sooo irritating! I don't think there was much in this series that hadn't already recently been covered in other railway programmes.