Amand

I'd love to hear what was bleeped out in the visitor centre section! Thankfully now the key people at Hornby have a passion for what they make, and the impression I got was very favourable for Hornby staying in business.

Yes that's the full blue box. I was thinking R3676, shown on the same retailers site, 7 in stock so a fairly recent release, unless they bought a container full of em!

I could be wrong, but hasn't a version of Hornby's Mallard been sold in a blue box? I think it was an outer sleeve with red innards.

Hello, looking at the buffers, where the shank meets the buffer beam bar there's a big difference between model and real loco. The model shown as pre-production has the buffers just plonked in place. Looking at other photos on the web the shanks are recessed into the running plate (sorry if that's not the correct description). I've zoomed into a photo from Wikipedia, owned by Peter Skuce https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Railways_Class_A1X_Terrier_32678_Tenterden_Town.jpg where he has given permission for the photo to be shared / modified as long as he's credited. I know there will have been modifications to the real locos over the years, but the model looks odd, certainly differs from the photos on Andy's posts on page 1. Amand.