Sam Szeto

The model is now in stock and ready to ship on the locomotion website (notified because I received an email from Locomotion). Not sure why it took so long, it appears to be the same as the Dublo 4472, but without the metal body, and £100 cheaper

Confused. The product is called "British Empire Exhibition Condition", but isn't that what the Dublo R30207 condition is? At the BEE, Scotsman had the taller cab, with LNER and 4472 on the tender (like R30207). But the box for the locomotion models edition shows it with the lower cab and 4472 on the cab. Whilst this is arguably the most famous guise (LNER 4472 A1 corridor tender, the look she had for the majority of the LNER years), and was missing from the Dublo lineup, why is it being advertised as BEE? Also a "lower" price of £250 means presumably not Dublo (this diecast), even though it's the livery most people wanted. Confusing and expensive

Maybe kids of today are different, but I'm very suprised there's no steam locomotives. If they did I might get one as a cheap hack around project.

My question is: why do there need to be two Mallards? They are both £320, except the Great Gathering one is Dublo, so will be metal, but I assume the 85 years NRM one won't be? Why would you buy the NRM one. Hornby definitely know there is money in LNER Pacific fanboys... (Except I'm one without money...)

Unfortunately I am quite basic and have a thing for the flying Scotsman. However Hornby still won't produce an A1 LNER 4472 version with corridor tender - as it ran on the non stop route! The only version like this is railroad. If they had made this version I would have even considered spending £360, because special anniversary etc (and I graduate next summer, it would be a nice comemerative present)... But not for a version I don't want, and would have to renumber. In 2019 I bought a used NRM Scotsman for £60, I've taken the smoke deflectors off, and even though it's an A3 4472 (which never ran "originally") and has the electrical warning signals...it's good enough for me

Are the images on the Hornby website renders or real? And if they are renders, are they just scaled down of oo models with a different coupling, or actually a render of the TT model