Can't wait👍 I drooled at Rockets in a local toy shop, £50? clearance in the very early 80s, May as well had been a million pounds😵‍💫

Another Snooze Classic. When You Do Fire It Up On The Track I Think Mrs Snooze Needs To Supervise If Your Mamod Flying Kettles Are Anything To Go By 🤣 I'll Be Tuning In Next Week 👍

Good morning Mr Snooze what a terrific group of items, I love the promotional literature, sadly missing from my collection of catalogues of the period. I remember a school friend of mine getting one of these for Christmas at the time and going to his house to see it running after school one day. It looks just as terrific today as it did back then. Very much looking forward to seeing and hearing this in action. Take care. Oscar

Wow, what a thing. It's beautifully made and I can't imagine Hornby making this sort of thing today. Imagine how much they would charge for it? You must have been thinking about getting this going for years. What a fascinating series this will be. 😊

What a great loco! Let's hope the safety valve is OK!!

Your collection is so expansive and varied, another lovely condition item, the boxes are colourful and in great condition for their age.

If I hear a bang coming from the farm I’ll know you have failed 😂

What a lovely model, looking forward to part two,I am sure your expertise will be able to fix it . Richard

That is another wonderful looking treasure you have, I remember it well from the catalogues but never saw one on the flesh. I look forward to seeing your strip down service and investigation hopefully it'll be nothing you can't sort out, it'll be great to see it in steam. I do think it's a shame Hornby used so much plastic in the construction it certainly could have benefited from some metal in the key points of stress.

The Triang coach names you were trying to recall were the names Times, Experience and Despatch. So two names quite different with the large scale names and I don't think repeated in the recent Hornby new tooling of the coaches. The coach appealed to me for display as being more of a scale outline without the burner operating parts etc. However I never came across one here in Australia.

I've run that loco for a Sony video in the year of the Falkland's war and it was too fast so I had to tie a string to it to enable filming.

Fantastic train! I was lucky enough to see the real Stevenson's Rocket when it was in the Science Museum in London. It looked pretty grubby and black instead of the lovely yellow when original, everyone with me (wife & kids) was confused as to why I was so interested in this old engine when there was so much other stuff to look at. Just wondering if you did get it working as I have looked for a link to a follow up video but can't find it?

Thanks for the very interesting coverage. A worry that some new owners of an old but looking mint model may not check the safety valve in the urge to get a shelf model running. An alternative safety valve may be the later improved combined filler and safety valve you referred to in your talk on the model I expect almost impossible to find and original item but maybe one could be made up from available parts for other pressure related purposes. I think Hornby later saw the demand for shelf models and sold less expensive non working models as an option.

Wow what a great set , is the rockets track the same gauge as your mamod track looking forward to next video all the best.

Great model and some really good innovation by Hornby . Not seen one up close before. Mind you that was a tremendous price hike from £59 to £99 (£400 in todays money according to the internet)I think if I had paid £99 for it back in the early 80s I would expect more metal as opposed to plastic…I guess, though, everything on that model is bespoke to that particular loco so I suppose to cover the cost fully it would be expected to be expensive. I can’t help but wonder if a later combined filler and safety valve would screw into the filler fixing of the earlier model rendering the original safety valve obsolete. Most modern “live steam” garden railway locos seem to use steam oil to internally lubricate valve gear and pistons…..makes me wonder if wear, particularly on the valves, would quickly become a problem.

Is there anything you do not have in your collection Mr. Snooze? This is an amazing product. I wonder if Hornby has a drawer or shelf of odd parts and a safety valve amongst them? I shudder to think of what I was earning in the mid 70's when looking at those prices. Regards, David.

These really are a fantastic looking model. Did you get the safety valve checked out

Very interesting to see this classic relic. As an alternative to stripping the whole model, can you try to source a filler cap safety valve? With that much track this must have been intended as a Garden or G Gauge alternative? Mon from Brisbane

We have one, we had it running a couple of years ago. but it was a bit temperamental. Think we had the wrong pil in the cylinders?

With 3.5 in gauge track, does it state what scale it would be close to?

Where did you get your tracks?

hope you only used about 10 psi and no more