The new tooled model 158s both units have motors in them. The info on Bachmann's website give you this information!

These are great models, Ive got 4 of them myself, and totally agree with the prices.

Great review my friend 👍 I've got one of these in the regional railway's livery. It looks amazing on the layout. Keep up the good work 👏

I'd been considering the Scotrail DCC ready version of this for ages, but retail price of £280 just too high. However, a few appeared a couple of months ago in Model Railways Direct sale for £214, which was a bargain. Apart from the connector joining the two halves together, I love model - livery, lighting, internal detail and running quality on DC. Really glad I picked one up.

While this video is now 5 months old at the time I writing this I have this model myself and just recently I managed to pick up the bachmann sound decoder that they provide with this, the decoder I have picked up came via Ebay and is practically brand new, at timestamp 11:08 of this video when you did the drivers buzzer and station ambience sounds one thing I noticed was the directional lights which you had as the red lights at the time they went off, I seem to have that myself when I use the F13 or any other function higher than that, the controller I’m using is the gaugemaster prodigy express 2, were you using that as well during this video or was it a different controller? A reply would be greatly appreciated.

Not sure about the 'history,' they were introduced sort of during the years you mention, 1989-92, but there are more than 'one, running around the North East,' Northern has got a huge fleet of these, 2 and 3-car units, covering practically its entire network! But yes, Bachmann has done a fantastic job with this.

Bachmann makes a very dmu but 373 quid is far to expensive for a 2 car set nice review 👍

They are tons of the running round where I live, and in this livery too. Did the 5 car set you mention haave DCC Sound? as that is waht adds the money to them!