Just wanted to say I am new to this and am watching all of your videos one by one- they are very informative and very appreciated. Not at the point of even laying track yet but will be soon. Thank you and keep the content coming

So trains are running between Dean Park and Everard Junction, perhaps via Tony North Easton, then across to Dragons Junction, down to Milden Hall and Volmer and District, then westwards towards Chadwick Model Railway, and back via Mackinley, and Lake Side, and across to Jenny Kurt.

Well done sir! The intercity "Swallow livery" is indeed the best IMHO. I'm so glad you refuse to change your modeling era!

Another brilliant update Dave 👍🏻loving the new 91s and was great having Richard from Everard junction doing his magic on your mk1s …looking forward to catching the next one soon

Superb Dave ,nothing wrong to be proud of your country I’m a Londoner but proud of my Irish routes both sides mum and dad,shame we still have niggling quality issues on the class 91 ,layout getting better and better ,be safe and all the best Mark 😊👍🏻

Great video Dave. Always good to see collaboration between modellers. Dean Park and Everard Junction are a very good fit. Thanks for sharing. Roy.

Some fantastic rolling stock on display. Especially the Azuma, a favourite of mine also, as well as the GNER.

Excellent video Dave your new purchases look amazing the azuma running session looked really smart thankyou for the video

What a great start to the weekend! Excited to watch

The new tunnel portal must be magic, it seems to be linking to the future and also other layouts🤣. well done Dave

Some nice additions there despite the time anomaly. They look really good running on the layout. Thanks for the update, I enjoyed the video.👍🇨🇦

I always enjoy your videos Dave, and Dean Park takes me back to an era when I still had an interest in the real railways. Your occasional 'how to' features are always interesting (as are Richard's EJ tutorials and improvements), so I can learn from them and see other ways of doing things. There's no doubt both of you have some superb skills and a big following. On a slightly minus note, and I hope you don't mind me commenting.... those mark 1 coaches really shouldn't have the end steps, and also the brake ends shouldn't have a handle and rail on the roof. With all the fine detail and weathering carried out, those fictional fittings stick out like a sore thumb to me. Keep up the great presentations and I look forward to the next one.

Awesome as always Dave!!! Thanks for sharing this video. Cheers Onno.

Crikey Dave you have been busy! Spent a few quid on those Hornby loco’s too. Enjoyed the weathering ‘how to’ with Richard. Another great update.

Great video as always. Loving your class 91 collection. I’ve got mine in LNER and looking forward to the matching Mk4s arriving hopefully later this year

Great update Dave. Looking orward to seeing the completed MK2 coach project. Love the rest of the stuff in the update as well. - Nicholas.

Many thanks for another great video. Keep them coming. Take care.

Quite fitting watching this tonight as I've got 91119 on the front of my 1D29 👍

I have to say that the livery on the Azuma is absolutely stunning - I’m tempted and I’m an Englishman who models GWR!!! 😂 Keep up the great work!

I love the class 91's I've got one of the original Hornby train sets the class 91👌👍

13.50 great shot of the layout the class 91 in front class 90 intercity livery in the back ground with the hst's & class 40 & 47

Loving it Dave, that depot is incredible. Reminds me of Haymarket

Can wait to see those mk 1 coaches in video 300.

nice train miniature fotage, you did a good filming, keep up good work, thanks for sharing.. greetings new friend

Great review Dave, at last a proper 91, hope Hornby sort out their quality assurance issues. In this day and age there is no excuse, Hornby you need to up your game as the tiny issues are annoying.

Hornby have been putting out some great models, if they can solve their qc issues and develop some metal pantograph they would be highly praised and congratulated. As it is they're just managing to trip over their own feet too many times and someone there really needs to make some changes or they will not be able to survive in the current market with strong competitors coming into the market and likely more to come over the coming years.

I am tempted by one of the locos. Good video thanks

Great video there Dave, some great content covered in this video, I do like the new 91 from hornby and will definitely be considering picking up the loco and the DVT in swallow livery, I won’t be getting the new mk4s because I already have 8 of the original mk4 coaches and from what I have heard the liveries of both the new 91 in swallow and the old mk4 coaches do match each other so if I do get the new 91 it won’t stick out like a sore thumb when paired with my older mk4 coaching stock, the 800 in LNER does look good and the model as a whole is one of hornbys best, as an owner of the GWR version from the first release and it is very good, I do think the light bleed issue is only on the LNER ones, some brilliant work on the wall Dave and that tunnel entrance looked really good, some great work from Richard as well, overall great update Dave keep up the good work.

wonderful video

Looking great, as always. I'm tempted by a new 91. However, I have the original rake with 91014 and mk4s in Swallow livery plus the more recent 91120 and East Coast grey mk4s. The GNER 91 released so far is post-refurbishment, so not really suitable for swallow, and there's not been a plain Virgin East Coast one announced yet (which could run with the EC mk4s) so I'd be limited to 91111 with virgin branding (which I'm not keen on after seeing how speckled the prints look) or 110 in BBMF livery (which is based on the East Coast grey, can't find if there was specific East Coast branding on it). Or, 002 in swallow livery, but that'd probs look out of place with the older coaches in the same livery (unless I stick it on mk3s and get a surrogate DVT as here). I'm gonna go for the mk4s in TfW livery, and get a super detailed 67 to match, at some point. Can't justify a 3rd IC225 set. I should really get weathering more of my 00 stock, and my 3 0 gauge mk1s. I should also get my airbrush working, as I've had it over a year and not yet used it (and one of the pipes is broken). I also need hunt couplings for my new accurascale IIA biomass hoppers, my new JNA falcons, and more.

It's a shame quality control seems largely none existent these days and not only on Hornbys models, having said that I am glad you are pleased with your 91's and did not feel the 10 year wait a let down. Nothing wrong with a bit of modellers licence, I run 70's to around 80's but could not resist an Inter7City HST for my collection and have a few other out of time locos that are mostly for display but do run from time to time. 91's sadly only get as far as York these days but hopefully you will be able to have another trip South and get one. Looking forward to seeing your weathered coaches running, they will look a lot better than the factory finish, I doubt you will give the Azuma any treatment but I noticed the pantograph cars rooves are a different colour to the other cars when I was out filming the other week.

As always an interesting and varied video but I do think that when we are being asked for such big money for these models things like light bleed, paint imperfections and cheap pantographes is unacceptable, that Azuma is nearly £500 full retail and if you're prepared to spend that sort of money surely you would be prepared to pay a few pence more to not have these faults.

Class 800 in diesel would be a good idea maybe get the hst to be pulled by a loco and have say a maintenance team meaning the wires as there down or out could be an excuse to get some network vans Crain and that as if there reattaching the wires. Would be good as most layouts run as a good day no delays or issues. You could change that maybe lots a HSTs at station waiting for the pilots locos to take them past the damages wires queuing outside the station for platforms and allow for maintenance trains to come bast to mend it. Would look good as a story style running season like as the start of vid with hst news article or what Everard dose so well. Could even model customers awaiting rail replacements for closed lines due to the wires been down. Would love to see it

Great blog - for some reason the Class 91 Electra didn't hit me in same way as Intercity 125 or the 3 I travelled most to See Gran at Preston from SouthCoast BR Intercity XC - class 47,86 and 87's. Got the earlier Class 91 train pack GNER 2nd hand about 6 years ago - keeping this but not seeing the Standout moment for me in new Class 91; looks fine model but still don't like the Pantograph and the big increase of costs with Hornby; finished with buying hornby > £30 due to my QC issues I've had on the Class 82 DVT - light bleed being main one; especially for £77

Nice words Dave. Mixed bag from Hornby - they need to get some QC fast ! Kinda hope they don’t make anything I actually want !

I love me som class 91 action!

It is nice to see and hear that Hornby has nearly got something right. The Azuma does look very nice and then you look at the 91 and it is back to square one again. Quality Control Hornby get a grip on it. Nobody likes knocking the same company time after time. I guess when China send over the painted supplies for approval they take that extra care to get them right, We are all blaming Hornby, but they are made in China and I would guess that they are hearing the same from Hornby. Martin. (Thailand)

Where did you find the countdown clip at the beginning? I need something like that for presentations! Your layout is truly inspirational.

The IC swallow 91..... So near, yet so far. There are a few things that jump out at me as immediately wrong - The front windscreens lack any kind of framing around the edges and top which just looks wrong, made worse by the lack of black edging which you pointed out. The colours look about right but the upswept black swooshes from the cab side look a little rough and the angle of each striple including the main grey and red ones and the curved black part on the roof all seem to be at slightly different angles to each other. They got the design of the wipers right for the period, but then they spoiled that by fitting the un-prototypical camera.... UGh! And then there are the issues with paint finish quality as pointed out. That is so typical Hornby - They do the basic design stuff really well, they let it all down with dodgy paint/livery application. Despite all those little niggles, I would still like one, but not at the circa £200 they will be asking for a new one. I will wait a while until they become available second hand and hopefully the issues can be modified with reasonable ease. The GNER version seems to side-step many of those issue to some degree but the issue with the windows remains. They came SO close to getting it right :-/

A few videos later... 36 Mk4 coaches and 4 Mk4 DVTs arrive at Dean Park!

I assume the metal strips on the archway are part of tying it all together but being able to take it apart for access? Looks very crisp. Time for a display case for your 21st Century purchases! I'm one to talk. I have four Class 31s on my Scottish layout - my layout, my rules! ;-)

" I do my very best to bankrupt myself in a single calendar mouth " - I couldn't stop laughing at this 🤣

Hi Dave! Love the videos!! I have a question if you dont mind that is, what do you use to control your layout? is it computer software? if so which one? :P

One question about the buffer fitted class 43, does it have an NEM pocket Dave, to put a coupling in, so you could replicate a 91 pulling the train slab end first, with the HST power car ,and 91 nose to nose?

Another great an informative update. Slightly confused though. It is now Dean Junction and Everard Park isn’t it!?

Are you going to buy coaches for all the liveries for the 91s? That’s going to be very expensive! Shame about the QC issue on the swallow livery but hopefully future releases will see improvements

Rather than leaving the train in the box you should get a display case for it

Dean Park Model Railway 300 | Bankruptcy.... I assume the accurascale deltic is up next for you?

Random question… i notice on the shots of your HST inaugurating the new tunnel portal (and even the Class 91 and its rake) that your buffet coach seems to be wrong way round? If you look at the flow of the train, you have 2 first class coaches then the seating area of the buffet car before the actual ‘serving area’…. Wouldnt that seating area be standard class seating? And then theres no separation between the first class and standard class… however if the buffet coach was swapped end for end (like on the HST shown in the Everard junction section of the video)…….. then the actual serving area becomes the “separation” between the standard and first class… just curious if this is an over active imagination on my part of not….

On the topic of suppressors... Not quite sure I understand how you can fit to both ends of the bus wire? Doesn't one end of the bus wire connect to the power supply?

Any reason for using enamel paints over water based? Would rather use water based for my project because of lack of fumes and ease of cleaning. However are enamels somehow better for weathering? Thanks

Excellent as usual! I wonder - I do not know the answer - if you removed all your 80's/90's rolling stock and road vehicles, and replaced them with modern versions, would the rest of the layout be 'correct' ? I guess maybe the signage and the advertisements might be wrong, but otherwise? Not suggesting you do this as it would cost you a fortune in new stuff.

Will you be getting the new mk4s and dvts for the fleet ?

So I just wanna know, why does the layout have to be 100% accurate to real life or what time your layout is set in? Are you a purist? Also will you run anything from other countries or even a class 390

So I want to know how many trains do you have now?

Hornby models have gone down when they started making them in China and we pay the price for the models. I try not too buy Hornby now .The stream motion are to thin and break easily. I have two locomotive waiting to be fix . The 91class is not for my layout . My layout is set in the Sixties mainly 1958-1971 .look good on your layout. Happy modelling 😀👍

am I watching Dean park,or Everard junction?

give the thumbs up if you are going to perth dave from murryburn park edinburgh

The Hornby Class 91 looks ace though to me it seems utterly ludicrous that Hornby did not release Mk 4s and a Mk 4 DVT alongside it at the same time. I would rather get the APT but I the Class 91 looks so good. If I do get one, it will definitely be in the Intercity swallow livery.

I know Hornby has come in for a lot of criticism off late , and quite rightly so, however my I suggest you have a look on KZfaq at Hornby beyond the buffers. They talk with the main designer, and gives you a good insight on the difficulties in trying to produce a model as realistic, and true model as possible, like the 91, while trying to keep the manufacturing costs down. The next time you review a mew item, might pay you to look at the other side. No criticism of your review, but sometimes I think your reviews your Expectations are to high. Love your videos

I advise of caution, be very careful of the pantographs as they are plastic and break very easy and do not stay up in position

A bit too forgiving considering the $$$ Hornby is asking.

The constant adverts just ruined the viewing for me on this occasion......

4 class 91’s 😳 so after selling both kidneys how are you doing? 🤣🤣