(Paul Revere) "The British are coming, the British are coming!"

If MTH ever decides to do a last hurrah with their Euro stuff I may have to bite.

It's worth noting with the missing smoke deflectors, they weren't always fitted to the coronation class. They were a later addition, similar is true with many British engines, they got smoke deflectors in later modifications. (I believe the design theory was build it with out and if the crew complain that the lack of deflectors causes an issue retroactively fit them at that point lol) And in fact, while double checking my facts before posting this, I came across an old black and white photo of Dutches of Buccleuch without the deflectors.

Hopefully one day we see a model of the LNER A1 Peppercorn Tornado. It is a crowd funded stream locomotive. The people who set the trust up for that steam engine, have plans to make mods engines and gave advice to the people making the T-1.

I would like to provide some fill in History: The Princess Coronations were a development of the previous Princess Royal 4-6-2's and featured a more powerful boiler with more tubes, and slightly larger cylinders and valves (Both designs had 4 cylinders). In turn, this led to better steam production and on tap power, though their tractive effort was more or less the same. Originally they were built with streamlining to compete with the LNER A4's, but the Streamlining wasn't that much of a benefit, unlike that of the A4's. These engines were used on the nonstop London to Glasgow expresses, and by the end of WWII, all engines had their streamlining removed and built to the same look of Duchess of Abercorn (streamlining hurts the maintenance and serviceability of engines). 3 of them still survive today, with Duchess of Hamilton being re-built with her streamlining in the Railway Museum in York, and Duchess of Sutherland being a regular steamer on railtours. City of Birmingham however is couped up in the museum of science in Birmingham.

You are lucky to have a great girlfriend

They have there place in history. But I prefer the USA engines myself

Your girlfriend is too cool to surprise you for Christmas with that engine. Anyone would want a lady that cool to take interest in your hobby and surprise you with something you really wanted. I think she's Christmas in person for you. Glad you're very happy with the surprise and you found an awesome partner..

You were colonized 😂 In keeping with the highest traditions of meme culture

The commentary voices sound more like Australians than UK

I wouldn't worry too much about the smoke deflectors. The non-streamlined Coronation Class had locos with and without smoke deflectors.

Fun Fact about this class, in the 1930s they were atreamlined and they represent the big rival to the famous Gresley A4s like Mallard, with the class leader "Coronation" reaching a speed of 114mph prior to Mallard setting the ultimate official speed record, and they also hold the record for the most powerful steam locomotive ever used in the UK, at 2,511 dbhp with a tractive effort of 40,000 lbf. The later unstreamlined Coronations would earned the nickname of "Duchesses" due to so many, like yours, being named after official Duchess titles

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these 4 cylinder pacific were designed by Sir William A Stanier and were built between 1937-1948 at the London Midland and Scottish railways crewe works.

Duchess of Abercorn has the highest officially recorded power output for any British steam locomotive. This was recorded on a test run coupled to a dynamometer between the loco and the train in February 1939.

Hi Eric , I'm British and its pronounced " Buk Lew " , just found your channel and love it , thanks

I like to see Lionel try out British Steam Locos. I wrote them a letter on that idea a couple months ago and haven't got a response yet. Cool Locos by the way!

The MTH engines and coaches here in the video are pictured in post 1948 livery. The coaches I believe are non-scale to length representations of BR MK1 stock. The engine without smoke deflectors is in the earlier circa 1950 passenger livery, so I believe its accurate as modelled.

My live steam O-scale engines are ALL British, with one of my LMS Moguls and my LMS Jinty directly imported from the UK. British steam, in my opinion, has its own charm.

As quite a few others have said, don't worry about the smoke deflectors as not all GB steam locos had them.