So advanced looking somehow, yet so elegantly victorian. What a wonder. What a GREAT addition to your layout!!!

FUN FACT: Emily from Thomas & Friends certainly happens to actually be completely based on this fine steam-driven railway tender locomotive!!!!!!

Hello Matt,

Great review of a really beautiful steam loco. Excellent.

Its such a nice model . We can put some figurines inside the cab too .

What a stunning locomotive !!! Brilliantly made! A very nice cabin! Awesome!!!! Love it. Regards Onno.

I have to agree. 11/10 for the engine aside, she is beautiful in her own way, I have something to tell you. Last week, I went on the craziest Chester Model Shop shopping spree you could imagine. Aside from my first haul of a Milk Float Van, a Chocolate & Cream Mk. 1 Restaurant Car (for Rood Ashton Hall's Shakespeare Express Train) and a pair of HAA Hopper Wagons, my second haul went madly overboard. For £235, I bought Dapol 00 gauge 2-6-0 Mogul Tender Engine (Great Western Green with BR number-plate) 7301, two Bachmann Manor engines (7800 Torquay Manor and 7802 Bradley Manor), Hornby Tiny Terrier Tank Engine Leadenhall and Electrotren Tank Engine Molly. All were tested and ran like a dream. Dapol's GWR Mogul is the best model Dapol itself has ever created. I highly recommend the engine to you, she's everything you could ever dream of.

love this Stirling Single! Great video as always Matt!

Good to see the proper large tender after so many years. It makes the loco look really powerful and business-like. My Dad used to go to bed as a child when he heard the big drivers slipping as they started out of Humberstone, Leicester, having been 'put out to grass' by the GNR.

This will look good on any layout , great runner ......Peter

Such a nice model, still waiting for mine!

Matt Slade,the round metal etched parts are designed to represent the rather large axle end on the main drivers.These can be glued into place using UHH or similar paper card glue. Remove the circle carefully from the fret using a sharp knife or etch clipper,then glue into place using a small dab of adhesive in the centre of the part. You'll notice that we've included some spares in case one or two turn into flying saucers....quoted in instruction manual bottom of page 6,drawing illustrating this is in top right hand corner of page 7.

Agree with your conclusion, Matt. This sets the bar so high....can't wait for the carriages and whatever locos they produce in future.I'd like a Victorian crew for that footplate!

That is such a beautiful locomotive Matt.. Rapido Trains do produce some cracking loco's.

One of my fav GNR locomotives!!!

When you get yours - read the brochure first! There is a lot of information about the model and how it works and what to do. It also has a quite humourous tone to it as well - especially "IF YOU DIDN'T READ THIS BIT FIRST!" When fitting the splashers to the bogie area I found that they did not fit due to the cylinders being about half a mil too long. A quick (and careful) trim with a sharp scalpel soon sorted it. An excellent model and well worth the four-year wait from ordering.

Looks lovely, but as others have said a bit on the expensive side. No doubt Rapido have produced a beautifully detailed model - looking forward to seeing more of the Stirling Single at Jubilee Road! 🙂

Nice one Matt really good hopefully when you get the coaches a running session with no 1 on the Clifton valley railway

what a smart looking loco. Good review Matt...

Lucky boy ...nice ....have a great weekend ...unfortunately I’ll not be able to get there....one day no doubt will get to the Severn valley...regards Fred