This film was MAGnificent . Loved the background music, m'lord. Bill and Janet from California

Super cool video. Love the running atmosphere and the video sequence at the end. I live in Lowestoft and see LNER stuff running in and out of the station. But your video beats watching from the sidelines. Magical stuff Lord Al. ❤. I am at age where a lot of my friends have passed away. Keep your spirits high, your videos are an inspiration. I love your layout. When I win the lottery tonight, I’ll be able too build my own perfect ( or my interpretation ) railway world. Thank you for giving us so much pleasure and dreams. Paul.

Great looking trains those GWRs, the drone footage is brilliant lord Al.

LORD AL!! my condolences on the passing of your friend. Love the camera rig absolutely brilliant. Great work with the magnetic couplings, ive experienced the same derailing issues solved just by swopping it around lol. Really enjoy your dramatic running session Brilliant work.

Hi Al- Excellent job explaining what couplings to use and demonstrating how good they work . I loved the shots at the end - very dramatic. Cheers Kev

Thankyou Lord Al for the video tips and the little movie at the end

Another great and informative video Al keep them coming dave

brilliant video and explanation of the couplings - love the end sequence with the music

That magnetic system for coupling up the train remarkably realistic on the HST2 type trains!!

Wonderful video Allan

Hi Allan, I like the scaffolding for camera shots very clever indeed so Hunts couplings will be bringing a kit out soon I would think!!!! Sorry to hear of your friend passing always a sad time but good you have this hobby to help and the HST's do look great as well as the 800 well done. Cheers Robert.

That was a really interesting video Al.some great filming too.Look after yourself Al😊👍

Hello, m'lord! Great video and walkthrough with the couplings and pointing out the differences. They definitely bring them closer and more realistic. It is funny how a derailing issue solves itself by just turning the wagon or coach around sometimes. I loved seeing your camera rig... that was brilliant to learn. I may just have implement it for some running shots someday. Great running session yourself at the end... it is a beautiful train, and I had not realized how reflective the silver GWR was. VERY nice!

Nicely done, thanks for sharing,,😊

Looks really good with the new couplings.👍

As you know, I have an affectionate soft spot for Mr. HST. I was watching carefully and then one little GWR steamy distracted my attention. Thankyou for running Little Miss Small Prairie Tank Engine, and giving me a close-up at the end. Kisses on each cheek from me.

Hi Allan , great job with the couplings and thanks for sharing ..........Peter

Lovely colour, Great Western green!! I’ll be honest and say that it’s Connaught Green.

Hi Allan, offering you sincere condolences for the passing of your friend. The Hunts couplings really make a difference on your Class 43 Castle Set. I have the ScotRail 7Cities equivalent Hornby set fitted with the same couplings. Going forwards the train has always run well but pushing non-motorised car first caused me no end of issues. Unbelievably it turns out that the tolerances in the tooling differ even between supposedly the same Mk3 sliding doors Hornby coaches. The kinetic couplings are particularly problematic. You just need one coupling to ‘jam’ and it’ll pull the following coach wheels / bogies off the tracks. Hunts identified this problem and developed the couplings you’ve just fitted. In theory the wee ‘prongs’ either side of the magnet provide additional control of the kinetic coupling action and pull the couplings back into alignment. One of my ScotRail coaches had such a poor operating kinetic coupling it actually broke the prongs on the Hunts coupling after time. I eventually found a discounted replacement coach which runs and operates as sweet as a nut. Just to show how it can be pot luck my Hornby Midland Pullman 43 & coaches operate very smoothly with the now factory supplied Mk3 Hornby magnetic couplings. I just wish all UK models could be like our Continental ones where you can fit whatever type of couplings you want so it’s so easy to run stock together from any manufacturer. Thanks again for a very informative video. All the best, Andy

Ciao dear Allan,you have done a gret well job with new couplings thanks for this beautiful informative video have a nice week end alberto 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Hi Allan and Barbara. Brilliant vlog buddy. Hey I know the 3 amigos were still there, saw them on your previous vlog. Couplings are superb. I'm using the hornby magnetic ones because I won't run as many wagons as yourself. Wow fantastic ride on with Brilliant sound track. Thanks for this great vlog Allan. Stay safe mucker. ....Pete....

Good afternoon Dragon Junction!!

1st class stuff Lord Al, If it works for you so much the better. Cheers.

Hi lord Al sorry to &ear about your mate. Been to a funeral today myself and got another mates next week. The hst looks good mate with the close couplings. I had a lner coach do the same, turned it like you and it works, crazy. Anyway Al good to see you on KZfaq cheers Andy

Hi Allan, I'm going it's upside down, it's upside down, Gemma said who are you talking to I said Lord Al it's upside down, then you laugh and said oh ekk I've just put the Hunts coupling upside down, well we both started laughing😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. The couplings did make a big difference and very nice it look. The camera holder work really well good job. Sorry to hear about your lost.Colin

Nice video my Lord AL. Take care.

Great show m’lord. I do like the camera jig you get some fantastic shots though I guess you need to keep vigilant to avoid disaster at the tunnels.

Those Hunt couplings are great. I'm experimenting with them on my stock and trying out various configurations, including those el-cheapo mk1s that came from that Hachette partwork for £4.99. I'm looking for ways to eliminate the gap between coach gangways, which is an ongoing adventure.. I love the camera rig you've built there. Looks a bit like scaffolding hehe Thr GWR mk2Ds are derived from the old Airfix tooling, they were made by Mainline, Dapol and Hornby, depending on who had the tooling at the time. I've got a whole 9 coach rake of them. Mostly Airfix but there's a Mainline one too. But yes they do seem to be a tad long. I'm hoping West Hill Wagon Works are at Modfl World Luve next week so I can ask. I tend to find a 0.5mm gap is the optimum amount between gangways on rolling stock. 1mm at most depending on the curves on a layout otherwise they bind, as you said in the video.

Hi Allen I fell at the back door on Sunday my leg is still soir and bad bureau mate

Well that quite a collection of hunts coupling you must have now, you need a shop peg board with loads of packets, Lol

Hi good show as ever ! Enjoyed it. Will you be adding sound to the HST set ? Tatty bi

If hornby had followed Lima's lead Nd did British HO we'd have all the big companies that tried british HO still doing HO, thus no more oversaturation of models using that dreaded G scale sized D ring coupling.

Hunt’s couplings those magnetic couplings, aren’t they?

By the way, I was wondering what your control system was. I know it’s DCC, but is it the new Bachmann system?

Can i ask will these still work when one of the carriages has the NEM pockets attached to the bogie?, I bought the GWR HST Train set and the carriage boogie has the NEM pocket fixed to it

So do you put your track directly onto the base board? Ie no cork underlay?

Hey Allan sorry to hear about your mate. It seems to happen way too often as we get older. "Facebook/Instagram is it? ... something like that" I always knew you were a social media guru.🤣 I've found Westhill to be very helpful so far as advising what couplings you need in the past. Cheers!