High Quality Flagships! Hornby Class 43 HST in GWR and First Great Western liveries

High Quality Flagships! Hornby Class 43 HST in GWR and First Great Western liveries - Review

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High quality flagships are those products you know a manufacturer has put a lot of love and care into. The Hornby Class 43 HST range, here in GWR and First Great Western liveries, are two examples of this. Let's review them together, courtesy of TMC The Model Centre. Visit them at www.themodelcentre.com/
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Chapters:
00:00 Video Start
0:30 Introduction
2:50 Locomotive giveaway!
04:24 Sponsors
05:19 Why the new Hornby HSTs are important
06:39 Overview
14:19 Unboxing the First Great Western Class 43 HST
19:00 First Great Western Class 43 HST review
32:12 GWR Class 43 HST review
34:34 Roof fan test
34:59 GWR Class 43 review (continued)
36:47 DC Running Test
37:08 DCC fitting guide
41:35 Lights test
42:32 DCC Running Test
47:21 Scores
54:19 Conclusion
57:27 Thanks and sponsors

Пікірлер: 48

@JamesPetts 10 ай бұрын

I approve of HSTs. I have fond memories of seeing these on the Western region growing up, and using them to travel to Swansea to see my grandparents in the 1990s.

@Brettski777 10 ай бұрын

The HSTs are and always will be my favourite loco. Although I have BR Blue and Yellows and Virgins, the pride of my collection is the executive livery. The set has cab detailing and driver, cab lighting , Retro fitted LED direction lamps , Can motor and 8 pin DCC conversion . A superb way to breath life back into some elderly Hornby tooling.

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Always great to do a few upgrades to an older models.

@joshuaW5621 10 ай бұрын

I love how the HSTs look in these liveries.

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

They do suit them.

@SwindonJunction 10 ай бұрын

Defo my fav Diesel locos. i have a few analogue version and a couple of newer DCC variants on my layout. great review thanks for sharing

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@carolinecleaveley 10 ай бұрын

did not like the hst when it came out as the brakes smelt and took over from the peaks i loved. However after all these years its earned my respect. I cried when i watched the last GWR one come through stonehouse.

@ScottishNSRailFan 10 ай бұрын

Enjoyed your presentation. I do love the HSTs and have 31 pairs in my collection. All bar one has sound with the latest sets fitted with HM7000. The latest set to join my collection is R2701X and has still to get sound.

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@GinoACosta 10 ай бұрын

Jennifer, first, wonderful channel and videos! I'm from the States.Second,may I suggest in future review you do a pulling power test? I want to know just how powerful a loco is. Maybe a guesstimate on how many cars it can pull as well. Love and thank you so much!❤

@74aamer 9 ай бұрын

I love the hst and so glad they have brought it back on preorder and the 125 hst engines which I’ve ordered though one is £406

@Kev5565 10 ай бұрын

Very nice and well presented by you of course. I agree with what you say about the doors but maybe only see the point for them on a shunter working in a yard, the spring loading of them is even more pointless in my opinion. I hope to see re-tooled swallow livery with re-tooled mk3 coaches. Keep up the good work.

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@EngelsNederfiele 10 ай бұрын

The original APT test bed was a gas turbine unit, no source of data viewed has indicated any fitment of gas turbines to HSTs, trails of Mirlees Blackstone engines were carried out but they failed to be beneficial, this was also found with class 37s fitted with engines from this company. SNCF had a fleet of Class T 2000 gas turbine powered multiple units which proved expensive to run and also towards the end highly problematic.

@mikeburnitt403 10 ай бұрын

The main issue with the MB190 engines was they were set at 2500hp which caused the Alternator and traction motors to overheat and catch fire.

@dilwich 6 ай бұрын

Great review Jen.

@mels1811 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video Jenny 😀

@jameshardy4354 10 ай бұрын

The reason the lights are different on the second hst set the lights got changed

@shakeyhandsshedmodelrailwa2494 10 ай бұрын

UNTIL RECENTLY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE LAST TRAIN I'D HAVE BOUGHT , but now i'm older and they are slipping into history i have one of the originals in original livery

@ianobrien6908 10 ай бұрын

Good review of the class 43, always a pleasing model. By the way, I spotted the Tardis (haha) :)

@carolinecleaveley 10 ай бұрын

waiting for the TT120 ones to appear.

@JamesPetts 10 ай бұрын

The Inter-City executive version would look splendid on Wear Yard (especially if you have fun and mix in some blue and grey carriages into the set as would have been the case for many trains in the 1980s), but note that this earlier version will be like the "fag packet" type and will not have working fans.

@markfitzsimons2414 10 ай бұрын

Love the hst

@francismewton3276 10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately your not keen on these HST but I do hope they grow on you Jenny ,I remember these coming into service and no dought see them faced out altogether ,just remember these wonderful class 43s set the fastest diesel speed ,,my favourite livery was the blue ! First great western and after many years I've just started to get this set .the HST in GWR green castle class not bad x

@hamshackleton 10 ай бұрын

Ciggy packet livery - to me that is the black and gold colours that Lotus used. - - Who will be first to 'dirty' them up with a dead bird splat on the nose?

@brianfearn4246 10 ай бұрын

Great review, there's no detail in the guards compartment, just a plastic peg .. just for interest the hornby DVT has a small seat by the luggage area window 😊

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

Cool, thanks!

@GregPalmer1000 10 ай бұрын

The prototype was 1972 but the production units were 1975

@user-cm8kr4dl4e 5 ай бұрын

Would you know what motor drives the Hornby GWR High speed train in green livery. mine is burn't out. its part of the Hornby R2130 train set. Cheers Gary.

@karennickel2356 10 ай бұрын

Does the HM 7000 decoder work all the light and fan functions?

@Michaelgoestofrance 7 ай бұрын

One thing that jumps out at me is the quite visible (especially at track level/for display models) motor mechanism 'gearbox' on the the bogies of the powered car. I'm hoping this won't be transferred over to the TT:120 HSTs, of which I'll be buying a few - tho I guess in that scale the gearboxes, should there be any, would be quite hard to see...

@1701_FyldeFlyer 10 ай бұрын

I really dont get why other manufacturers, accurascale, bachmann, heljan etc have not brought their own HST to market.

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

I guess it would be difficult going head to head with this model.

@JAKE_CS 10 ай бұрын

i have a fleet of the original Hornby ones i love them but they are miles away from the newest ones.

@1701_FyldeFlyer 10 ай бұрын

Should give them the same number. If you dont, you'd have to do a 'consist' via the DCC controller which limits the dcc address id.

@Yorkie4412 10 ай бұрын

Jenny when you dcc program the power and dummy car do you give both the same address or do you treat them as 2 separate locomotives thanks

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

Treat them as the same loco then they work together in unison.

@Yorkie4412 10 ай бұрын

Many thanks for your help Jen I was not sure cheers

@PaulGarwood 10 ай бұрын

Can the HM 7000 Bluetooth decoders be fitted to this?

@JenniferEKirk 10 ай бұрын

Yes they can.

@jeffheins6624 10 ай бұрын

My only gripe is that the nice swallow livery coaching stock is so bloody expensive

@mikeburnitt403 10 ай бұрын

I see Hornby are still using the wrong bogies, the axle end bearings should be ordinary bearings on all axle ends and not the steel plate style on half of them which was only fitted to the XC, LNER , MML and (I think) GC power cars much later on in their lives when the WSP system was upgraded, FGW/GWR power cars were never fitted with the upgrade, except 43053 and 43056 which had it when transferred to FGW. Plenty of other small detail wrong on all 4 but considering its Hornby and a diesel its still pretty good, and yes I have bought both of these and the blue/yellow ones.