Great review. Glad you are happy with it. The Swallow livery is one of my favourites. Regards Paul.

Great video so much going on thanks for sharing DD.

The HST was needed for the power for the marks 3 coachers so the mark 3 DVT would be wrong. also with issues with the power car on idle . The HST power car added there drive to the train

I remember these running from Peterborough to Stevenage with HST on the back. The acceleration was great. Great video.

An excellent and thorough review. Fabulous looking loco. I will be purchasing the IC one as I have a full rake of original Mk4s, so your comment that the livery shades match well was useful. Will probably get a new Mk4 DVT when released. Personally, I always ignore comments that "such and such" a company would have produced a better model. The small company concerned haven't even brought a loco to the table yet; so well done Hornby. Thanks for posting the review.

Cracking model in a classic livery. 🚄☮️😀

good improvement from Hornby and good detailed model - no light bleed but hopefully there won't be any issues on forthcoming MK4 DVt like this; still unhappy by the plastic and some say cheap feel pantograph and the expensive RRP - costing £218 + 85 (DVT) and 8 of MK 4 coaches x £44.99 = £662 - tad too expensive

The Mk4s were delayed so they had a power car running with remote control equipment which meant the 43 was contributing to the acceleration.

Good morning Peter, fantastic review of this beautiful model and complimented very well with your mk3’s and Buffered HST. Pleasure to watch and some information I didn’t know. I have the swallow one, LNER and for the Fallen. GNER one in the post! No disappointment with these so far! Keep the videos coming love your channel :) take care Alex!

It's definitely a major stepup from the old 80s Mk4 sets, it's nice to see that we finally have lights and more prototypical configurations for the set eras etc. However I find that technologically it's still way behind the likes of brands like Bachmann & Accurascale. Still no servo motors to work the pantograph, nor the provision for having the light configurations be operated via the DCC controller rather than a physical switch or sound ready models. Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely looking loco but I just find that Hornby really need to properly up their game if they want to stay in the competition

Excellent review Peter as always. Looked great with your IC MK3s and HST stand-in DVT. Best regards Gary.

Nice looking model Peter.

Good review and nice model

The original 91 and Mk4s were very basic quality in lightweight plastic. This 91 is much better and can pull full size trains. I think its a competent model with no problems even if not worth around £200. To make my old Mk4s run without derailing I had to add concrete weights and transfer the train from 2nd radius to 3rd radius.

shame they couldn't fit the front skirt properly without that big gap at the front inside position

The clear light lense panel is as built, and the panels got modified later, I assume because they kept breaking

Brilliant review of the new 91 there Peter it looks fantastic in the swallow livery, the loco and dvt in swallow are definitely models I'm going to consider picking up in the future as my older 91 does struggle to haul the 8 original mk4 coaches I have even though I have added weight to it, I won't be getting the new mk4s personally.

A plastic pantograph for that price? Horrible in my opinion.

It's a damn shame Hornby railroaded Cavalex on this model, I think we all know Cavalex would have delivered a far superior model with the following; 1. Motorized metal Panto, not a plastic toy like one as done by Hornby. 2. Detailed Cab Interiors, not a bland toy like one as done by Hornby 3. Based on initial CAD's/Renders by Cavalex much more superior detail all-round 4. Cavalex more than likely at a cheaper price for a superior product 5. Hornby again missing paint and other details, inexcusable and just lazy The price of this Hornby 91 is far too high for what you get thus apart from the points above that's reason I will never buy one. It just doesn't look that special and has Hornby written all over it.