Good morning Mr Snooze, glad you enjoyed seeing those items on the move. Take care. Oscar

Hi, thanks for watching definitely a different ethos involved as well as materials when these things were designed and manufactured. Oscar

Good morning Paul, glad you enjoyed that, They're a beautiful set of models that Dublo produced of these great looking locomotives. Take care. Oscar

Hi, thanks for watching and the information it's much appreciated. Take care. Oscar

Thanks for watching Mark. Glad you enjoyed it. Take care. Oscar

Good morning Gordon, thanks for the terrific information about the magnet, much appreciated. Have you seen the articulated coach set on Triangman's website at present? Take care. Oscar tri-angman.co.uk/product/hornby-dublo-d252-lner-gresley-articulated-coach-set-poor-but-ideal-restoration/

​@@oscarpaisley Thank you for the link. What a wonderful set - imagine receiving them one Christmas morning as a child, I'd have been ecstatic!

Good morning David, great to hear got to see the real locomotive last year. These are quite wonderful model/toy items with a wonderful feel about them both in handling and use. I've re-finished a number of skates now and experimented with a change in the spring type within the pick up assembly, both of these operations make marked improvements. I've also acquired some reproduction parts as at some point there is going to be nothing left to refinish on a number of the pick up skates I have. Thanks again take care. Oscar

Thanks again Mike, for watching and the information it’s very much appreciated. Take care. Oscar

Good morning Eddy, Glad you enjoyed a look at this Hornby Dublo model of the Sir Nigel Gresley, I was very pleased to have come across it at the TCS show. Thank you again for watching and the very kind words, very much appreciated. Take care. Oscar

Good morning Martin. Glad you enjoyed the video. Hope you enjoyed your cup of tea and marmalade toast. It was very kind of the person to send me the double lighting unit, sadly, it still sits exactly where I left it when making this video a short time ago, along with the turntable I must get around to getting it weird up. Take care. Oscar

Hi, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. Take care. Oscar

Hi Gordon, terrific to hear you have a 2 Rail Golden Fleece, glad you enjoyed watching it run, there is something quite hypnotic about watching these. All the heavy items run around the railway. Thanks again take care, Oscar

You get my vote for a video on Dublo rolling stock.

Hi Tom, great to hear you have a Wrenn version of the Sir Nigel Gresley, they went on to develop some terrific models from the inherited range of tooling and technologies, sadly, my collection of Wrenn items extends to just one tank locomotive! It's a very tempting group of models. Thanks again take care. Oscar

That's very kind of you I'm glad you enjoyed the footage. When the model came to me it ran but the wrong direction on the controller. With Tri-ang models/motors when this has been the case, I have simply popped in magnetiser the other way around and model just runs correctly. I was quite worried when I put this in the magnetiser to do the same thing, and the end result was just a home from the motor and it wouldn't run, popped it back in the magnetiser and reversed what I had done and it ran faultlessly But in the wrong direction on controller. I have to admit, I put it away, quite frustrated with it, there was no problem with the armature catching on the magnet, There was plenty of clearance on both sides. I decided to turn the magnet over and magnetise it once installed. At that point, it would run in either direction, although the magnet appeared to be in the correct position nice clearance around the amateur sitting in the right place in the clasp, and no undue play in the bearings. I loosened the screws on the clasp holding the magnet and very gently tapped the magnet with a light hammer to alter its position very slightly with this tiny adjustment, it ran perfectly with the controller. I put it in the magnetiser and magnetised it the wrong way around and back on the track it wouldn't run, but with a slight adjustment on the position of the magnet, it would run perfectly obviously in the wrong direction at this point. So I put the magnet back in the way round it was originally, and positioned it visually in the correct place, magnetised it, and then made very tiny adjustment with the hammer again, and now runs perfectly with the controller. The adjustment in position with a magnet is minuscule. In magnetising the horseshoe magnet, I have followed Ronald Dodd's advice and done it at multiple points and down at length.. I recently bought a Duchess of Atholl from the local market, Also with a horseshoe magnet ran in the wrong direction on the controller exactly as above wouldn't run, when magnetised the correct way around tiny adjustment on the position of the magnet brought it back to life. This just has to be a slight change in the position of the magnetic field around the amateur and makes such a big difference. Thanks again, hope the above is of some interest. Oscar

@@oscarpaisley this is a most comprehensive write-up. Many thanks for sharing Oscar and taking the time to describe your experiences in detail. From my O-level physics schooldays, i have a dim recollection that hammers and magnets aren't a good combination...🙄 I'll check out the running direction of my HS N2, atholl and Sir Nigel based on your obsevations.

Excellent idea. Never thought of that. Now I can repair my LMS 0-6-2, it must have run many miles, the pick ups actually have grooves worn into them!

Hi Graham, thanks for the great info and taking the time to watch, I've switched the spoons with another locomotive with less wear and also changed from the older style pick up spring in this locomotive to the slightly later version, the copper/ bronze flat type, These seem to apply much lighter pressure and more evenly across both the pick up spoons. It seems to give gentle pressure and evenly applied to the spoons, makes quite a large difference to the performance. I'm just about to switch the spring in a tank locomotive for the same reasons. Having also been experimenting with solder and refinishing the pick up spoons along with some reproduction spares. Take care. Oscar

Hi Roy, thanks for watching I wasn't looking forward to the trip with the weather forecasts that we're going on at the time, the forecast for the return journey that day across North Yorkshire and County Durham was particularly poor, given what had been happening over the previous few days? not worth the risk. Definitely got plenty of them. Thank you again for watching. Glad you enjoyed seeing locomotive and coaches in action.. Take care. Oscar

Good morning Mike, and great memories of the layout loft, I do have a single Hornby Dublo Pullman coach. Thanks for watching take care. Oscar kzfaq.info/get/bejne/at9hqdtprZzOqn0.html

Good morning Robin, and thank you again for watching. It's great to hear about your plans for a three rail railway, having had a fair bit of 3 rail sitting in boxes for some years, I had really been looking forward to getting to play with it again, it has an amazingly satisfying feel/experience when in use and has been very rewarding developing the railway so far. Sorry to hear about your problems in buying items from the UK, it was not one of our countries greatest moments its un thought out decision in detaching itself from the European Union, sadly, I fear this is going to affect many of us, not just here in the UK for some decades to come and not just in the acquisition of model railway items. Hope you're able to acquire some interesting items on your upcoming visit. Take care. Oscar

Good morning Jimyjames, thanks for watching that really is a terrific box lid. Take care. Oscar

Hi David, glad you enjoyed that, nice to hear you have the Duchess of Atholl in your collection, did you make the conversion to 2 rail yourself? I've not yet tried converting a 2 Rail model to 3 Rail or 3 to 2? thanks again for watching take care. Oscar

@@oscarpaisley I didn’t convert the Duchess of Atholl to two rail, to be honest I’m not sure exactly how to convert a 3 rail model to 2 rail plus I have read up about how to do it and I’m sure I read somewhere that the wheels on both sides of hornby dublo locomotives are not insulated from each other so when converting a model to 2 rail you have to make insulators for one set of driving wheels.

Hi David, I think you're right it's quite a complicated process to make these conversions. Oscar

Post war teaks should have grey roofs to reflect real life. To be accurate this loco and coaches don't match. Pre war white roof and A4 with post 1941 number.

Hi, thanks again for watching and the great information about these teak coaches, I find it very difficult, deciphering the information available about Hornby Dublo items, so all information received is hugely appreciated. The ones with grey roofs I have are different again, but lovely looking items, I Imagine any young person at the time these were new in the toy shops lucky and enough to have them would have been thrilled to play with them. Take care. Oscar

Good morning David, thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed this little bit of fun with this version of Sir Nigel Gresley. It does indeed have a split pin holding a rear truck in place. I've swapped the pick up spoons and the spring holding them in place for now it's made a huge improvement with it performance over the track work, especially the uncoupling rails. The original spring that provides pressure/tension to the spoons seems to provide very uneven and strong pressure to the spoons, it appears to be very hard and inflexible, possibly would have been more flexible when originally installed, I do have one in another locomotive that appears to be more flexible. So far, I've not been able to find a replacement for this, It would be nice to do so. I can find reproductions of the later coppery/ bronze flat type spring used although I can't find the item referred to as the Distance Piece 11299 for spacing it within the assembly, I'm sure I could improvise something here. Maybe Hornby Dublo switched over to the coppery/ bronze flat type spring as it provides a more even gentle pressure overall. Either way, great fun items to run around the railway. Take care, Oscar

Good morning Martin, thanks again for watching. Glad you enjoyed seeing this terrific model from the Hornby Dublo range.. I do have a Duchess of Atholl, and like this model of the Sir Nigel Gresley it's definitely play worn and has been very much enjoyed, but a lovely runner and very rewarding to use. Take care. Oscar

I look forward to seeing the Atholl on your layout Oscar.

Good morning Lisa, great to hear enjoyed the A4 running. Thanks for the link to lovely layout down there in New Zealand, it's a joy to watch. Take care. Oscar

Thanks Kevin. Oscar

Oddly, I didn't !, but I do now, thank you very much for letting me know, I'm intending to be there on the Sunday morning and is about a 40 minute drive. Are you attending the event? I used to go down to Sheldon quite a bit when they had regular shows well before the pandemic. I had planned to go to a show there last year in the event I had to self isolate as I had COVID-19, I have read about and heard from others that tried to go that their new system of booking a time slot is somewhat chaotic trying to gain entry not only to the museum, but also their car park, after hearing of this put out of mind visiting there again, it's not really practical to have a time slot entry to visit a destination with such a geographic location and limited parking. Thanks again take care. Oscar

@@oscarpaisley Unfortunately too far away for me. I had no idea they were still being so picky about when people can visit (!). I hope you have no issues.

Morning Cameron, thank you again for watching great to hear you have a version of the locomotive Sir Nigel Gresley in your collection. Take care. Oscar