I thought your camera work was fine and made for another enjoyable Sunday morning running session. Legend has it that GW Closed Van with the bendy roof always wanted to be a Banana Van when he grew up.

Phenominal! I remember Christmas’s 1972 with my Freight-master set…

Thanks again. Got one of these i've had since a boy, same as by the looks, never ever run right. Got the 'Evening Star' at the same time which has been wonderful..

Good morning Oscar, the Britannia is running very nicely, and it's a really good idea to have a buffer wagon with different couplings at each end, it increases your options on what to run. Enjoyed this morning session Oscar always look forward to my Sunday morning. Take care Eddy xx

I have 2 SS 9Fs of the same vintage. There was really nothing quite like these locos available at the time. Enjoyed the video very much.

Hi Oscar, lovely running footage at the beginning. I think that would be one of the last of the original Fleischman derived Ringfield motor powered models before the cheaper plastic version took over. The interesting story of how that first Triang Hornby Ringfield motor came about, and why it was changed to the plastic version, is told in one of Pat Hammond's Triang/Hornby books. I used to drool over those silver seal locos as a child in that very catalogue! Regards, Antony

Good morning Oscar, it's Martin from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. I hope you are keeping well, I've just watched your latest video and it was very interesting and informative as always. Every time I watch your wonderful videos I am always transported ( by train. Lol 🙂) back to my young days. It's quite amazing how most of your rolling stock is in great condition, maybe they had a different construction system to what they have today. But anyway, as i say nearly every week the pleasure of seeing your railway is amazing. I am always on the lookout for a station like your large one, I guess it must be one of the early ones, maybe Triang? I think it looks quite magnificent and I like the colour of it. Is it cream or maybe a very light yellow.? Either way it is a very magnificent structure indeed. Thank you for all the pleasure and happy memories your railway gives me every Sunday. And as always, it's always great to see your wonderful collection of locomotives as well. So now it's time for my tea and toasted tea cake. Keep safe Oscar and have a good week ahead. I will see you next Sunday. The time is now 11.23 am. 👍🚂☕🙂

Another great start to Sunday Oscar. Britannia is an excellent locomotive. Thanks for sharing. Roy.

Good morning Oscar. Your choice of footage is inspiring and your weekly YT video continues to be the highlight of my weekend. Mark

Hi Oscar, I know I keep saying this but good intro footage, very realistic. Nice Britannia. I picked up a Silver Seal R552 OLIVER CROMWELL a couple of weeks ago, 6 traction tyres and flanged centre driving wheel, very smooth. Best wishes, Gordon

Nice model . I have a slightly earlier one , Oliver Cromwell which has the tender and loco permanently coupled . After 49 years it still runs well . I remember getting that catalogue through the post , my first mail order from Hattons beck in 1976 . Thought it was a good catalogue with some good illustrations on layouts , but it could only have been better than the 75 catalogue where vast numbers of items had been discontinued ! Nice Sunday viewing as always . Thanks Oscar

I have a Britannia like yours, and from the numbering on the service sheet it’s from August 1976

Another great video Oscar, thank you. David.

Such fantastic views of the Britannia from the start. Yet another enjoyable video; Sundays aren’t the same without your video and a good coffee. Thankyou so much, all the very best Marc from Leighton Buzzard

Another. first class video Oscar ,very enjoyable .Must say it is quite a substantial motor in the tender but like mine noisy , but can pull 8 coaches no problem on the flat .Keep up the enjoyable videos Oscar 😊

Very timely video.I have just got hold of R063 myself. I really like these early Silver Seal models. I also have R859 Black 5 and R863 class 47. Both smooth quiet runners. Hope to get hold of the two 9F's as well someday. After a full clean and service she still had a bit of hesitation and needed a gentle nudge to start on occasions. I have since hard wired the tender to the chassis and it now runs faultlessly.The glossy finish looks great as well. Thanks as always for sharing.

Morning Oscar, another enjoyable start to Sunday. It seems the Hornby tender drive loco to tender pick ups were frequently troublesome, the extra wire being a common modification. You mentioned wondering why Hornby never made a pug in connector wire for theses locos. The first Tri-ang Hornby Evening star, then the early Hornby Black 5, Black 9F and Oliver Cromwell had a fixed wire between loco & tender, effectively meaning they were permanently connected but not coupled. The instruction sheets advised carefull handling as a precaution. The only Early model wired this way I don't have is the Oliver Cromwell, the Black 9F wire needing a repair! Nice assortment of stock today, handy having the dual couplings on the fish van and Utility van. All the best from Me and Sue.

I rather like the warped GWR wagon - full of character- it’s amazing to think if they were produced from 1948 that the original GWR still existed (just) then !

Greetings over there, Brittania is my favourite of all time🎉 thanks for sharing, as always enjoying. Kind Regards Elizabeth Lines

Good video this morning Oscar, I have one of these silver seal Brittania locomotives but it is 70013 Oliver Cromwell, I have recently just managed to get mine running again, my one is one of the versions hornby did with 6 traction tyres on it and they had all gone bad with how old those tyres were so recently I managed to get some more tyres and fitted them to my model, I’m very happy to have it running again, keep up the great work Oscar.

I have this same model. It is a delight to run it on my new layout. Only one board at this time Martin. (Thailand) Yorkdale LNER Preservation Railway.

Good Morning to you Oscar from Glasgow another great video from you Sir I've got a Britannia Hornby New Locomotive Firth of Clyde Thanks again for the video 📹

Nice Close upshots at the beginning Oscar 😊🚂🚂🚂

Lovely video as ever Oscar.

Yes in 1976 £14 for a loco was expensive ,if you think even coppers were on only £35 a week ,I started as a postal cadet in 84 on £75 a week at 16 that was considered as good for my age better when it went up to £100 after I passed probation 😊😊 But disappointed with my purchase I told you about but no worries All the best Oscar Mark 😊😊

Good morning Oscar , lovely locomotive the Britannia never actually owned one. I do much enjoy your videos my favourite is the coronation class LMS crimson livery..

Sorry Oscar ,, 1 more question ? You showed an above shot of the tender motor and you can see the armature and drive cog moving in and out and there seems to be a heck of a lot of excessive movement there. I have have pulled a few of these apart and some of them have what i think are tiny plastic spacers and are quit thin but I think they could also be used to keep the armature and drive cog from moving in and out. If you put them on the drive cog side you may have to use a puller to get the small brass cog off main drive shaft then put the washers in between the motor and the ouer casing of the motor then put the drive cog back on ,, or easier still is to put them in between the brush cover plate and put the tiny washers in between the armature shaft and the the outer brush housing to stop it from moving in and out and also might reduce the amount of noise coming from the motor as well. I know all the other connecting cogs do make a lot of noise but if you stop the drive shaft from moving in ad out it will as they stopping the other cogs wont be moving so much. How I come to notice this on one motor I was doing some work on the motor was a goer but it was really quiet. But after a good clean was going better but soo much noisier than it first was so I looked at my towel for any missing bits and I found a heap of small plastic washer or spacers on the towel so i pulled it apart and put all the washers in it and it was strong powerful and backmto being the quiet engine it was to start. Hope this helps you as you have helped us all by showing us great information about how the history of triang is and train repairs. Thanks again. Cheers from John in Australia.

I enjoyed the session.. Nice to see the Britannia stretch it's legs on a bit of freight, with a nice variation of 4 wheel wagons.. Our Britannia is an earlier version, with a motor in the boiler? It seems to me that the Britannia chassis seems to run easier than the similar Princess chassis? Maybe Tri-ang had tweaked the measurements a little between models? Thank you for some nice memories.. Cheers, Rob

Oscar...I don't suppose you know of a front bogie wheelset spare? I have oliver Cromwell and is complete apart from the first pair of wheels. Thanks for a chill video. Like the way you end with shots of the catalogue

Hi Oscar ,, Quick qusetion on the loco for this R.063. Is the chassis a type that you can put a drive cog on the the middle drive wheel and add an X03 or X04 motor into the loco than add a base plate wiring and the pickups to the actual loco and then hook it all up to really what ever you need to drag behind it as with all them driving wheels in the loco and the tender you could cart a pretty big rake of what ever you want realy.. Cheers from John in Australia.

I was wondering how large the flanges are on the wheels of the Tri-ang models. In the United States at least, there are three codes of rail; code 100, code 83, and code 70. Code 100 track has large enough rails that you can run vintage HO gauge models on it, but more recent models have smaller flanges so they can run on the more realistic code 83 or code 70 track.

Were did you get those Bogie fixing Screws/Bolt from?

Hi Oscar, you mentioned CKD bogie pivots. Are they replacements for rivets? Guy

I believe that motor in your Britannia was originated from Fleischman, could be wrong though