Your more than welcome. Your so right, specially with so much tech in them these day. lol. 👍

Thank you. You'll love it. Have fun. 👍

Wow, what a moment to witness, I bet a great sight to behold. Haha, only fifty hey lol, what a waste of money. Do you know why they had to have their bogies changed at all?

🤣🤣. Ya you know, I was having a little play with the lights just before filming and I did try to get the main light on and for some reason I couldn't.......but I very much think it was the human not understanding the function list properly enough. lol. 👍

Oh SH#T, That ain't good at all. I hope everything gets sorted swiftly. Please keep us posted on how you get please. Guess this is the price on being a guinea pig. lol

Thank you for the update. Something to look out for me thinks. I ran mine again last night at the club pulling 20 PTA's and as of the moment it's still all good🤞🤞.👍

Thank you so much, ya a few more pre-orders on there way soon lol 👍

Thank you 👍👍

mmm. Is the Legoman sound from just one class 56 or from a variety of them. (not saying that Cavalex is or isn't lol) Good luck in sorting it all out. 👍

Thank you. 👍

Who knows. lol

Thank you so much 👍. No that's fair enough. You'll love it, in my eyes it's incredible and I bet the Legoman sound will be amazing. What livery did you order? Cheers, I couldn't think of a better livery with a full length train of PTA's wagons. Thanks again Paul. 👍👍

Thank you so much. 👍Honestly in the BR blue I think it looks stunning, I'm sure the others look incredible with the eye as well, and the sound......well that's next level....In my eyes (ears) it is anyway. lol. mmmmm I'll have to get back to you on that one, The bridge and the board that it sits on came already made up 'I think' and that's how he got it.

Going on about the bridge, well done it is a Central Valley item and it came off Ebay.

@@mrmartinb1615 Thanks for the confirmation. Recently ordered this bridge again from Iron Planet Hobbies (USA), and due for delivery tomorrow! Reasonable discount, but then there is postage and duties. I have already built a totally different lattice deck truss bridge by kit bashing using two of these kits plus other parts. Hoping there will be an article in BRM re this build before long? They are great components so such a pity there ar no CVMW retailers in the UK.

@@davew2452 Your more than welcome. good old postage and duties, lol. I'm glad for you in getting one and I bet that looks amazing to see. Ya hopefully they would and there not might not be retailers cos is there enough interest in them?

Ssshhhh, don't tell everyone...🤣🤣🤣..

To be honest I thought it would be an issue as well not being all wheel drive, but for my brothers layout (all on one level) and for the one that I want build I don't think I'll have any issues running full length trains either 36+ HAA coal wagons, 20+ PTA wagons or 20+ HYA wagons. Have fun with it.👍

If I recall correctly, the centre wheel set in the bogie is floating (vertically). This is an excellent idea so there is not chance of the bogie rocking on the centre wheels. This happened on my Accurascale 92 which had to be exchanged. Floating means non driven I reckon. Charlie of Chadwick on U tube had the derailment issue on an ACC 37, so I like the Cavalex route.

I did but I wasn't too worried about it, they probably had their reason to do it that way. lol👍

@@mrmartinb1615 the whole bogie should be forward more, the front axle centre should be just in front of the door frame hinge not behind it, Hornby managed it, now it's been pointed out I can't help seeing it.

@@DaveT-ii8wq I feel now you've gone in depth with it I feel it'll be staring me in the face. 👍👍lol

To be fair I never ran about full.....I should of tried it out. Thats a good idea running it with the sound off. I payed the price with two of my Bachmann class 37's lol. But take it from me it runs quiet. 👍

Oh really, Now that is really interesting to know. Thank you for the in sight. 👍👍

Small speakers. Would be nice to be able to Bluetooth the sound to a subwoofer. Would fill in the frequency response and the human ear is rubbish at hearing directional sound below 50Hz ( bass frequencies)

I agree Keith yet my ear bud speakers which are tint are amazing for music ,perhaps something like this could be adapted for models?@@keithgooden6299

@@keithgooden6299 I'll second that. lol 👍👍

U are right. I think i pissed cavalex's top boys off the other day. They made out i was commiting slander towards them. So i withdrew my film comparing with someone else as there was far too many dummies flying about. But yes, the tick over sounds are too loud n obvious. A 56 sounds like a finely tuned sowing machine. Its a very nice model . To look at.. saying no more... 😮

Or even just off the carpet lol

My own layout, no I don't as of the moment. The first layout in the video is the 'family' one. 👍

@@fatwalletboy2 The carpet one is just the test track made by Katio, it's good as it's slightly raised off the carpet by the 'track bed' it comes with.

Okay so do you plan to build your own model railway Layout.

@@coreygreen4645 Most definitely yes. The only problem is the potential size and where to keep it when not in use. put it this way I have 83 container wagons and I want to run several full length trains, anything from 18 up to around the 35 wagon rakes. I think they would be the longest trains ill have as a jumbo train (20 JHA & 20 PTA) would be a little shorter. So my planned layout is 40 ft by 10 ft ish with approx 5 to 5.5 ft radius corners. Its on paper as of the moment so its a start and not just something I'm thinking about in my head. lol

Really interesting again the loco picking up dust, cheers 👍👍. As of the moment I don't have my own layout, but the planned radius curve is around the 5 to 5.5ft. Hopefully meaning I could get away with using the screw link coupling if they could actually pull a full length train. I love that most (if not all wagons and locos) come with that option now. When I first heard about the center wheel not being powered I did have my doubts about it, I think they did this approach to "cater" for people with not so "smooth" track work. The be fair with a weight of over 600 grams and as of the moment, I've had zero issues running full length PTA's trains even running round my bros small layout. There is someone on KZfaq with 4 Cavalex class 56's and he runs a helix and his 56 pulled 40 plus HAA wagons up it with a standing start. I think the channel is Wessex & West. Thank you for all the great info.

@@mrmartinb1615 EXCELLENT NEWS: If you can keep above 5ft radius, then a whole load of other realistic benefits come your way ! You can reduce the gap between tenders & loco to real life (just 1mm gap needed). You can virtually abolish the unrealistic gaps between carriages, so corridor connections almost touch (again just 1mm gap required). Especially with modern coach models fitted with "Flexi-Coupling" plates, and sprung buffers. And of course the larger the radius of a curve means ALL your locos effectively become a LOT more powerful. Because they are no longer fighting the curve which gobbles up as much as 50% of the motors power ! CARRIAGE COUPLINGS: 10 second solution. Pull out the toy coupling & replace it with a real life type "Buckeye" magnetic coupling. Made by KADEE. This company make couplings suited to NEM pockets, so just clip in. These couplings are numbered 17; 18; 19; & 20. Where 17 has the shortest shank, & 20 the longest shank. Being magnetic you can insert invisible Kadee under track magnets, or their above track magnets. If you stop Kadee fitted vehicles above the magnet, & release the tension, then these couplings uncouple automatically. They also work in "delayed" uncoupling mode. Allowing you to propel uncoupled vehicles, without them re-coupling !!! Kadee are stocked by "Gaugemaster/The Engine shed" Model shop, & one or two other model shops. SCREWLINK COUPLINGS: Further the "screwlink" type couplings you mentioned are also made as accessories by Romford in metal, and come with a hidden "spring tensioner" to reduced "snatching". Available from "Wizard Models" and other specialist shops. CLASS 56: 4 wheel Drive system, makes it simpler to produce the bogies & avoid some "gears". With 600g+ of weight it should still pull very well unless you have gradients !! LOADS OF PICS TO HELP YOU ! Pictures & Details of all the above & LOTS more, can be found on my Blogsite. Just type "Basingstoke in OO" which should bring up the site (posted by Blogger). This will reveal my Mk1 version of Basingstoke Station on a 65ft x 30ft layout in the loft of house in Germany - Built between 2008-13. There's pages & pages, with loads of construction details of things like scratchbuilt pointwork & modern 3 aspect signalling. HORNBY UK Type in "Basingstoke 1958-67" & this should bring up my Mk2 Exhibition version layout 87ft x 25ft (Posted on the Hornby Club site). You may have to be a member for full access. But this site shows a load more photos & pics of this version of the layout built in Spain between 2016-20. That lot should keep you happy for days, and you can also use it as Reference material. as there's loads of "How I scratchbuilt it info". Happy modelling.

​@@railwaymechanicalengineer4587Ya if I can keep it above 5 ft radius curve I'll be happy and have them tilted aswell. I think the advantage for most people they'll never encounter that problem with tight curves and losing power. Thats really great to know about the Kadee and the carriages. 👍 As and then I start messing around with the screw link couplings I'll find out how strong they really are. I'm thunk the heaviest train physically would be more than likely the jumbo train, I have 17 JHA Foster Yoeman wagons then put 20 Accurascale PTAs on that. If I remember rightly each JHA wagon was about 260 grams or so. So heavy. Lol. Ya I don't think I'll ever have a trouble pulling anything I throw at it and like you say it's heavy enough and it's simpler to produce. 👍 Wow thankyou so much for all the extra info. What's the Web site for your pictures etc. Thank you again. Great help. 👍👍...