What a generous donation and a lovely set. Lucky boy Bill

Hi Bill. May I suggest using plasticard rather than Miliput. It will bond better. Lovely loco, what a gift.

Lovely to see my ‘Arnold Sands’, ‘Scarwood’ and BR ‘Railfreight’ wagons running on your layout Bill!

Saw a Britannia on a FB Group as a non-runner for £20. Missed out and wish I had been quicker as they are very graceful looking locos!

Love your videos, which give us great confidence that virtually any problem is repairable and that sometimes, just a good clean up, is all that's needed, to give a non-running loco, a new lease of life! Thanks so much!

Enjoyed your latest video Keith thanks for sharing DD.

Great locomotive that one Bill, enjoyed the video, thanks Bill

Hi Bill brilliant video again very nice looking locomotive looking forward to your layout update you have a very nice layout and I like the way you make your trees keep up the good work and videos Bernard

Hi Bill, I think the wheels are from the missing coach. You are right about the coach without the crest not being from this set. It should have 1 brake and 2 composite coaches. But still a wonderful gift.

Hi, that Britannia loco looks very nice

When we were kids we used to cycle out to a little village near us each evening to watch the Grimsby to London Fish trains which always had either a Brit or 9F on them. Immingham had 6 Brits for this purpose consequently have always been my favourite Locos. I've actually got that particular set you have been given and it does come factory weathered which as you say has been subtley applied. Lovely Loco.

Interesting about the rods movement, I have a Clan loco 72000 which keeps bending its rods as it goes round the layout in 1 direction. All my curves are more than 2 rad. Will check the clearances on the pins. Also good tip about the wiper pick-ups on the tender and the Milliput plastic, thanks for all your ideas and tips.

Britannia’s are lovely looking, but I always had a thing about tender driven locos. Maybe one day…

The layout looks great and I share the same feelings about changing/rebuilding but I have never gotten around to it. Life gets in the way and I always seem to have challenges around the layout. My layout occupies the whole room and I made the mistake of not including a lift out section and I must crawl under the table. Your new plan looks great but like yourself I have thought about installing a turntable but I don’t have the space; I have three loops in each direction at one end so that will need to suffice as a fiddle yard. I like the crossovers as this provides additional routing. Good luck with this project and I look forward to following your progress

Nice one . Dornoch Firth is one of the last series of Britannias with a bigger tender . Never know what they are called but maybe a BR1F . Hornby haven’t produced too many of these , so it’s quite unusual . Really nice loco though

Another great video bill, I think some charity shops would be very grateful for any donations to sell on.

Don't forget to put on the wheels! Great video of one of my all time favourite Hornby locos. My pride and joy when I was a boy was my Hornby Britannia - it even had Synchrosmoke! Now that I'm bigger I've got two on my layout: "Oliver Cromwell" from the Hornby 15 Guinea Special train pack and "William Shakespeare" for my 1950s Golden Arrow train.

Black gears are 3 pole grey are 5 pole pretty sure they changed in the 90s. This is also a weird one because I am sure this should be a loco drive motor going by the product code.

You’d be surprised how much current a wheel with a tyre actually picks up. I have, as an experiment in the past wired one of those types of tender to be ‘self contained’ and it ran lovely. Just stalling on points

Nice job Bill well done :)

Lovely looking engine. Seems quite late for a tender driven loco - wonder if it was one of the last such models that Hornby brought out? (A very generous gift but I suspect it was at least partly due to the donator wanting to hear 'Dornoch' pronounced correctly).

What a lovely locomotive. I cannot understand why Hornby abandoned swivelling bogies in favour of fixed ones?

Grey gears usually means a 5 pole motor. Andy

Runs lovely for a ring field motor Bill Nice loco Nick Australia

I've got a second-hand Hornby Coronation from 2012 that's been giving me similar problems with too much play in the wheels and rods. The rods bend incredibly easily. The slightest knock - even just going into a tight turn at not quite the right angle - and they start clicking against each other. I've even had them lock up entirely a few times. So I'm looking forward to seeing how you sort yours out.

I guess assembly is done by half a dozen people and they don't have to do everything like you had to!

Another great video, as you said a more up to date Ringfield configuration, was it a five pole motor I've heard that Hornby produced some?

Hi Bill ,, What is the stuff called that you kneeded together with your fingers to fix the break in the body. Is it lilliputt or milliputt you were calling it. By the looks of how you prepared it by rollin it around with your fingers reminds me of a radiator/petrol tank goup type of hole fixer to plug holes in them. Thanks in advance m8. Cheers from John in Australia.

I noted your coaches were close coupled. Did they have the big Hornby D couplings on them. If so how did you fit the magnetic couplings on them.

Good stuff bill have you ever attempted to fit a flicker fire box to any of your steamers...................tony

If you manage to find a way of making it quieter, let me know as my 9f has the same motor setup and it whines a lot as well.

Need that loft layout for more space

Another fantastic film Bill, what magnetic couplings are you using on the coaches ?

I suppose you're more likely to need extra pick-ups when the locomotive is going across points, and the flanges are more likely to be in contact with the rails while going through points. But I agree that those flange pick-ups seem more like wishful thinking than anything else.

Interesting video as ever Bill, you could change the number to 70051 Firth of Forth if you wanted to be a little more local. Silver Tay Models do the numbers on eBay.

Apart from that annoying whine that was pretty good mover for an old Britannia.