Back in 2008 I had a big garage where I had set up a model railway. You could control all the points, lights, and engines from a square cut out in the middle. I moved and I had nowhere to set one up:\ But in June im moving back and i'll be starting a new model railway:D And this engine will be #1 on my list:D Thanks for inspiring me to get this model:) Keep up the reviews.

LOL, love it how you refer to the train as her and she and keep talking to her !

I absolutely love the BR blue livery! It just looks so lovely and sleek, great review!

The "I dont know what she's doing" sound is the safety valve lifting :)

A great review Will and so glad you are back in helping us to decide what locos to buy next ~~:))

Another great Review InterCity82. I cannot wait for the next one.

the safety valve that goes off when you leave her idling is very realistic!great model you have there mate!

I just can't get enough of that sloped front on those trains, I started watching your videos simply because they were relaxing and I loved your enthusiasm, but the trains like this one, the royal ones etc. are just... stunning. Truly the most beautiful trains or any vehicle I've ever seen. It's led to me buying some trains of my own and learning a lot about the engineering and history behind these things. It's mind blowing! Keep up the lovely vids Will (I'm a Will too). You're great. :)

I bought an A4 Paciric Golden Fleece 42 years ago second hand Its the Talisman for which I have four original Talisman coaches Its still running great and after all these years its still my favourite design loco !

Also for a Hornby this train is especially amazing. Their packaging and their train designs are so much better now. About time they listened to their fans. :)

Amazing review as always! One of the smartest A4 liveries in my opinion! Certainly has the sound to match it's beauty! LOL! Love the clip of her thunder by at the end! Great work!

What an engine! I do love the A4s, and got to see all the survivors together in July, and i met Will there too!

YES, I love this loco, keep up the good work. you don't disapoint

Another great review and my favourite A4 is the mallard

IC82 is the most epic reviewer of trains out there! Keep up the great work man, can't wait to meet you on the 13th

they look so magical beside each other

WOW THE VERY LAST BIT WAS AWSOME

I love the A4s. They are unique and so beautiful. From the Bugatti nose to the back of the tender, they are amazing.

WOW!! I was so impressed by your review Will that I searched hi and low for a Sparrow Hawk and managed to track (excuse the pun!) one down and it's being delivered tomorrow - can't wait!! Keep up the great work by the way.

Great review I think Sparrowhawk is beautiful nice one Will

As always IC82 a fantastic review.I can't wait for the great gathering.I also recently bought the double tender Bitter,its look amazing.

An outstanding review well done.

My Sparrow Hawk arrived the other day and oh what joy, she is a beautiful looking loco and to top things off, she has sound but I hadn't realised it has a LocSound V4 decoder in it until I read the instructions - bonus!!

Would love to see more of her pulling some coaches :)

Very interesting `production`, the presentation is first class....well done.

Absolutely amazing model! Great Review! :)

brilliant, once again. i cant believe anyone could dislike this

BEST CONCLUSION EVER!!! awesome review mate really enjoyed it :)

Very lovely loco. The whistle is what grabs me.

Great to see how she looks! A wonderful livery - the only one I have yet to add to my collection! I have Sparrow Hawk in BR Green, Kingfisher in LNER Blue, and Silver Link in LNER Two-Tone Grey.

I have had one for about a year, wonderful engine.

Loved the video. A bit long-winded but I like your style, especially the plaque on the skirting board, LOL. And I agree, it's a lovely model and the sounds were ace. Gotta get into this DCC stuff myself. Cheers.

Great model. Gotta have me one of these A4's with sound.

OK, Im sold! Would look great going round the garden.

Very nice Will

OK Will, some info. The paint colour is garter blue, as used by BR at the time. The sound when she is 'idling' or 'simmering' is the over pressure being released from the safety valves. Thanks for yet another great review!

Love the loco and really want to get a A4 ! keep it up! -Jacob MRC

Awesome stuff

I love your videos

Great video! I have this loco myself (albeit a DC modification by Olivias Trains since my setup isn't DCC) and it's probably my absolute favourite. The livery is BR Express Blue, by the way.

at 9:15 you can see the paragraph under Will's finger says "on passing to the newly formed British railways the Sparrow Hawk was re-numbered as 60018 and painted in experimental BR blue as depicted on the model"

That sound after the coal shoveling was the safety valves.

Regards double heading, I saw B1s double head A4s between Leeds and York many times, even travelling on said trains.

Great video love the A4s and especially the single chimney ones, I have mallard in br green premium, and silver fox in silver jubilee premium, great video mate

I believe the colour is called Express Passenger Blue, the unveiling of Tornado in her new colour (which was this colour) most people said it was Express Blue. Great review as always, i did miss my weekly dosage of IC82

oh my god i've never seen a class A4 go so fast like that ps love thw whistle

Nice A4 that!

another great review Will keep it up :)

Thank you

Magnificent!

lovely loco

Asthetically this is my favourite A4 model.

hi will wow what can i say what another awesome video from you and what a great loco to do a video on i love the a4s and with sound just brings it so much to life this looks a great loco an i agree withyou will you cant beat the a4s from hornby they are at the top of their game with this model 10/10 as always will great video keep them coming peter from essex

The A4s that were named after birds were used for general use. That is why Sparrow Hawk does not have a corridor tender.

It’s not bad at all because bar one is fitted with and esu loksound. Amazing loco dude :)

The Garter Blue shade is usually linked to the LNER A4 loco's and this shade of blue as BR Blue (White Lined) the same as the Hornby Merchant Navy "Canadian Pacific". Then you have the BR Green shade and Wartime or Mixed Traffic Black coloured A4's. The other four A4 loco's by LNER are the Sliver and Grey locomotives, Silver Link, Silver King, Sliver Fox and Quick Silver. I hope you find this helpful to you. PS: the sliding slots on the cab roof are ventilation openings for the driver and the fireman.

Smart loco !! According to Wikipedia it was withdrawn on 19th June 1963.

I went up to to York on the 29th June and 3 were in the great hall, Union Of South Africa was having her smoke box cleaned, Bittern arrived in style at York (watch my latest video for that) and Mallard was under rappes and stickers were on the paint shop windows. Still can't wait for the unveiling.

hey will, I looked it up and it really doesn't matter what way you say radious. but then again you can't trust everything you see or read on the internet. and the smoke stack you are thinking of for the mallard is called a double kill-chap blast pipe. still love your vids will. please keep posting!! :)

amazing

The dovetail connector is a menace, drops off all the time

Lets not forget the Allegations about the GREAT AMERICAN PRR S1 Lowey. NOW Thats a gorgeous locomotive, good luck getting a hold of one of those IC.

Experimental BR blue -> Last paragraph @backside... ;) Superb vid (as usual) m8! ^^

The Express Blue has got to be my favourite livery on the A4

I like your sign!

Stunning model.....

just started my locomotive hobby. I'm not familiar with hornby but this looks amazing. sadly I don't seen Hornby products at our local hobby shop. ended up buying a kato starter set instead. imho the steam era really championed by the british, diesel by the american and electric by the japanese

Sparrow hawk was actually withdrawn 19th june 1963 and cut up in 10th july 1963. Hornby got the info wrong. if the info had said "Sparrow Hawk enter service on 27th november 1937 and succumbed to the cutters torch on 10th july 1963" then it would be right.

The mysteries sound is her letting off steam because if the pressure is to high they always let off steam so Hornby, with the sound chip, is mimicking it. At least, I think so

That sound really sick. For your next video can you do a review on the spectrum plasa tampa

Brilliant. If I had so choose a top link loco it would be a DCC sound a4 in lner

YES FINALLY AN A4

Good review, and got to love the A4! Also it wouldn't be Hornby packaging without catscratch paper :)

To answer your question about the tender, not all A4s were fitted with corridor tenders. Some were, but others were not. As far as a comprehensive list of which A4s recieved corridor tenders or not, I can't say. For example, I believe number 60006 "Sir Ralph Wegwood" didn't receive a corridor tender either. Perhaps there were other examples at the great gathering at York?

I think that particular blue livery is BR Express Passenger blue, like Sir Nigel Gresley wears. Garter blue is the lighter blue that Mallard and Bittern are currently in.

Your videos made have to start collecting trains, thank you

The RTR A4's have improved over the years :-D

nice loco

Regarding the info on the real Sparrowhawk on the box, I think it more likely it was withdrawn November 63 as stated, but cut up in June 64 as opposed to 63, plenty of loco's spent some months stored between withdrawl and scrapping.

She's blowing off steam

that sound was of water being ejected from the cylinders (when a steam loco sits for long time water builds up in the cylinders and needs to be ejected every now and then while the loco is stationary and before the loco starts moving.

having just looked up sparrow hawk's lifespan, here's what the conclusion is: entered service 27 November 1937 and then withdrawn 19 June 1963. thought i should share that bit of information. again Will, i do agree that Hornby did make a slight error with that information and as we know, some information can be misleading. brilliant review all around though

The tender had corridor connections in late BR days, this livery tells you it is early BR days, therefore, it was after the war. That means the corridor connections hadn't been added yet. As LNER never built them with corridor connection, that was BR who added them around the 1950's, when the early crest was taken away and replaced with the late BR crest and was late BR days.

Ace :-) I'm going up to York on the 2nd for the 75th anniversary plus Hornby will be there with limited edition A4 fantastic loco will :-)

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

The great gavering is awsome youll love it!! I went there 2day and i wish i would of never left!! ;-)

Hi Will, Like the review although it sounds as though its the first loco you've ever unpacked. I guess that's your enthusiasm! I got "Herring Gull" a couple of years ago and found that the exhaust chuffs per driving wheel revolution weren't right when the speed was increased so I adjusted cv 58 and it was fine. I've never really liked the sound of the whistle (the sounds on mine are identical to yours) so I've just rewritten the sounds on the loco decoder with my ESU LokProgrammer. I've put on some better sounding LNER A4 whistles. I've also adjusted my A4 (with cv 55) so that it goes at a top (scale) speed of about 126mph so that it performs like the original. The next project I have for this loco is fitting a smoke generator. A Seuthe 5mm one fits, all I have to do now is connect it with the decoder.

I liked the video of the A4 nice locomotive

Garter blue is Mallard this is BR express blue the colour that Sir Nigel Gresley carries currently 2014

I hope there is a mallard variant that doesnt have smoke, I just want one with lights and dcc sounds

Not sure how the Hornby deconder works, but on Zimo decoders F5 usually adjusts the sound of the loco so that it sounds like its under a heavy load.

you can pull from the front as the chain coupling (3 link)

went to york's NRM it is fantastic :) i loved it

Hornby says it was withdrawn on the the 27 November 1937, this is actually the date it entered service and was withdrawn on the the 19 June 1963

In reply to Mallard's record, when you consider that she weighs 100 plus tons minus tender and it was 1938 it's EXTROADINARY!

Awsome

You can select all of the different sounds on chip by keying on 10 - I think from watching your other videos you have a Hornby select system so it is possible.

Have you shown any shots of your layout ? That would be interesting

no its just standard BR blue. The garter blue is a slightly different shade. Its not far away though. Hornby do tend to make their paint finishes a bit too "flat".

The livery is BR Express Blue like Tornado, King Edward 2 and Sir Nigel all currently wear