A stunning model of Lord President

Great review of a beautiful locomotive. Fantastic!

All aboard!

Great video and review.

I loved your video. Especial "The Hill of Dispair" Great name. Thanks!

Great stuff as always, and thanks for the shout out cuz!! 👍

Great review Hylton, lovely looking loco on your superb layout.Congratulations.👍

I did not know anything about this Locomotive until I came across a Black and White photo of it with the crew standing near the engine, it looked massive and then just 2 weeks later there was a video of the prototype on KZfaq. Since then it has been at the top of my list of must-have Locomotives. I have to make a video of my layout update before it is stripped and ready for removal to another house. Martin. (Thailand)

Hi mate I hope you are well Yes this is stunning model As a lner fan it just jaw droping Mine had issues on 2nd radius bends. I have been told it built for 3rd radius or greater but un sure. I was missing some stuff out my details bag. Which hornby have not sent. Am hoping hornby do a p1. As for the p2 with the extra smoke deflectors analogue people are going to have to wait. Your is very good at slow speeds Looks amazing on your railway Well edited and great camera work Thank you for sharing your models with us Keep safe ARP

Great video as always. I really love the streamlined version of the Mikados; the real things thundered past my house back in the day. I’m surprised by the weight of the model though and expected it to be heavier.

Well again you are buying what appeals to you, good on you! Also have this loco and Prince of Wales. LNER express passenger locos are my favourites. Your layout is great, it shows off the loco much better than the Sam’s Trains carpet layout. Have you managed to track down a Union of South Africa yet?

Such a lovely loco. Livery is awesome. I have a 4% gradient on my layout and it's OK for most things. Just make sure your pointwork is level and everything is sweet. Love the crimson and cream Gresley coaches. (blood and custard?, dont know) Nice loco, cheers for the reveiw. I do like a bit of Lego and Star Wars Funko Pops.

Hi Hilton, good review overall, I am looking to get one or both versions of the New P2 steam locomotives from hornby, definitely looking at 2002 Earl Marchal and may look at getting this version you have shown here but funnily enough I have actually had kitbuilt model of a streamlined P2 for quite a few years now, now to be fair my experience of that kitbuilt model has not been very good at all, first off I thin’ it would be fair to call it a con , I originally purchased it at a small show I want to and while it only cost me £75 it was sold to me as being a running model but when I got it back and placed it on some track it wouldn’t move, it turned out that on this kitbuilt on I had bought while there was a motor fitted there were no pickups attached to the model and because it was a kitbuilt model and because I was a lot younger at 5he time having very little experience of kitbuilt models I had no idea how to fit pickups to it, after taking it to another show to talk to a very good kit builder called Tony Wright I found out that the kit that it was built from was not very good and it wasn’t worth fitting the pickups to and getting it running, eventually at a later stage all the valve gear fell apart and it basically became useless until I found a working chassis of the hornby one that had been released, I purchased one of those and with some heavy modification I was able to fit the metal body onto the hornby chassis and then I managed to add the rest of the valve gear out of some spares I had and my kitbuilt streamlined P2 has become quite a nice model for me, great video overall, as I say definitely a model I am considering along with the Earl Marischal but think I will go for the earlier version without the double smoke deflectors on that myself.

I have P2’s Prince of Wales and Earle Marischal. Both of these have die cast running boards. Unfortunately Lord President, contrary to what Hornby have stated on the box, does not. It has a plastic one. It clearly states on the box that it has a die cast running board. This is a fabrication. This aside, it’s a fantastic model as are the other two. I just don’t know why Hornby would fit a plastic running board to this one and a metal one to the other two.

Great layout n video. Worth checking location of a distillery, are they not at the bottom of hills near the river, for water supply?

The colour photo at 5:21 appears to be a cunning bit of Photoshopping, with the Thompson rebuilt A2 body (a 4-6-2) on a P2 2-8-2 chassis!

Hi again Hylt. Your review helped to pass the time whilst waiting for a flight at LHR. I've got the older - but full fat Hornby Railways - version of Cock O' The North: a very different looking beast! But all 6 of the class are true Gresley beasts, nonetheless. Another very good review, and very much appreciated by us LNER fans. Hornby at its best is hard to beat. Nice touch reversing it into the shed alongside the much later designed (and far later manufactured) A1 Tornado. Now and again, I see Lord President for sale at model shops and exhibitions for £160 - £180, so I may pick one up. It will provide an interesting juxtaposition between it and my fleet of A4s. Hornby has announced another loco with the A4-style streamlining: a B17/5. That will be a very interesting model, as it was - and remained, even after it got the "A4 treatment" - a 4-6-0 ten wheeler! Regarding your "Hill of dispair", I guess you could name it, "Hill of Hope", because there's a first rate single malt to be savoured for those who manage to reach the top...! Keep up the excellent work, sir. You're building a brand. PS: measured by tractive effort, the P2s were the most powerful steam locos to run on the BR mainline (excluding the Garrets). The Duchess/Coronation Class were the most powerful if measured by horsepower.

Hey Hylt, amazing looking loco but to big for my present layout I think. Just would not be able to do it justice. Great to see it on your layout though.

Hi I have Thane of Fyfe nice loco runs really well

Evening Hilton, nice video as always matey, you’ve certainly been busy on it! scenics are looking really well. I can’t get up to Liberty Junction for the time being as I’ve had a little procedure 🍆✂️😱 so can’t do the steps 😭 Those hill of despair rocks are 👌 what mould did you use for them? Ps I’ll check out the Lego vid next

Pity hornby with the new tooling couldn't get the eccentric rod working, as on the black 5, new 9f and BR class2. Shame it spoilt a good model.

Hello Hilton not trying to sound like a know it all but im pretty sure that the streamlined model doesnt come with a die-cast running plate

As much as I like the P2 class, the price of these newer models was always off-putting. I may get one eventually (preferably 2007 or 2002 with extra smoke deflectors), but I've still got the older model of locomotive No. 2001, which was released back in Hornby's bizarre 'Design-Clever' era. I only got the main range version for the better lining and number shading, despite the tooling being the same as the basic Railroad Range version. Thinking back to the streamlined Lord President, I remember being very confused when I first saw a photograph of the real thing. It's just so bizarre to see anything other than an A4 Pacific with that kind of streamlining. For whatever reason, even a pair of 'B17' 4-6-0s had it as well, albeit only briefly.

I wonder if you know what chuffed actually means?

I take it you didnt notice the pic at 5:19 is fake : its what a de-streamlined P2 might have looked like had it not been converted into a Pacific at the same time. I beleive Hornby may have made a model of the A2/2 conversion

Why LMS coaches on an LNER Loco. From remembrance traveling to Liverpool and back, LMS TRAINS where filthy and you ended up black on them , whereas LNER Teaks where spotless.

Do you ever stop buying locos? 😅