It was an unusual pack. The coaches were meant to represent teak suburbans but were in fact full length gresley corridors. Its rare for these to be done in early br ownership teak. In fact the Rare Bird train pack from the same year had similiar coaches. Subsequent reruns by Hornby of the teaks representing BR ownership had iffy printing of the teak effect. I bought this set for that reason. (For a lot less than 200 quid) just to add extra post LNER teaks to the Barry J Freeman set. The N2 was ancient tooling even back then, ex Mainline I believe which had dodgy pickups and hard to get sorted. The reason for the printing on one side, is that was the side that led straight into the compartments. The other side led to the corridor. So smoking and non smoking would have been inside. Pipe work only ran on one side prototypically. My Summary ... great coaches, naff loco. Great to pick up for a 100 quid or so and add coaches to the Freeman set and sell the loco. 😂

Dusty, I be looking for a 1/48 scale METRO International panel truck, as designed by Lowery in 1939.

I just ordered one. Im just getting into British steam locomotive. I think they are beautiful machines. I live in Nova Scotia east coast of Canada and we have a few British locomotives in a museum in Ontario that were given to us. A4 class I do believe one called Republic of Canada the other is Dwight D Eisenhower. I may have spelled the last name wrong.

Like the old classics

Nice to see campervans joining in the fun!! I’m getting a small modern campervan, hopefully on Monday.

This show is very similar to the Enfield Pageant of Motoring, at which I marshal every year. The main difference is that the Arena is the race track!!

My cousin David in America completely rebuilt a British Racing Green Mustang ragtop!! He now owns National Automotive Lines in Shelbyville, Indiana.

Some gorgeous racing cars. I may not be into racing, but the best acceleration I’ve ever had is with my current Renault Zoe. The electric car has better acceleration from 0-60 than most petrol cars around the Broxbourne area.

If you dab a small amount of WD 40 with a cotton bud I found it works well

Some very nice vehicles there Matt! People just love their cars and enjoy showing them. Love to see your Tiger again. cheers for now Malcolm

That N2 is as old as the hills. Originally a Mainline issue, then Dapol? and finally Hornby. Yes its should be a railroad model now. Pick ups are terrible to sort if you dare remove base keeper plate. Just sold mine as a new tooled one is rumoured to be coming out by someone

The same coaches were in the Barry Freeman Rare Bird pack, I remember thinking about (but didn't in the end) buying the 1948 Olympic pack just to get s couple more of the coaches.

Add some weight plus a little weathering and you have something that is no longer a box queen. I guess I would just put it back in the box for the archeological type people to find in the distant future. I always want to see more so anything you do is OK by me. Great content and video, Jersey Bill

Thanks for another great video. I have never tried a Metcalfe kit but they are available here in Canada so maybe this weekend I'll get one and give it a go. It would be cool if they made some kits in vintage "Dublo style", in proper HD colours. Cheers.

Nice looking coaches. I’d imagine the No Smoking/Smoking signs are correct. There’s no reason why they would be on the corridor side. They’d probably be on the internal doors to each compartment.

Hi. Always enjoy your reviews. As far as I know the smoking/non smoking signs never appeared on the outer corridor side windows of the coaches. They would have been on the internal compartment windows.

The plate on the cabsides is the builder/works plate saying where and when it was built.

A stunning model of Sir Nigel

Would be interesting to see a video on the two Javelin packs. You can do a bit of comparison between them. The purple pack is the budget train set/Railroad tooling while the white one is the more detailed railways range model.

These teak coaches are going for upwards of £60 these days, this pack is well worth the money for £130.

Hornby \Simon koller defo know a marketing idea 💡. Good video , stadium will be good to see 👀 strange it not to scale.

Does it have to be ran with the new HM7000? Or can it be ran on standard DCC?

Had I know you were there, I would have brought your Deltic body.Regards JD I was there as a Club Exhibitor.

Just for consideration, you could get the CS3/3+ and the L88/S88 to setup blocks for detection.

A real jigsaw puzzle for you Matt. Does the handset link with the box that was smelling of smoke controlling the blocks? Good luck. Happy Modelling

Thank you for such a wonderful video! It was lovely to meet you, and wasn't the show fabulous!! 🚂🚃🚃🚃

Interesting layout

Get a copper top to the funnel

Enjoyed the update. I take my hat off to you being able to fathom the half built layout of someone else and then begin to continue it. I too have an old Marklin set, non digital with the old type of M system stamped metal base track. I have laid a round the wall track parallel to my Hornby Dublo and Triang tracks as I like to run all the older trains that meant so much to me growing up in the 1960s. Await the next installment of your Marklin project with interest. All the best. Jim in Aust.

Great video. As the person who organised this exhibition (also part owner of southern scale models) This was the first one ive ever organised and apart from some small issues (catering being big one) it all went very well

I have to say that you do not suffer from the procrastination disease that I live with daily. I caught it when I retired 5 years ago, lol. Great little update, Jersey Bill

Loved the sound of the steam engine at the beginning of the video and the WWII scenes with the boats, ships, and destruction scenes were stellar. Did not know Golden Arrow existed so I added them to my list of manufacturers. I also liked the Dr. Who gold Dalek on the ramp, lol. The live steam trains were interesting, but I think the newer ones have radio controls, don't they? The drag line excavator had to have an operator somewhere and it looked like fun. The detail of the scenes especially the dock scene with the cobble stone streets was beyond comparison. I have to say that this is one time the sequel is better than the first video even though that was good also. Great tour and video, Jersey Bill

Great quality video as always.

Great videos of the show mate. I was attending with Bletchinghurst so didnt get to see much of the show. Was great to have a conversation with you as always. Some lovely film of our layout in here. Thank you👍

By the way, the Whitewebbs Museum of Transport will be on the BBC London News at 18:30 this evening.

Lovely video, my friend!! I know of two more model railway shows coming up in east Hertfordshire. 14 August - Lowewood Museum Model Railway Day. 25 August - Hoddesdon Model and Railway Club Modelling Extravaganza.

Nice video, met you briefly in the queue. You filmed my black live steam engine. Chris, at oolive steam, had just fixed it. Took him 3 hours. They are a great group. I'm glad you filmed the show. I did not have time to have a good look.

Great vid. My BBX has nearly the same hop-ups. I would recommend the rear damper bar.

Superb couple of videos of a great show at the Dockyard - you definitely have the talent for capturing the moment - so well done! I actually went to the show on the Saturday so it is nice to see the layouts again from the comfort of my armchair. Cheers for now Malcolm.

Some great layouts Matt. I have seen the WWII Military Dock layout but the WWI trenches layout is pretty impressive. You know that I run Tri-ang TT, it seems to be even harder to find anything TT120 here in Australia. Nothing on display at the shows. Just the odd outlet store with it. Thanks for sharing. Happy Modelling

This was my first ever show with Braughing (Braffing) & Standon layout and you've captured it wonderfully Matt. Thanks for the great camera work and also the very kind commentary comments. We did speak on the day but forgot to ask if you had a KZfaq channel ... but now I've found you and subscribed.

Thanks for capturing my new n gauge layout with such great low level shots. Great work and sorry we never got the chance to speak as we did at Whitewebbs last week.

I hope the dockyard becomes a regular venue for the Chatham show again.

Superb video you took there mate. Excellent layouts all round many thanks for sharing. All the best... Steve

Hi Matt Excellent video and as I was helping out at the show it’s enabled me to see what was there as I was mostly outside 😀😀 Cheers Kev

Good selection of different layouts

Enjoyed the video . As it brought back good memories , for me & my wife . It was our first get away & we took the tram ride to fleetwood . And stopped over in cleveleys on the way back . A really enjoyable day had . One day we hope to revisit that tram ride .

Good selection of layouts. It is noticeable in these days of DCC and 5 pole motors that the trains are crawling along at snail's pace whereas in the old days all the trains were rushing around the layouts at brake-neck speed! Thanks for uploading.

Some great layouts there Matt. Interesting location too. Happy Modelling

11:36 These such as Golden Eagle I think you said 7.1/4” gauge. The price is probably about right. But you need a truck to carry them. Thanks for sharing that video.