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Cute dog!

I was filming on the opposite platform to where you were at Dorchester West.

I think I will add a Leader to my collection this year

A fine looking engine and nicely demonstrated.

I've noticed the whistles are missing of yours too.

Tis a cracking model, (my 65th b/day present to myself), just needs a good run in. I have been involved in heavy engineering & spent 30 odd years in the restoration & upkeep of a few of Mr Bulleids unconverted Pacific’s in 12” - ft. I can confidently & wholeheartedly refute all the rubbish that has been written about them!! The valve gear is a wonderful piece of kit when you understand it. 30 oiling points on an original too as opposed to 98 on the 3 cyl Britannia’s (rebuilds). Don’t believe all you’ve read since the ol chaps (footplatemen & workshop staff), I dealt with thought the world of ol Bulleid. Salisbury & Exmouth Junc loved em! I am now looking forward after 40 yrs of waiting to get stuck in to my oo layout. KR models have been very good at responding to some issues I’ve had so I can’t & won’t knock them, considering it’s not their fault. They promptly reply to all my e mails with effective responses. Looks like the whistles missing tho on one end of the model in the vid? With oil firing the ol Leader would have been a goer, boiler on centre line then & Bulleid said if only he’d had thought of the design of the turf burner bogies sooner, Leader would have been so fitted. Lots of politics & jealousy between the big four. Bulleid was a man who was ahead of the field & simply ran out of time! The war didn’t help him much either!! So 9 outa 10 for KR models & their Leader, from me!!😃

Lovely ex SR loco

At least yours arrived all in one piece. Various items had broken off mine and one of the wheels was loose. Still waiting for a response from KR Models...

I'm absolutely blown away that there's a ready to run model of this available, model railways aren't doing so badly these days.

Good job

THE "LEADER" - PROBABLY BETTER KNOWN AS THE PHANTOM !!! First Review of a model loco ! Mmmph but a type (The Leader Class) that in reality made a few test runs and got the "Riddles" chop. And the other four under construction were sent to the nearest scrap heap, pronto! So what can be done in reality with a Model, of a design that virtually no one ever saw ! And when it did go out on test had to be confined almost solely to the backwaters of the "Oxted" line, hauling a train of empty carriages. To keep it out of the way, as it often broke down ! Bulleid was as usual "pushing out the boundaries". By incorporating things like "Sleeve Valves" that had very little previous testing in any Railway vehicle. Barring the limited testing using a converted H1 4-4-2 Atlantic. For limited experiments with Sleeve Valves. A Good idea, but too late in the day, when you had people like Riddles in charge, who were quite obviously wedded to the concept of LMS style, traditional simple outside two cylinder types. Hence the BR Standards he effectively developed. Riddles' fundamental flaw "He couldn't think outside the box". So O. V. S. Bulleid literally went west, all the way to Inchicore and CIE in Dublin. Were he started designing another eventual flop. The Peat Burning loco, another pseudo Diesel look alike ! Bah, stick a few more Hornby Bulleid Pacifics (Spam Cans) on your layout. Just as the Southern Region did, in place of the promised Leaders. 140 Pacifics should fill up your layout, and of course the Hornby models, won't suffer from the "Chain driven Valve gear" problems of the real thing breaking down, or catching fire, as was their party trick (38 caught fire in 1953 for example). Interestingly Bulleid said to A.H. Peppercorn (LNER CME) Quote "Pep all you have to do is design an express passenger loco with FIVE (5) wheels and your name will go down in History" Unquote. Peppercorn being a serious designer, was of course horrified at such a remark !!! Happy Modelling 😀

Looked to be slowing down on the curves? Very long loco

Not bad for a Sunday, nicely put together 👍🏻

Great video 👍 Ipswich Never dissapoints , great job on catching 66414 twice 👍

Fantastic as always mate!☺☺

Excellent video. The shot of 90041+9040 on the intermodal leaving am I right in thinking he didnt spad although the signal was red.... or was that for another line?

OOooh, and Duchess of Hamilton tender derail!! What a shocker!!!

The shots of Union of South Africa departing TM were amazing! Would have loved to have seen her trying Filton bank with that load! Super video!

Oh, I've seen these on RTT, but I assumed these would be MPVs. I'll have to look out for them 👍

Great vid 👍 and I have just subbed to u

I was a Fitter/RSI based at Westbury diesel depot around the time of the video. Thanks for sharing, brought back happy memories.

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. Liked and Subbed. Cheers, Andy from Shelvington.

excellent video!

Where do the LPG tanks disappear to when the train is stood near the terminal gate before departure?

Great footage thank you for sharing this 👍

Nice vid. Awesome getting the anniversary 70. Good tohear Yoshi still hasnt lost his bark :)

Compared to now this era was great . People spotting today really ishe so little choice . My interest in railways is predominantly stuff like this wuen we had proper big engines , Freifgt , mail and lord of other things to look at !

Class 59 in original Yeoman livery and no graffiti on the wagons

I remember a DMU drag by, actually I think it was 47079, on this very line! Maybe it was that very same train!!! 😂

Ah, sitting on the Post Office trolleys at the end of platform 5 ... Nice parallel departure by 47537 & 47626.

Great video

excellent really liked this lots memories thank you

I'm loving this video, thank you for sharing

Fucking hell, I wouldnt be getting under there like that shunter did at 20:57, he's braver than me!

Brilliant, Temple Meads as I remember it :).

Nice bit of 47 clag at the end!!

Very good, all the post and parcel traffic gone. I worked on locos and TPO carriages at Canton . Best days are gone thats for sure

Enjoyed that, from a time when watching trains was interesting.

Fascinating video! I miss the old parcels & mail trains with all the shunting and re-sorting of vans at main stations. On some trains all the vans of a consist could end up at different places hundreds of miles apart, on other parcels trains. It was all timed to connect in a fascinatingly complex pattern that had evolved over time. I don't think anyone or computer program could now re-invent it from scratch, so basically now it's gone it's lost forever. Sad. Incidently, that last bit was fun. A truely meteoric acceleration up the hill on a DMU. Then we see why - the Class 47 on the front. Had the DMU failed?

57303 was a great suprise!

Shame that they scrapped all of these iconic units, as they could have saved them for railtours. One powercar still remains though, so maybe they can pair it with MK3 coaches and convert it into a DBSO.

Fantastic memories 👏👏

nice to meet you at parkstone that day haha

When EMD 710 has a love marriage with a 4 stroke ALCo 😂😂😂

Hi. Lovely video, but that's not the NMT, just another test train. But it's still a nice video to watch. Thanks

Fantastic footage as always mate!☺

Absolutely brilliant video. Took my right back to the good old days of Blackpool 🚊 🚎 🚋

Questionable 8 of them operational in 92? 8 & 15 were off the books bought by Pete Waterman, 29 seized the power unit in December, 30 lasted to Feb. So it was sort of 5 Class 50s come Jan 1992, 7 was back with bits from 46, 33 had a make over from Feb to April, 50/D400 had a generator swap, 30 worked until February and as I said they managed to seize the PU on 29 in Jan.

That's a lot of people 😃 nicely done as always Andrew 👏

92 dope