OK, well the website does have some extra details on the Hornby 2008 range, but I'm wondering how accurate they are? For instance, the British Rilways T9s are listed as being available only in Green. Apart from the early 'British Railways' wording on the tender after nationalisation, I thought T9s were always in mixed traffic black??
I think it's a great shame that Hornby have chosen to duplicate the 75xxx
4MT against Bachmann's one. A quick squizz of MRE Mag may say that Hornby started theirs two years previously, but that sounds very fishy to me (other locos haven't taken anything like so long). The 82xxx and 84xxx prairie tanks would have been better choices IMHO. Plus as most of my Standards are Bachmann ones, I'd stick with theirs for consistency of general appearance (and it'll probably be heavier anyways, so better able to haul heavier trains. Hornby's Black Five can't pull the skin off a rice pudding, compared with Bachy's Standard 5MT ;-)Still, the Maunsell Brake Compostie is now making an appearance, so that's useful. I think I could *almost* say that I have enough SR and BR(S) to last me a lifetime now. The only locos that I'd appreciate in RTR form would be a U (Bachmann, please?) and an S15... Anything else I will have a go at kitbuilding (a Wills Q and a DJH S&DJR 7F are already purchased, though I've yet to start on them :-)