Didcot Railway Centre - new arrival

Heljan possibly? Haven’t had chance to Google yet.

 

So Deltics were a bad idea, were they?

 

Says it all really

 

I love a Deltic, but the fact they only lasted 20 ish years tells a bit of a story. The 444/450s around me are the same age and are barely run-in…

Simon

 

Hornby. But there are those on 19th Century Railways Facebook group that are exercised that the Hornby model is essentially "as preserved" but is being passed off to be "as built", with false haycock firebox, wrong length boiler barrel and packaged with 1930s replica Liverpool and Manchester carriages that bear little resemblance to genuine carriages of that era ...

Tom

 

https://www.hattons.co.uk/17874/hor..._lion_in_network_southeast_livery/stockdetail

 

I would have thought that this was the 'Lion' locomotive mentioned in the conversation above.
Heljan 4005-PO19 BRCW prototype D0260 "Lion" in white livery with 5 gold (hattons.co.uk)

The prototype that stood out for me was HS4000 'Kestrel'. I was at Kings Cross to see the Deltics and what came as a total surprise to me was Kestrel waiting to depart with a service train to Sheffield. Superb loco. <BJ>
British Rail HS4000 - Wikipedia