Today I have a couple of items to show you, firstly I have something quite special to me, a Bachmann model of an H2 Atlantic Locomotive running the LB&SCR (London Brighton & South Coast Railway) livery. This is special not only because it is so lovely in the splendid LB&SCR umber colours, but is very local to me, living only a few miles from Brighton it was designed and built in the long gone locomotive works that used to exist there. The other thing that makes this model especially stunning is that I decided to buy the factory fitted DCC sound version, I will include below a short video of this locomotive on a rolling road and demonstrating some of the sound effects you get with this marvel of technology.
The second item is another of the Hornby Train Packs, this one being the Bournemouth Belle, as well as featuring the beautiful West Country locomotive it also has like the Belmond Pullman set I posted about recently a set of 3 Pullman coaches complete with interior lighting. But it gets better, not only does it have these which of course I can combine with the other lit coaches I have, but it also has a very special Pullman Observation car, again super detail with lighting and even sprung buffers (I forgot to mention that on the other set lol). These observation cars go for silly money as they were only made in short runs twice as far as I know and only once in super detail with lighting. They were briefly available in this train pack and also as an individual coach to be added to existing trains. Naturally this makes them pretty valuable even second hand.
Anyway here you go, enjoy!
Here's the H2 Atlantic, complete with some blurb about the locomotive type history and also a list of the sound functions available...
Here's the Bournemouth Belle pack and Pullman Observation Car.
The second item is another of the Hornby Train Packs, this one being the Bournemouth Belle, as well as featuring the beautiful West Country locomotive it also has like the Belmond Pullman set I posted about recently a set of 3 Pullman coaches complete with interior lighting. But it gets better, not only does it have these which of course I can combine with the other lit coaches I have, but it also has a very special Pullman Observation car, again super detail with lighting and even sprung buffers (I forgot to mention that on the other set lol). These observation cars go for silly money as they were only made in short runs twice as far as I know and only once in super detail with lighting. They were briefly available in this train pack and also as an individual coach to be added to existing trains. Naturally this makes them pretty valuable even second hand.
Anyway here you go, enjoy!
Here's the H2 Atlantic, complete with some blurb about the locomotive type history and also a list of the sound functions available...
Here's the Bournemouth Belle pack and Pullman Observation Car.
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