37. Review: Hornby's New Class 800 R3762 LNER 5 Car "AZUMA"

[@petertate5741]

Great to have you back mate.Great review,all the best 👍🇬🇧

[@moorlandmodelrailwayandy]

Nice update. I've just got my Celebrating Scotland azuma from hornby. Like you I'm pretty pleased with it. I'm sound chipping mine, able to fit a 22x13x6 bass enhanced speaker in it from roads and rails. I'll look forward to watching more from you, just subscribed cheers Andy

[@grah84mck]

Nice review got mines they are amazing models.

[@warrencapon6442]

Love the review, however can you tell me that the 5 cars can run in either direction, considering there is one driving car and while it can lead what about reversing, is it just as comfortable as going "backwards". And un hooking. Now I have the Hornby Class 370 and it is amazing, as the driving car is in the middle of 5 cars it is very comfortable going in either direction, oh and it tilts into the turns, pretty cool. The middle drive car has a inter locking type of connection to each car while the other cars are just a drop on type, but very fiddly and patience required, hence my question about the coupling.

[@theengineshed359]

No issues when running in either direction. The power car has sufficient weight and traction to push the unit along at a good speed along most track geometry.

[@Oorail]

Great to see you back! The Azuma 800 is great, unfortunately one of my coaches had the lights fail, so I've got to open it up and see whats up. No real point sending it back to Hornby from the USA with the shipping costs, at least they will send me parts :) I don't think Hornby are doing the extra coaches for Azuma 800. They appear to be doing them for the Azuma 801/2, so R40350 goes with R3965 (unreleased Azuma 801/2). If you don't care the running numbers don't match, it'll work. Its such a nice model though. Looking forward to the TPE livery ones hopefully they'll show up sooner rather than later! :)

[@theengineshed359]

You're right matching numbers is not the end of the world no one will see it as it runs around the layout anyhow. Hopefully, you get your coach running again nothing worse than a dodgy purchase.

[@chrisj6321]

I have one in the post on the way from the UK as well. Hopefully its a good one. I have a 9 car pendalino on pre order as well

[@theengineshed359]

Just a tip with the Pendolino, get yourself a good decoder and ballast the power car. I used an old brass rod and it performs beautifully!

[@Lotty19]

Great video and review. With the light bleed issue, seems to vary from model to model. Mine was bad in the power car, ok in the dummy. Was a 10 minute fix with some black paint. Body comes off really easily with no breakage etc. once this is dealt with its a top notch model in my view.

[@wapphigh5250]

Dude do you have light bleed on the engines and coaches?

[@theengineshed359]

I haven't run the train in a perfectly dark setting, but no obvious light bleed in my model that I can see.

[@wapphigh5250]

@@theengineshed359 Cool.. would you mind checking ? I have one coming from UK (I'm also in Aus) and some other reviews on this show terrible light bleed (Search this out) ...it will be a PITA to fix (pulling off the shell, internal painting and risk of damage to wiring)..partic as it also appears to affect the power cars... and you know the drill here I am sure mate being so far away to send models back... Cheers

[@theengineshed359]

@@wapphigh5250 Cant certainly appreciate the concern. I wIll have a look and get back to you as soon as I can.

[@theengineshed359]

@@wapphigh5250 Had a look at this model and the light bleed issue, and unfortunately it is there. However in my case its worst on the dummy end than anywhere else on the set. That being said is a fairly minor fix, but Hornby should have picked this up in the QA stage of manufacturing.

[@adamoldridge]

@@theengineshed359 Would you mind sharing a few images when you get a mo if you don't mind? I'm currently feeding this back to Hornby to see if they can make improvements, and other examples would be handy. No worries if not, Cheers, Adam

[@dallasthomas9298]

Welcome back, I wondered what happened to you. Presume you live in QLD. Great video can't wait for your next ones. Can highly recommend the new Bachmann Class 24 and 47 they are excellent locos. I live in Paris (from Sydney) so its great to get some Oz content. Take care

[@theengineshed359]

Thanks mate! 47 is on the list.. but managed to grab a few class 20s prior to Xmas so will be sure to feature those two very soon! Cheers... Ben.

[@PlatformONE]

It was hard to hear it, with the music.

[@johnallison8888]

You dont need music when your talking

[@theengineshed359]

The sound of my voice alone is enough of a put off for me. Music or not, i'm sure my review was clear.