Heljan Class 33/2 Review Having Fit Cab Lighting, Crew & Hornby HM7000 HM|DCC Sound | ml50

[@Teesbrough]

Lovely video, thanks. Your positive style is infectious! One small correction if I may. When the line was electrified in the 1980s the problem tunnels were not widened. Instead, the track was singled through them and fitted onto a slab base. The works prompted the CEP EMUs, which could now reach Hastings, being repainted into the short-lived ‘Jaffa Cake’ livery. Back in 1978 I stayed a weekend with a work colleague at Tunbridge Wells, travelling back on Monday morning. TW Central commuters had mastered forming very precise queues where they knew each of the doors on the Hastings DEMU would stop along the platform. An amazing sight!

[@modeloco]

@@Teesbrough Thank you for the information and the picture I used seems to show this, just as you say, which had me rather puzzled as I researched it. I’m so glad you’ve put the record straight and I’m puzzled no more. I’ll add some subtitles to help rectify in due course. Remember as kids we used to position ourselves on the platform like statues, second guessing where the train would stop and the winner was the one who was in line with a door as it came to a halt. I became rather good at this due to me working out where Buffer stops and platform flag cracks were. A memory I’d forgotten until your recollections of TV Central staff. As for my persona on camera well 😂 everything has an opposite apart from ❤️ some say. I’m certainly discovering far more than I ever thought on this journey when I began. I really appreciate your kind words as I try different ways to create the unknown and express the natural joy as it arises through Music, Modelling, Manifestation or Modeloco ☀️

[@rogerwindsor2130]

Why did you not fit magnetic couplings, Would have been a lot better than butchering the locos 3 link couplings,And worked better than those couplings you fitted.

[@modeloco]

@@rogerwindsor2130 Hi Roger, The answer is quite simply that whilst I love the magnetic ones on certain rakes, I will eventually begin using the new Bachmann equipped, auto-uncoupling locos on my layout, probably starting with the Class 09 next year and that means front brakes or, leading coaches will still need the usual standard small D’’s, even if they require being brass so as not to effect the electro-magnetic lift on rolling stock. Any magnetic coupling would still need to be cranked in order to match up to the Heljan Class 33/2 design and I don’t really care for the sudden clunk as you near on shorter rakes. Of course you still need the hand of god to uncouple, whereas rakes or blocks of 3’s can stay together. It does look worse close up in 4K but, once on the layout it’s hardly an issue for me, even though it pained me to snip back. Hope it doesn’t cause nightmares. Interesting that butchers and surgeons wear almost identical white costumes🙏

[@1701_FyldeFlyer]

Any YT channel that runs and intro to 64 seconds deserves a thumbs down.

[@modeloco]

@1701_FyldeFlyer I’ve chaptered the video, you can skip over it all with one click, to the bit you want. The intro shows running footage of this class 33/2 in action. You don’t have to wait and the bits in between are there to help others, who don’t know what the channel is about, a chance to see that I’m into dual scaling and being creative. The history section run alone taking hours of research, in the same regard, deserves a thumbs up doesn’t it? Happy Modelling and thank you for getting in touch 🙏