High Quality Flagships! Hornby Class 43 HST in GWR and First Great Western liveries - Review

[@joshuaW5621]

I love how the HSTs look in these liveries.

[@JenniferEKirk]

They do suit them.

[@Brettski777]

The HSTs are and always will be my favourite loco. Although I have BR Blue and Yellows and Virgins, the pride of my collection is the executive livery. The set has cab detailing and driver, cab lighting , Retro fitted LED direction lamps , Can motor and 8 pin DCC conversion . A superb way to breath life back into some elderly Hornby tooling.

[@JenniferEKirk]

Absolutely. Always great to do a few upgrades to an older models.

[@JamesPetts]

I approve of HSTs. I have fond memories of seeing these on the Western region growing up, and using them to travel to Swansea to see my grandparents in the 1990s.

[@SwindonJunction]

Defo my fav Diesel locos. i have a few analogue version and a couple of newer DCC variants on my layout. great review thanks for sharing

[@JenniferEKirk]

Thanks for watching!

[@ScottishNSRailFan]

Enjoyed your presentation. I do love the HSTs and have 31 pairs in my collection. All bar one has sound with the latest sets fitted with HM7000. The latest set to join my collection is R2701X and has still to get sound.

[@JenniferEKirk]

Thanks!

[@GinoACosta]

Jennifer, first, wonderful channel and videos! I'm from the States.Second,may I suggest in future review you do a pulling power test? I want to know just how powerful a loco is. Maybe a guesstimate on how many cars it can pull as well. Love and thank you so much!❤

[@74aamer]

I love the hst and so glad they have brought it back on preorder and the 125 hst engines which I’ve ordered though one is £406

[@carolinecleaveley]

did not like the hst when it came out as the brakes smelt and took over from the peaks i loved. However after all these years its earned my respect. I cried when i watched the last GWR one come through stonehouse.

[@Kev5565]

Very nice and well presented by you of course. I agree with what you say about the doors but maybe only see the point for them on a shunter working in a yard, the spring loading of them is even more pointless in my opinion. I hope to see re-tooled swallow livery with re-tooled mk3 coaches. Keep up the good work.

[@JenniferEKirk]

Thanks!

[@jameshardy4354]

The reason the lights are different on the second hst set the lights got changed

[@EngelsNederfiele]

The original APT test bed was a gas turbine unit, no source of data viewed has indicated any fitment of gas turbines to HSTs, trails of Mirlees Blackstone engines were carried out but they failed to be beneficial, this was also found with class 37s fitted with engines from this company. SNCF had a fleet of Class T 2000 gas turbine powered multiple units which proved expensive to run and also towards the end highly problematic.

[@mikeburnitt403]

The main issue with the MB190 engines was they were set at 2500hp which caused the Alternator and traction motors to overheat and catch fire.

[@dilwich]

Great review Jen.

[@mels1811]

Excellent video Jenny 😀

[@markfitzsimons2414]

Love the hst

[@brianfearn4246]

Great review, there's no detail in the guards compartment, just a plastic peg .. just for interest the hornby DVT has a small seat by the luggage area window 😊

[@JenniferEKirk]

Cool, thanks!

[@carolinecleaveley]

waiting for the TT120 ones to appear.

[@shakeyhandsshedmodelrailwa2494]

UNTIL RECENTLY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE LAST TRAIN I'D HAVE BOUGHT , but now i'm older and they are slipping into history i have one of the originals in original livery

[@francismewton3276]

Unfortunately your not keen on these HST but I do hope they grow on you Jenny ,I remember these coming into service and no dought see them faced out altogether ,just remember these wonderful class 43s set the fastest diesel speed ,,my favourite livery was the blue ! First great western and after many years I've just started to get this set .the HST in GWR green castle class not bad x

[@ianobrien6908]

Good review of the class 43, always a pleasing model. By the way, I spotted the Tardis (haha) :)

[@1701_FyldeFlyer]

I really dont get why other manufacturers, accurascale, bachmann, heljan etc have not brought their own HST to market.

[@JenniferEKirk]

I guess it would be difficult going head to head with this model.

[@GregPalmer1000]

The prototype was 1972 but the production units were 1975

[@hamshackleton]

Ciggy packet livery - to me that is the black and gold colours that Lotus used. - - Who will be first to 'dirty' them up with a dead bird splat on the nose?

[@JAKE_CS]

i have a fleet of the original Hornby ones i love them but they are miles away from the newest ones.

[@1701_FyldeFlyer]

Should give them the same number. If you dont, you'd have to do a 'consist' via the DCC controller which limits the dcc address id.

[@JamesPetts]

The Inter-City executive version would look splendid on Wear Yard (especially if you have fun and mix in some blue and grey carriages into the set as would have been the case for many trains in the 1980s), but note that this earlier version will be like the "fag packet" type and will not have working fans.

[@Yorkie4412]

Jenny when you dcc program the power and dummy car do you give both the same address or do you treat them as 2 separate locomotives thanks

[@JenniferEKirk]

Treat them as the same loco then they work together in unison.

[@Yorkie4412]

Many thanks for your help Jen I was not sure cheers

[@PaulGarwood]

Can the HM 7000 Bluetooth decoders be fitted to this?

[@JenniferEKirk]

Yes they can.

[@user-cm8kr4dl4e]

Would you know what motor drives the Hornby GWR High speed train in green livery. mine is burn't out. its part of the Hornby R2130 train set. Cheers Gary.

[@jeffheins6624]

My only gripe is that the nice swallow livery coaching stock is so bloody expensive

[@karennickel2356]

Does the HM 7000 decoder work all the light and fan functions?

[@mikeburnitt403]

I see Hornby are still using the wrong bogies, the axle end bearings should be ordinary bearings on all axle ends and not the steel plate style on half of them which was only fitted to the XC, LNER , MML and (I think) GC power cars much later on in their lives when the WSP system was upgraded, FGW/GWR power cars were never fitted with the upgrade, except 43053 and 43056 which had it when transferred to FGW. Plenty of other small detail wrong on all 4 but considering its Hornby and a diesel its still pretty good, and yes I have bought both of these and the blue/yellow ones.

[@paddylee8434]

Love the HST and review. Would there be any chance of a JK3 kettle free channel

[@JenniferEKirk]

Still building up the JK2 channel first!

[@1Z50railtourinfo]

Have you get any Mk3 coaches yet Jenny?

[@MadPolishVulcan]

Sorry about this …. I😮hate it myself, but it’s ‘aitch’ not ‘haitch

[@ianp45]

Seems a waste of money to include a working fan that doesn’t get seen unless you’re standing above it.