HM207 Dapol Hawthorn Leslie

Dapol has delivered its first industrial steam locomotive, with the arrival of the characterful Hawthorn Leslie 0-4-0ST for ‘OO’ gauge. We inspect this diminutive new release.

[@warrenlehmkuhleii8472]

A lovely model, they produced one named Asbestos, so if you know anyone who works cleaning up old houses, you may have the perfect gift.

[@wealdhurstmodelrailway9666]

Bought the "Invincible" in beautiful claret. It is my favourite of all the locos I own (and I own two limited edition Bachmann Lord Nelsons!)

[@tynedock]

Excellent Loco, I have the sound fitted version and it runs like a dream!

[@drevo50]

It's a fantastic model, mine runs like a dream, even over dead frog points!

[@chickenbites8877]

I bought two DCC fitted, neither worked out the box and had to send them back to the retailer, who, confirmed the fault.

[@stevenperry7493]

Well as cash is tight that will be my Christmas present from my wife ,all I got to do is let her know .

[@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204]

Cool video nice loco

[@terrier_productions]

Since looking at Sam’s Trains’ review, I now regret cancelling my pre-order..

[@IronHorseRailways]

Aye, love mine❤

[@hornbymag]

And the weathering on your looks great too! 😊😊

[@Simon-Davis]

Fundamentally its a fantastic model, but with a few caveats. They haven't catered for most of the detail variations, so for most of the liveries produced the model is not of the right prototype. Some of the liveries are also rather suspect, pretty and well applied, but still nowhere near how they should look. 'Asbestos' and 'NCB no8' being probably the furthest from being prototypical with very wrong livery applied and also incorrect details, an incorrect saddle tank in the case of no8. Models like 'Invincible' and 'Marston, Thompson & Evershed Ltd' (special ed from Footplate models) are nigh on perfect though. For the money they are fantastic little engines. Its just a shame they spoiled some of the models with poor research as the ones they got right are among the best steam engines available in 00.

[@philiplimerick2794]

Hi Simon. Could you elaborate on the NCB liveried loco. What is not correct about the detail and what was incorrect about the livery. I was thinking about getting this loco for my layout.

[@Simon-Davis]

@@philiplimerick2794 The real No8 was built by Hawthorn Leslies later guise as RSH, as such it was an updated design. The most obvious deviation is that the water fill hatch is at the other end of the saddle tank which pushes the dome further back along the boiler. The hatch and all of the steps and associated handrails on the model are at the wrong end. The buffers are the wrong type, as is the smokebox door, and the shape of the chassis is different as the model has guard irons while the real one didn't. I can fully understand Dapol not tooling for differences like these in order to keep costs down, as such that marks the livery as the biggest error on that model for me. The livery should be the same dark rich blue as Rapido produced on their Hunslet 'Holly Bank No3'. Google image search "RSHN 7807" for a photo of the real thing.