PECKETT POWERED PACIFICS

Whether big powerful pacifics or pretty little Pecketts are your thing, then this is the video for you. There's even a famous 9F and a clapped out K1 featured for good measure.
Neville Grove would have offered a train spotters paradise had it been a real 1:1 location back in steam days. Trains hurtle by if stood on the low level station and thunder overhead whilst light engines clank back and forth between the coal drop and the engine shed which is only a stones throw from Platform 4.
However, all locos in this video are recent Ready to Run OO Gauge releases by ‪@HornbyModelRailways‬ Each has been weathered in the Neville Grove studio to make these excellent models even better. What engines can you spot?

[@alancharles6789]

Ye Gods I could almost smell it! That clanking of valve gear now sounds horrific yet it was just the way it was then! Amazing audio visual treat. So much to pause and study for any modeller. Brilliant! Best thing on “TV” this Christmas!

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks Steve for watching and for the generous comment. I love the clanking noise of loose motion, sounds almost as good to me as a loco at full regulator. Must have been quite a din at 75mph or would centrifugal forces make it quieter? 🤔 Merry Christmas, I hope you find plenty to watch over the holidays!

[@traintank1083]

Couldn’t agree more, mate, a year later. Only one God, there is, but still!

[@going2thedogs]

Great stuff. I could watch your layout for hours. Pure nostalgia…

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Wow, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@williammcavoywilliammcavoy]

great stuff merry christmas

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Many thanks, you too!

[@Miertreg1]

Nice 🛤️🚂🎥👍👍👍. Best regards Gert

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Many thanks Gert, merry Christmas 🎄

[@MrTBrearley]

A weathering masterclass and a video masterclass. The subtlety of the distressed wood of the Private Owner Wagons is so atmospheric. Great work

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Many thanks Mr T! A long time coming this video - I took the footage and even 95% edited back in March, just not had the chance to get it over the line till now!

[@garrburton3375]

Fabulous…… some of the most natural looking weathering I’ve seen. Your attention to detail and the realism achieved is excellent….. even down to the grease patches on the buffers…….. love it……👍

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed and managed to notice the little details too.

[@Britishbricks]

Wow. What a treat, the production for this video was amazing. Definitely one of my favourite of yours. Looking forward to the next one!

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks very much! More specific feedback will be gratefully received.

[@unixbadger]

7:03 That glow!

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Its really effective huh? One of the best I've seen on an OO gauge model, looks just right to me.

[@nige7577]

Superb as always Steve, you certainly put the effort in to make the perfect production with superb weathering and matching audio, always a pleasure to watch, cheers nige👍

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Many thanks Nige! Much effort yes - so your comment is much appreciated. However, I have the relative comfort of the studio and layout room compared to the sometimes bleak and unforgiving terrain and weather that you have to endure for your perfect productions!

[@edenbridgejunction7526]

Steve you have again made a golden video... it's like going back in time watching these epic clips. Cheers mate. Happy Xmas & new year . All the best from baz at edenbridge Junction 😊

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Hey Baz! Miss you on Insta buddy! Thanks very much, and merry Christmas to you and yours.

[@royston600]

Wonderful a pleasure to watch!

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thats great, thank you for watching and commenting.

[@steveadcock5855]

So pleased to have another Neville Grove episode to watch - fabulous! The Pecketts and wagons are great but I love your scruffy A2/3 Sun Castle and especially your filthy and rather menacing A2/2 Wolf of Badenock - both of those hugely impressive machines make the K1 look quite diminutive. Excellent Steve, very enjoyable, thanks for posting.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks Steve for the excellent comment and kind words, you’ve done very well to identify both A2’s! They are indeed huge locos and I really enjoy the ungainly, as you say menacing, appearance of the A2/2’s. It had to be filthy if was to join the NG roster!

[@PresidentBrony]

I love how real your trains look on video.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Awesome thanks! Careful weathering makes these superb models even better!

[@PresidentBrony]

Can wait to watch more of you videos.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Many thanks, there are several in the pipeline but in the meantime there are currently nearly 50 others already released on my channel.

[@Earthshaker513]

Been so long since we had one of these! Always enjoy the running session videos.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Glad you like them, plenty more to come, sorry about the wait this time!

[@gregmacdonald927]

Brilliant modelling and filming. Well done

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks Greg for your kind words, much appreciated.

[@theeventhorizon-valebridge9512]

As ever the NG video/audio treatment is superb and much appreciated. There's so much fodder posted up by others, it's painful! Regards Julian

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks Julian, glad you approve 👍

[@johnd8892]

The title of Peckett Powered Pacifics had me scratching my head. Surely not a motor swap or similar. But as the video mived on i saw the importance of coal delivery in powering the glamour machines. Well done as always, but did get me thinking about the limitations of tension lock couplings and rven three link for thst matter. Quite a bit of effort on your part to get realistic shunting movements on your part.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Haha yeah, so much coal was shipped around by the railways back in those days, and the Peckett's certainly played their part. Many thanks for watching and commenting John, glad you enjoyed it.

[@michaelmiller641]

Amazing filming and dubbing! Thanks for that!

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks Michael, glad you enjoyed it!

[@matthewellacott4769]

I love the videos, would be amazing to see what goes on in the storage yards! Would be fantastic to see

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

That’s great thanks Matthew, the storage yards are hidden beneath the upper level but perhaps I’ll share some footage one day 🤔

[@matthewellacott4769]

@@NEVILLEGROVE Fab! I'm fascinated to see how it all links together.

[@PresidentBrony]

Nice little engines. So cool.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

They're great little models these Hornby Pecketts.

[@rawstonemodelrailway]

Thought we were in for a Peckett race when they all lined up 😉 great video as always. ☺ 👍 🚂

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Ah yeah it did look a bit like that! Maybe that's a great idea for the future! Thanks Gaz.

[@phil36310]

Just wonderful and most enjoyable. Thanks for sharing !

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Cheers Phil, thanks for watching! 👍

[@Alextrains502]

Good work love your work please keep making videos

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thank you very much, I will. In fact I have many in the pipeline already, just awaiting editing...

[@lucasquintanilla1673]

@@NEVILLEGROVE where in Britain do you imagine your layout takes place? Do you like to think that it’s in Yorkshire the south of England or in Wales or Scotland?

[@northernblue1093]

Very enjoyable, lovely work.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

That’s great, thank you. Glad you enjoyed.

[@septiccalling8341]

Absolutely delightful once again..... such a pleasure to watch! Oh, and a Merry Christmas to you and yours! 🎅

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Many thanks I'm grateful you watched and glad enjoyed. Have a Merry Christmas too!

[@amp9930]

It's wonderful to see your superb work again, you've made us wait so long ! Well it seems a long time. Looking forward to some more soon. I hope to ask you to weather me some engines in the new year.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

It has been much longer than I hoped, but there are plenty more in the pipeline as I have lots of footage already that requires editing.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Excellent, any of your locos would be most welcome, I look forward to hearing from you!

[@amp9930]

@@NEVILLEGROVE that's good news. I look forward to them.

[@tommartin5]

Top drawer Steve! 👏 👏 👏

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Hey Tom great to hear from you, thanks!

[@hermitageroad4713]

Great layout

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Glad you like it! Thank you.

[@BulletNoseBetty]

If this was any more life like, it would be actually real life. Excellent video!

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Haha thank you very much, thanks for watching and commenting 👍

[@andrewdking]

Brilliant, just forwarded it to my mate in Canada who has the B2 The Earle

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Excellent thanks Andrew, and thanks for sharing much appreciated. The B2 is a cracking little model, so is the W4 for that matter.

[@andrewdking]

@@NEVILLEGROVE Have you had any problems with the B2s. I bought him it as a better loco for his wife's traditional Canadian Christmas Village display. He added a Hornby Santa's Express train set to it. The loco soon started smoking and failed. He sent it back to Hornby UK for investigation. They sent him a replacement. That too duly went up in smoke, so back it went. He was sent another one and so far it's been ok except for slowing on the corners. Probably out of gauge or the six wheels are struggling on 1st radius curves 🤷 My next video #095 shows it all.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

No not had a problem with any of the several Pecketts that have passed through here. Most reliable in my experience. Sorry to hear about your friends problems. Long shot, but it’s not to do with the control system is it / electrical supply? Another thing is that you shouldn’t really run a DC locomotive on digital. If it’s left stationary for more than a few seconds it can go up in smoke as you describe. But digital control seems unlikely if it’s a simple setup for a Christmas display 🤔

[@andrewdking]

@@NEVILLEGROVE The Santa's Express train set is a basic dc set. The difference being, its one with a power supply transformer set for US/Canadian mains electricity, not UK/Europe. So the 12V dc to the track shouldn't be any different. I suspect it's the chip inside the loco, all crammed into the small space at the front of the chassis block. The standard of soldering isn't good. There were a lot of emails between my mate and Hornby which I was party to as an intermediary. Their quality department got involved because of the multiple failures. Hopefully, Hornby will learn a bit and tweak the design layout internally to prevent electrical shorts in the future.

[@goupigoupi6953]

I've been watching for a while now, is this in any way related to Pacific steam locomotives, however remotely?

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks for watching, well there’s atleast 5 Pacific locos in the video including an A2/2, A2/3, A3, Clan and a Britannia. Some of which are seen going to and from the coaling stage which are replenished by the Peckett hauled coal train. If it’s specifically Gresley Pacific’s you’d like to see in action on the mainline then check out my other video - “The Greatest Gresley Gathering”

[@NicholasMarion-pl9bm]

Here's an idea for you: Big Four Steam Locomotive Parade

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Your modelwork is nice, and the sound editing is top-notch. However, the way this is put together is confusing. The beginning sequence, where the A3 is reversing while another large engine passes on the elevated line and "Albert" is entering the station with a coal train, is particularly puzzling and does not match with the sequence that immediately follows; it seems to be an out-of-place duplicate of the same scene later in the video where it actually makes sense in the order of events.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks for watching and for your observation, and I take your point. The first few clips are like an intro using some highlights that appear later. From 50 seconds the proper main sequence starts with the blue Peckett. Next time I need to think of a way of making it clear that its an intro and separate...

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

@@NEVILLEGROVE A title card after the teaser section would be a good idea, and/or some sort of obvious scene transition like a wipe, a dissolve, or a fade-to-black.

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

I did include a wipe for that very reason at the end of the teaser section, not something I would normally do otherwise. Adding a card is a good idea, I’ll see if KZbin will allow, thanks 👍👍👍

[@EMEME27655]

Betaful layout

[@NEVILLEGROVE]

Thanks very much 👍