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The Class 60 By Hornby!Our train of the week is the popular Class 60 by Hornby! This is an excellent model all round, with brilliant detail in all departments, with smooth running. working lights, and an 8Pin DCC socket ready to allow easy decoder fitting for DCC equipped layouts. It is available in multiple liveries, with DB Cargo and GBRF Variants currently in stock, with more liveries on the way as part of Hornby's 2022 range.The current tooling in use by Hornby offers significant detail adva …

Hornby 2022 Range - Our Top Picks.At the start of this week, Hornby announced their highly anticipated 2022 Range in 00 Scale. There are many great new products that cater for modellers all over the country, with modern image multiple units such as the Class 745 in Greater Anglia livery and Class 423 EMUs in Southern and Southwesttrains Liveries being announced alongside the London, Midland and Scottish railways experimental 'Turbomotive' 4-6-2 locomotive. Also announced was an expande …

In todays blog post we are taking a look at the fantastic BR193 electric locomotive, produced by Roco in HO Scale, in the vibrant Flixtrain livery.Taking a look at the box, we can see it makes a change from the standard Hornby packaging, it is much higher quality, and very professional, it has a feel of a high standard products. It is similar to Dapol packaging, however it does not feature the image of the loco featured on the front of the box, and is in a deeper navy blue colour, with orange Ro …

Hi everyone and welcome to a review of one of the smaller steam locomotives produced by Hornby - The A1X Terrier!As always we have a standard Hornby box, featuring pictures of the model as well as the various Hornby locos and product codes. This is an OO Gauge locomotive, and is ready to be fitted with a 6-Pin DCC Decoder. There is a small set of detail parts included in the box, which can be fitted as per your requirements.The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) A1 Class 0-6-0 …

Hornby starter sets are a great way to get started in the model railway hobby, but how do you set one up?Setting up a Hornby train set is a really simple process, everything you need is included with the starter set - controller, track, power supply, locomotive and wagons.To begin with connect all the track together to form a loop, generally a train set comes with a power track, a straight track of the same size as the power track and then 8 curves. All you need to do is slot them together, but …