Opening the Hornby class 9F Evening Star

Pretty much as the title suggests - but I can also add... that this locomotive is seriously the most impressive locomotive I have when it comes to value for money.

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[CutterCub]

Don't know if someone has said this already, but the 9f's did have a flange-less centre driving wheel set, for the same reason, to get round tight curves

[InterCity82]

@CutterCub - yup, I did annotate the video accordingly.

[JAC4468]

Seen alot of your videos, and great review! on your next video could you get the locomotive pulling a train just to see what it's capeable of?

[InterCity82]

@JAC4468 she features at the end of 'In Praise of Steam' on my channel.

[hornbymanzpc]

every railroad model comes with sprung buffers. it said so in the hornby mag

[InterCity82]

@hornbymanzpc erm, no I have a 3F and Class 47 that do not have sprung buffers. Maybe the Hornby mag means all new Railroad models.

[CutterCub]

@EqualityScotland or any other 9Fs on the mainline! would be class to see one!

[EqualityScotland]

@CutterCub

This is also the reason why you don't see any 9Fs running on the mainline today. Network Rail are afraid that the flange-less wheels could cause a derailment on modern pointwork. Hence why Evening Star is cold at the moment.

[ClassA4Mallard]

@InterCity82

Not even all new ones come with them, the ones I know are the 9Fs, Flying Scotsman, the A4s and the county Class. Other ones do not as far as I know of.

[RhBNo412]

I sometimes like a bit of noise from a non-sound fitted loco, it adds to the realism.

[1995marines]

my favorite steam train you reviewed

[AstroTrainboy1174]

I don't like engines that are missing wheel flanges.

I once saw a lionel model and it was very nice but all the drive wheels were lifted off the track and didn't pick up electricity at all.

all the electrical pickup was from the tender and the 4 trucks in the back had a motor for drive.

suprisingly it pulled a lot of cars.

lionel did a cheap job for once

[Richmondmodelrailway]

Excellent review.....nice to see the motor in the loco. I had the tender power version of the 9F in black...and it was gutless...couldn't pull much at all!

[Ewan4meno2]

I have this model aswell. I got it from Hamleys when I last whent to london.

But I expected it to be Tender drive like the previous incarnations of this model.

but to my surpise it is loco drive and the tender is light. :) :P