Glad you like it, and do recommend it, is a little fiddly connecting them together but is much easier than the Arnold Brighton Belle! But it's a very nice model, very smooth runner and quite easy to DCC it as well.
James. Excellent review! Sometimes I wish I had gone for more modern image, but I've set my layout firmly in 1947/48 South London. So lots of steam and some EMU's, more needed. Have a great Christmas. Pete.
Ta very much Pete, And I mostly went with it due to the livery! Do plan on having a go at making some EMUs sometime, though got a long list of steam engines to work through first! Hope you have a lovely Christmas too!
Nice looking train James - I cannot make up my mind if I can see passengers inside? or maybe it is just the profile of the seating! As for the price, well that is down to the individual purchaser to make up their minds! Generally prices are high these days and they are certainly not toys with manufacturers knowing they are targeting people with disposable incomes. In this economic climate - prices are rising generally to astonishing levels. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed the 319 Malcolm, and unfortunately there's no passengers inside, would be the seating, the end cars do have proper interiors where as the centre two it's just the window line as the motor and PCB are below that. And do know what you mean for prices, I sold off some models which I didn't really want anymore to help afford the 319, do think it's a wonderful model but unless it's a DC EMU or something else Southern in the future I'm gonna save my money! Again glad you enjoyed the video!
I have both the Thameslink and NSE ones they are great models however it seems guagemaster controllers keep frying the light diodes so id be careful of that (had 4 go so far). Great model tho
Cheers for letting me know, I'm currently using the Bachmann controller and it seems happy with that one, though my only other controller is the Hornby Select which I'm saving for another layout. Hoping that it'll be happy with that one but will be mindful of the lights for other controllers!
Hello, I have just started on my first ever N gauge layout after giving up my 00 gauge layout it's going to get some getting used to been smaller than previous trains and layout. Do you own any Kato products I hear they are quite good? Been recently in Rails of Sheffield it seems train sets are cheaper than buying just one loco I am sure that Rails had a five car DMU for £174 it looked quite nice it was a new item not second hand hoping to go back soon for a proper look. Peter from up North in Chesterfield.
Hello Peter, Unfortunately my range of Kato items is limited to some track for a small layout I built and also a chassis I bought for a kit build, but have also heard good things about them in general. The track is quite easy to use, snap fit and pre-ballasted, though the points are expensive, but have motors fitted as well. The model your referring to, the Class 800, I have also heard some good things about it, however never bought one since I don't think it can go round my layout! The chassis which I bought (used in my Drewry Railcar) is quite good, very smooth runner given it's size, never really had an issue with it and would assume the 800 would run just as well! Sorry that it's not much but haven't yet had much experience with Kato items other than that.
Thank you for the reply . I am thinking of buying a Kato train set to try out I have already have a Dapol DMU which seems to be fine I didn't have any problems putting together the Peco track set was a bit concerned with it been so small. The best part of N is the space saving 00 is fine if you have the space. Regards Peter
No worries, and at times the track can be a bit fiddly (though it might just be I need new track cutters for flexitrack), but N is very much ideal for small spaces, and Kato track allows even smaller layouts due to tighter curves! (Though might not be suitable for most UK engines) Only thing I would recommend is a rerailer to make it easier to put stuff on the track, but otherwise it's mostly alright!
Nice pack there. I am thinking of getting one of these in NSE as I used to ride these a lot in London in the 1990's even when Connex took them over.
Glad you like it, and do recommend it, is a little fiddly connecting them together but is much easier than the Arnold Brighton Belle!
But it's a very nice model, very smooth runner and quite easy to DCC it as well.
Network southeast is a lovely livery really, very memorable
That's pretty much why I started collecting NSE items, the livery is very nice!
Wish there was more multiple units wearing it however.
@@GosportRailworks ...imagination can make it spread to other classes if need be
James. Excellent review! Sometimes I wish I had gone for more modern image, but I've set my layout firmly in 1947/48 South London. So lots of steam and some EMU's, more needed. Have a great Christmas. Pete.
Ta very much Pete, And I mostly went with it due to the livery!
Do plan on having a go at making some EMUs sometime, though got a long list of steam engines to work through first!
Hope you have a lovely Christmas too!
Nice looking train James - I cannot make up my mind if I can see passengers inside? or maybe it is just the profile of the seating! As for the price, well that is down to the individual purchaser to make up their minds! Generally prices are high these days and they are certainly not toys with manufacturers knowing they are targeting people with disposable incomes.
In this economic climate - prices are rising generally to astonishing levels. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed the 319 Malcolm, and unfortunately there's no passengers inside, would be the seating, the end cars do have proper interiors where as the centre two it's just the window line as the motor and PCB are below that.
And do know what you mean for prices, I sold off some models which I didn't really want anymore to help afford the 319, do think it's a wonderful model but unless it's a DC EMU or something else Southern in the future I'm gonna save my money!
Again glad you enjoyed the video!
I have both the Thameslink and NSE ones they are great models however it seems guagemaster controllers keep frying the light diodes so id be careful of that (had 4 go so far). Great model tho
Cheers for letting me know, I'm currently using the Bachmann controller and it seems happy with that one, though my only other controller is the Hornby Select which I'm saving for another layout.
Hoping that it'll be happy with that one but will be mindful of the lights for other controllers!
Hello, I have just started on my first ever N gauge layout after giving up my 00 gauge layout it's going to get some getting used to been smaller than previous trains and layout. Do you own any Kato products I hear they are quite good? Been recently in Rails of Sheffield it seems train sets are cheaper than buying just one loco I am sure that Rails had a five car DMU for £174 it looked quite nice it was a new item not second hand hoping to go back soon for a proper look. Peter from up North in Chesterfield.
Hello Peter,
Unfortunately my range of Kato items is limited to some track for a small layout I built and also a chassis I bought for a kit build, but have also heard good things about them in general.
The track is quite easy to use, snap fit and pre-ballasted, though the points are expensive, but have motors fitted as well. The model your referring to, the Class 800, I have also heard some good things about it, however never bought one since I don't think it can go round my layout!
The chassis which I bought (used in my Drewry Railcar) is quite good, very smooth runner given it's size, never really had an issue with it and would assume the 800 would run just as well!
Sorry that it's not much but haven't yet had much experience with Kato items other than that.
Thank you for the reply . I am thinking of buying a Kato train set to try out I have already have a Dapol DMU which seems to be fine I didn't have any problems putting together the Peco track set was a bit concerned with it been so small. The best part of N is the space saving 00 is fine if you have the space. Regards Peter
No worries, and at times the track can be a bit fiddly (though it might just be I need new track cutters for flexitrack), but N is very much ideal for small spaces, and Kato track allows even smaller layouts due to tighter curves! (Though might not be suitable for most UK engines)
Only thing I would recommend is a rerailer to make it easier to put stuff on the track, but otherwise it's mostly alright!