Got mine today and she's lovely! Think it's an older version as it has tender pick ups and the less modern coupling.

I bought one of these a while ago... Then subsequently took the paint off and repainted/renumbered it as Black Prince... Best £60 eBay purchase ever

The 9f is one of my favorite locomotives! I loved the review, as always!

Talk about an awesome birthday present, and a great souvenir to remember it by! I am so jealous.

A beautiful steam loco. Fantastic. I have only a static model of the Evening Star.

This is a good looking model, nice to see it running.

The Evening Star is quite a sad loco when you think about it but still is equally as Beautiful.I like your new 9F Sam.And another great video!!

I've had that evening star model for my birthday 10 years ago along with the flying Scotsman train set and Toby with 3 troublesome truck pack, it was a great birthday 😀

not boring videos. I look forward to seeing them!

9F's are great, and now i'm jealous that you drove one. But seriously the railroad models of these are my favourite of the range, lucky that you were able to change the number

Well that was very generous of Hornby being attentive by putting some miniscule details on the custom built then just only removing the nameplate and the renumbering .

Yet another amazing video!

it's beautiful, I didn't have a favourite British railway loco until I heard of this

The original 9f was a Triang-Hornby model from the early 1960’s. It didn’t have separate handrails and was tender drive, but still a big advance on all previous Triang models. This Railroad version will be the same basic moulding, but up-dated with separate handrails etc. Testimony to the brilliance of that first 9f some 50 years ago.

Our last steamer was built in 1959; a class 375 No.1032 (No.1031 was preserved). The 375s were small 2-6-2 tank-engines, made for branch-line mix-traffic service. Total of 596 were made between 1907-1959 in 10 terms, so they were very popular and common locos, and around a dozen of them still exists.

My grandad was the last fireman on the pines express on this beautiful engine

Another great vid Sam! I must say that I adore the camera angles you use to film your trains! In particular your shot at

Marvellous video Sam!

I have the DCC ready railroad Evening Star R2785 . I understand it is now discontinued but I got about 8 years ago and it has tender pickups with brass contacts between the loco and tender. Beautiful smooth runner and very powerful.

great vid as always. i bought my evening star based on your video a while back.