A return to the hobby of Railway modelling after around 20 years has invoked the creation of a fictitious location on the GWR, namely - Goodford. These OO gauge modern image model railway videos feature diesel locomotives and rolling stock mainly from around the year 2020.
After a house move and a dedicated model railway room measuring 20’ x 12' was commandeered in late 2020, Goodford MK3 was created. This was my first experience of a layout this size and many mistakes were realised so in 2023 Goodford MK4 took it’s place and whilst this overcame some of the issues, after 6 months it was clear the operational scope was too limited so in 2024 Goodford MK5 was created. The aim is to “finish” this layout in 1 year! The layouts are all DCC, operated with a Roco Z21 via an iPad with all locos being with DCC sound fitted.
This is purely a hobby and for fun, hope you enjoy the channel!
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Hornby have had the model in for repair for over 28 days now and the only contact i have had with them was when i contacted them and they stated that it was still being worked on. Due to the length of time and lack of update/contact, i have reached out to the reseller to ask for a full refund. Based on this experience, I will not be buying any more Hornby stock.
Hi Dave nice work, Regards Elizabeth Lines👋🚂👍
Just bought the R3967 5 car pack reduced to £375 was £502.49 brand new. Had ten in stock, now 8 left (13/7/24). Runs very well both directions. I might lubricate the wheels though. All headlights and tail lights work on both dummy and power cars. Only little issue I have is intermittent lighting in two of the coaches, the rest of the coaches are fine.
@@karlhudson1740 great deal, I think it’s only the extra 4 coach pack which seems to have the issue which causes the drag. 5 cars should be fine but can never hurt to lightly lubricate the axles to reduce strain on the motor 👍
I might suggest weathering the concrete sleepers to make them darker as that would be quite realistic as well as allowing them to blend in with the darker wooden sleepers on the points.
@@andrewbergman9315 it’s on the list of things to do however I need to do all of the track detailing such as cable trunking, AWS grids etc beforehand 👍
Thanks GMR, great stuff. Regards Charlie
Didn't Hornby have a similar issues with the A.P.T. Hornby you really need to sort these issues out . 1 if many with different models . I mean come on we the customers who pay an arm and a leg for these models . Expect the dam things to work . And don't tell us Hornby it's not down to you . Because you dam well know it is. Sorry for the rant but this is getting quite frequent lately with Hornbys stuff.
The headlights and top light are on Function Output 1 of the decoder (with youchoos sound project - F12 on the controller) Function Output 2 turns off the tail lights (F6). So that is one problem solved for you. What sound project have you got in yours??
Thanks, I have installed a Legomanbiffo project, nothing mentions these lights on the function list but will drop him a line to check. Appreciate the feedback 👍
Looking at Legoman instructions F19 should be the headlights. F20 should turn the tail lights off.
@@dhillebrandt85 thought I tried that and didn’t work but will run through all functions again when I get a chance just in case I missed it. 👍
@@dhillebrandt85 I gave it a test this evening (before boxing up ready to go back to Hornby) and F19 makes a sound and F20 turns the dual headlights on. I tried all functions from 0-30 and none of them turn the single headlight at the top on.
It could be that the decoder you have in there is not configured to operate Function Outputs 1 & 2 then? Do you have a spare standard 21 pin decoder you can try the functions on?
Hornby rubbish on customer service again why does that not surprise me. I've not had any issues in n gauge with the same unit made by kato. Just goes to show Hornby does not care anymore. Peter
Traction control issue have u tried to move it
Disappointing that Hornby are ignoring customer concerns.
You know, ever since Rishi used a GWR train in his campaign trail, I've noticed an uptick in these models having issues. It's probably a coincidence, but I think I'm gonna vote for Labour just on the off-chance and see if that fixes the problem.
Hahaha, tenuous link but can’t argue with the facts! 😂
I can give you some advice, don't buy Hornby rubbish, I don't have any on my layout only Bachmann, Dapol, Accurascale and Cavalex 56.
Thanks John! This model is certainly the final nail in the coffin for my relationship with Hornby. We are lucky to have many other manufacturers for OO now who are all offering quality products 👍
Hi, sorry to see you have this issue with this very expensive Hornby item, I hope you get the issues sort very soon as your purchase should be fit for purpose, I noticed you have a Network rail yellow livery mk2/3 coach with a pantograph on top, is it a Britannia Pacific model or a custom built item? thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your comment and concern, I hope it will get fixed ASAP. The MK1 network rail coach was a custom item bought from an online auction site. Not sure if the guy is making them or any custom items any more though.
Could you take out carriages until it does go just to establish what it can do
I have a couple of the 5 car 800’s and never had an issue related to drag. I’m not planning to spend any more time trying to fix a “ready to run” model. Hopefully Hornby will have better luck than I did (assuming they try and fix it!).
@@GoodfordModelRailway to be honest probably like the old HST problem, sell it as a few coaches and power car, then you buy extra and end up having to make up a custom two driven power car solution to get a prototypical long rake to really work. To be clear though the 5 car set sold as is with no extras works just fine right?
Must be peak time travel with 2 many people on board causing it to spin😝😆👍🏻
Yours is the second video I’ve seen with this problem I was very tempted to buy this set but not now I’ve got a nine car pendolino used to run lovely up an incline as well but haven’t run it for years because of the traction tyres leaving dirt on the track cheers Al
It’s real shame the model isn’t useable out of the box as the full length set does look great. Hope you manage to get yours sorted soon so you can finally enjoy it 👍
I have 4 of these sets and I have had issues since day 1. I find they need so much power that I have to clean the track before using them. I have always had to give them a push.
Which other sets do you have? I have a couple of the GWR 800 sets (5 car) and thankfully they have never had the same issues. When paying this much money you shouldn’t have to give them a nudge to get them going, such a shame that we have to accept these substandard products. Hopefully some of the relatively new manufacturers will start to breach the DMU/EMU/HST space soon.
I have 2 GWR, LNER and experimental. Everything runs fine on my layout except these sometimes and some HSTs. Again they want a push and I have to clean the track even thou I keep it clean. I am no fan of Hornby. I have bought their products since 1977 and 2022 and 2023 were the first years that I bought nothing of theirs. I have said this for years but if you look on the back of the Hornby boxes you will see the white sticker from China. SK was Sandakan and the Merchant Navies and LNER teak coaches came from there as well as loads of others. They were amazing and there were NEVER any issues. Then they moved. Ever since they moved production from there the standard has dropped. Just watch that ridiculous programme they did and you see what a bunch of cowboys they are. Montana and Simon were just laughable and clueless. This has transferred to their products and they need a massive shake up. Hornby are being left behind and I do not think they will last long at this rate.
i have never had anything good from hornby except the coaches , gave up on them a long time ago
Sorry like to add mine are TT 120
Does every coach roll equally well down that piece of track if you hand pushed them? It might identify if there is an area of track or a particular coach creating an issue.
The problem occurs on all parts of the layout. Each coach has had the axles lubricated, which did significantly reduce the problem (when first received the drag would pull the train to a stop even after helping it get going!). Each coach runs freely however I believe it is due to the sheer number of coaches, which all have 1 bogie with pickups for the internal lights touching the wheels.
@@GoodfordModelRailway I did notice those pickups on the other guy's coaches who had the same problem. That many pickups acting against the axles does look like a recipe for disaster. Can the tension on them be reduced a little?
@@NewModelRailway1good idea, potentially one side could be bent away from one of the axels, so you are down to a single axle pick up for the internal lights. I will wait and see how Hornby fix the issue and post an update based on the results 👍
@@GoodfordModelRailway There is one other thought and that is if the power draw is too great now. With all your other DCC fitted locos on track at the same time as this 9 unit 802, I would question if maybe your power supply is up to the task now. You could try removing some locos from the track to see if that helps.
@@NewModelRailway1 thanks for the suggestion however it is not a lack of power, the loco wheels are spinning so the loco is getting adequate power. If you give the train a nudge it starts to move and run. When first received, the loco could not even maintain momentum with the full rake and ground to a halt. Lubricating and adding extra weights has made a significant difference to this “ready to run” model!
Hi I had the same with my intercity 125 and leviathan class 50 sending them back they are thinking prop shafts
Sorry to hear that, this unit starts to move if you nudge it, the drag from the coaches is too much for the loco to handle so I would say this is a design problem, unfortunately. Hope you manage to get your issue sorted.
So cool 😊
Great video of a great layout. 👍
Nice one Dave. Really enjoyed the video. Susannah
Great video, reminds me of EverardJunction on KZread.
Everything is perfect 👍👍
Just fantastic mate
Fantastic running session, super layout,thanks for sharing….Regards from Maryville Junction…😎🚒🚒
Wow ! 🤩 that’s looking amazing Dave! Excellent running and great viewpoints , watching the trains snake through the station throat looked fantastic, if I ever rebuild my layout it’s going to look something like this 😃👍 cheers Darrell
Thanks Darrell! Your layout is great, where did you get the background of the houses/town from? Cheers, Dave
@@GoodfordModelRailway ahh cheers mate, are you talking about the back of houses above the station or the hillside ones?
@@darrelldeltic807 think it’s on the hillside?
@@GoodfordModelRailway it’s the Gaugemaster GM704 large village measures 2744x304mm if that helps
@@darrelldeltic807 perfect, thanks! Sure you are aware but I can’t comment on your videos as you have them set as “made for kids”. Cheers, Dave
Lovely running session,how do set up you’re locomotives to run double headers smoothly on DCC do you use the same decoders with same cv settings ?
Thanks! Running double headers has been an ongoing issue. I use various methods. Many of the locos have their drive train removed and motor disconnected so they are dummies (like the Harry Needle 20). I did it this was as trying to speed match Zimo and ESU decoder is almost impossible! For the West Coast double 33 and 57 combo, this was tricky. The second 33 is a dummy with no sound and drive shafts removed. Tried that with the 57 too but kept uncoupling so just spent some time speed matching it with the 33. I set all locos to linear speed curves anyway so as long as the max speed is the same it becomes relatively straight forward. The final method is the easiest and I use the same decoder and same settings, sometimes a bit of tweaking is needed but generally they run well this way. Hope this helps 👍
Excellent video. The captions really added to the pleasure of watching the trains go by.
Great session, I enjoyed watching that!
Excellent days spotting at Goodford ... needed a tape recorder though to keep up with all the action
Loving the video! the layout is coming on nicely. really hope you decide to fit a TMD in somewhere haha
Brilliant video footage love the running session thanks for sharing 👍
Those windscreen wipers on the DB Class 60 at 13:14 give the loco a really angry face. Nice layout concept with the very long trains not requiring very long platforms.
Really good ,great variation of trains. The scenery looks brilliant
Great to see everything running on the layout, thoroughly enjoyed this video
A thoroughly enjoyable running session. 😊
wow those log loads! beautiful passenger and freight trains all around. and master skills running Sir :)
Hi, could you let me know how you changed your Bachmann JJA wagons to the yellow and black network Rail emblem on the side? Thanks for sharing.
Hi, I think they were railtrack wagons and I rubbed down the blue railtrack paint and then masked and resprayed the yellow stripe. Then just added the Network Rail transfers. It took some time to do and I did it because when received someone had tried painting them and had done an awful job so they needed stripping back anyway. Thanks, Dave
Great running video, Dave. You have an interesting range of varied stock. Layout is beginning to look good too! Cheers, Karl.
Excellent a joy to watch great variety of trains
Great Vid 👌👍
good vid on channel running trains
can't beat a bit of tug thrash
I can't wait for the running session 😊
Magnificent catches of the model trains coming by and pass, I like it 5 stars. Thumbs up. Keep up the perfect work, my friend, just liked and subscribed, Greetings from Portugal to the UK.
Good looking layout and just a quick question where did you get your tablet holder from please Thanks Bob Latham
Thanks Bob! The tablet holder is a pair of brackets bought from AMZN and mounted on to a piece of ply. There’s a small piece of foam also attached to the back to stabilise it so it doesn’t rock when you use it in situ, but isn’t really needed if you just want a safe place to dock it. Cheers, Dave
It’s coming along nicely . Only one thought will the cement works block views ? Cheers Kev