This was a very expensive impulse purchase. It has no real function on the layout except to be a Western, my favourite engines back in the day, blasting away from Westbury towards Lavington with a fast or 41 tipplers. Back then I longed for Hornby to do one, in the end giving up waiting and buying a Trix HO one. The different size was an issue, but it ran so much better the my Hornby diesels. Anyhow, I was in a position to buy something that would serve as a reminder of an expired relative - so I bought the thing that they would have hated the most. Fitted with a ESU sound decoder, cab lights and 'professional' weathering it set me back £860. It took months of searching literally every day to find a blue one, they were real hens teeth at the time. Buffer lock means it can't pull anything, so it's completely pointlessly goes round in a circle on it's own now and again. The 'professional' weathering included the cab windows - it needs a white stick to see where it's going. Sigh. Not falling for that one again.
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