WEST ORTON

[Walkingthedog]

Never without it.

[Steve M]

New arrival.

2023-03-07_03-51-27 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[Walkingthedog]

Interesting. Is this their first OO gauge model?

[Steve M]

Interesting. Is this their first OO gauge model?

Quite likely, it’s certainly my first from them. Only had a quick look today but I will hopefully get a bit of time tomorrow morning.
Off to that there London in the afternoon West End Show Christmas present then up early on Thursday, collect the dog, then off to the Yorkshire Dales for a long birthday weekend.
Having seen the weather forecast it may help if you offered up your thoughts and prayers.

[Walkingthedog]

We’re going to London tomorrow. David Hockney exhibition near Kings Cross. Have a great time and enjoy your weekend.

[darkscot]

Sam's Trains (loveim or hateim) reviewed this last week and was very complimentary.

[Steve M]

Reluctantly I agree with Sam.

One nice touch on the Robinson A5 is the removable cab which made placing the crew a doddle. One anomaly is that Sonic provide lamps with a small locating pin on the base but no corresponding hole on the running plate - so I used a couple of my own.
I bought mine sound fitted - an option from Rails with them doing the upgrade. Only a brief test this morning but the sounds appear very good although the chuffs are a little quiet , so there’s some adjustment to be made there (will have to work out how ).

20230308_111603 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

20230308_112100 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

20230308_111919 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[bulleidboy]

Nice looking loco - is the sound good?

[Steve M]

Nice looking loco - is the sound good?

A little quiet for my taste. It has two good braking functions on F5 & F6 and the whistle is excellent. It will be good to put it up against the new TXS sound files - eventually.

[Mr Bones]

Very nice looking loco. Seems very detailed.