Silver Sidelines

I am really very pleased with my black Heljan 47xx. I think it is becoming one of the best ever locomotives to grace my layout. It has been a long journey which will not suit everybody. However ‘job done’ and I am well pleased. Heljan 4706 BR Black 'Night Owl When Heljan announced their 47xx I preordered a BR green model. I read with interest the associated thread on RMweb and noted the trials and tribulations with 4706 the ‘black’ model. I dithered. I cancelled my preorder. Then I reordered and took delivery – ‘Shades of Green’. https://longsheds.blogspot.com/2018/08/no-146-shades-of-green-2018-edition.html I was well pleased with my green model; it ran like a sewing machine and arrived mostly in one piece. (It was only after I had written my last Blog Post and I was reviewing the pictures that I noticed that one of the lamp irons had ‘fallen over’ - now sorted.) I was so impressed with my green engine that whilst new models were still avail...

This Post is made in response to the appearance of Heljan’s latest BR Green 47xx. Heljan’s choice of colours for both the engine green and the lining has evoked a certain amount of correspondence within the railway modelling community. I thought it might be useful to bring together some of my pictures. Some have already been posted elsewhere showing the new Heljan model in company with some older models from Bachmann and Hornby. I used the same title back in 2014 for a Post when I repainted the white cab roof of a Hornby ‘Royal’ Britannia: This time I am using the title as an excuse to post some pictures of my latest acquisition, Heljan BR green 47xx, number 4705. The Night Owl has landed The perceived wisdom is that the model is rather bright. The Royal Duchy? My first impressions are that the orange lining is rather more ‘luminous’ than the lining on say Hornby or Bachmann models. I have to say I am beginning to quite like the model. It is seriously weighty, runs su...