Apr 14, 2022 · For a Hornby loco you need to reuse the metal pinion gear from the ringfield motor. It's a loose fit on a CD-ROM motor, and so needs care to centralise while using superglue …

Sep 23, 2019 · My APT upgrade, which was on hold whilst the DJM initiative was active, has been revived and I've nearly finished working on the last jobs, mainly the power car. I've re-engined …

May 24, 2023 · Initially the pair ran with power car 49003 - Hornby's 2020 release with 003 and 004 is pretty accurate - you only need a couple of trailer cars for 003 to create that rake. …

Oct 30, 2010 · If you can transplant a modern centre motor drive chassis into the body it will give your APT the same drive that the better models made now enjoy. What you need to know is …

Aug 18, 2021 · These trains are bad enough on much more forgiving analogue but I wanted to give it a go. The video ends with first run and quite a bit of work still to do. Having just two …

May 22, 2012 · Make sure you place insulation tapes in appropriate areas to prevent short circuit. The downside with this method is the inability to use the APT pantograph.... perhaps it's …

Jan 6, 2020 · It is great to see the APT back in production with a number of new intermediate cars, I am hopeing that being an owner of the original 5 Cap APT that the new ones will have …

In 1980 Hornby released a five car 'OO' model of the Prototype Advanced Passenger Train. On 6 January 2020 Hornby announced two newly tooled APT-P model packs, together with pairs of …

The Hornby model of the Advanced Passenger Train, strictly speaking an APT-P, was launched in 1980. Designed in conjunction with British Rail, it unfortunately enjoyed a rather more reliable …

Jan 26, 2013 · I think it's the main APT site that has pictures of plans and mock-ups for the actual production APT's, which were to have a similar format to the Class 91's and DVT's - a power …