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Hornby’s yellow trains

CLOSE-FIT models have been offered by manufacturers in the past, allowing a reasonable representation of specialised trains to be modelled. Hornby has pushed the envelope as far as it can with its new Mk.2f stock and a couple of its newer Mk.1 coach models too. Some of the livery to model fits are pretty close, whilst others only have a passing resemblance to the operational coaches.

The problem that mainstream manufacturers have in matching models of revenue stock to departmentals is that the latter

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