Hornby Electric Train Set - R1253T The Beatles Yellow Submarine - OO Gauge Train Starter Sets, Adult Vintage Trains, Small Hobby Model for Adults - with Tracks, MidiMat, Connecting Track, Controller

Good

This train is a true attention-grabber. whether you buy the starter set with track and a transformer or if you buy only the train. The price is VERY reasonable. The performance is good. The train can be easily retro-fitted with DCC and sound. After you buy this 4-piece basic train, start scouring the internet for the 2-piece add-on set that makes the entire train! Very impressive!

4 of the Hornby products we purchased - for hundreds of dollars - broken down within 2 months, despite their being treated with tremendous care and caution. Shoddy workmanship. The Acela, a 5th Hornby product, was broken the day we got it and we returned it for a refund. The EuroStar always ran hot and broke down within 2 months. Hornby company has plummeted. Many of the products are defective. Moreover, we sent 4 engines back to Hornby for repair. We should have done a simple return instead. The engines got there in 4 days but then were stuck at customs for more than 4 weeks. Hornby and USPS/Parcel Force never informed us a customs payment had been slapped on them that Hornby refused to pay. Now they're supposedly heading back to the US - unrepaired - and we're told it may take a very long time. Hornby refused to issue reimbursement for $670 worth of defective trains, not including tax. They refuse to send us replacements. They say we must go through Amazon. Amazon says the return window is no longer open, even though it was open at the time we shipped the engines to the UK. Amazon just has a computer to talk to you, so you can't make it understand sense. Hornby has real people, but they don't understand sense either and can't get around their bureaucratic rules that conveniently serve their own profits. Amazon said we have to go to the manufacturer. Round and round. Asked Hornby again, and they still refuse to issue reimbursement or replacement for their 4 defective engines because we did not buy them directly from them but through Amazon. Never heard anything so absurd and so tight-fisted. They obviously earned money selling these engines to Amazon. So why can't they pay us back? Why should they keep their $670? This company makes millions and can't afford to replace 4 engines and can't afford to make operable engines. Hornby is hard-hearted, cold-fisted, and bureaucratic. Their engines are junk. Don't waste your money on Hornby. Stick with Bachmann. Their engines rarely break down and when they do, you get immensely better service. They're located in the US so you don't have to deal with UK customs and poor UK customer service.

Good quality; shipping was on time.

Item was delivered on time and was as expected.

The finish is matte and not the high gloss that the loco and cars look like in the pictures - so keep that in mind. But they run really smoothly and look really cool. So, as a nice mix of style on the tracks I couldn’t be happier. ALSO - I truly believe that bad reviews come from people who just don’t have the patience to work a little with small(ish) trains. Put a little time in, relax, have a steady hand and HO and OO trains will work perfectly fine.

Very cool to build

Set up was easy the cars looked great!…my only disappointment was that the engine did not have a headlight…which was quite surprising considering even less expensive model trains have the headlight feature, The train ran smoothly and trouble free as all the Hornby products I have purchased over the years…a good buy…

I collect Beatles collectables but also into 00 hornby railway products. Fantastic product.

Amazing set for a beginner. The remote has issues that you learn how to manage. Managed to get this used at a steal price.

great for the job

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I bought this purely because it is The Beatles, all the graphics are nicely done, vivid colours. The train itself runs smoothly even at slow speed, all wheels pickup on the motorised unit. The only thing I would mention is the axel of all the wheels has no proper metal bearings, the all rest on plastic, thus one star off.