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By way of brightening things up a bit, following my previous posting, here we have another fairly new addition to the railway.

This is a Dapol Class 121, Nº 121027, in Silver Link livery, Catalogue Nº 4D-009-005.

We do already have a Hornby (ex-Lima) Class 121, in BR blue and grey livery, Nº 121026, Catalogue Nº R2770.

However, she is fairly lightweight and pretty basic so I thought it would be nice to introduce a more colourful (some might say gawdy) version of the bubble car, which are predominantly used on the branch line to Niggly Bottom but which can also occasionally be seen on local services on the main line.

In the picture, above, the Hornby 121 is also seen at Niggly Bottom. 

She, unlike her newly acquired sister, has been weathered and I think the Dapol 121 would definitely benefit from being similarly treated, if only to tone her down a bit.

Both have sound decoders fitted, with the Dapol having one by DC Kits while the Hornby model has one by Howes.

The Dapol loco does come with a space provided for a Dapol-recommended speaker, which is sited beneath the seating panel. However, we found this position, and the speaker, to be wholly inadequate.

So, we changed the speaker for a slightly larger one and moved it to sit, out of sight, on the seating panel and this certainly improved it..