stute BRM readers may recall that Ben Jones gave a glowing review of Lionheart Trains’ ‘small prairie’ in our July 2014 issue. At that time, Lionheart was owned by Richard Webster, who subsequently joined Dapol, with the businesses merging in 2016. November 2017 saw the announcement of a re-working of the original hand-assembled brass 45XX, which had an RRP of £1,095.00. It promised economies of scale and mass-production techniques, and we can now see the result of this with a new model at an RRP of £512.33 for the DCC-ready version - under
