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Hornby themselves have taken a stand this time. The GES is organised and sponsored by the "Hornby Magazine" which is a publishing company. We let them advertise the show on here, but they kept bunging in adverts for non railway publications, so in the end we pulled the plug on them. Hornb...

Technically the Hornby models are Class 59 as there are detail differences between them and the class 66 but as SK says the price point is the crux of the matter. Not everybody wants the all singing all dancing version or for that matter can afford one. Also I feel Simon has a point when he says tha...

Strange I find it an improvement

Hmm. The OO for 2019 is all reliveries of existing models, nothing from newly introduced tooling unless I am very much mistaken. And the 2019 catalogue tends toward reliveries of older tooling too. Where are the quite recent Stanier 'porthole' and Thompson gangwayed coaches in BR maroon ? Surely th...

It is a basic train controller

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This has given me fresh impotus( :oops: spelling? :oops: ) to get on to Hornby & suggest they knock out another 101 3-car set in the refurbished white with blue stripe WYPTE livery. Surely it wouldn't be too risky in terms of shifting units,bearing in mind they did a 110 in these colours in the...

I am glad some one purchased it. I was sorely tempted a couple of times seeing it just sitting there. At the price it was too good to ignore. Several times I have seen items with the wrong part number knowing them to be later models and the prices reduced accordingly. I have said a few times the st...

Never has my squid been so damp

Hattons announce that the J36 delivery is now expected to be in October 2018. Well, at least it gives me an opportunity to finish the coaling stage first, and perhaps even pick up the J36's from Hattons at Warley. I don`t think Hattons attend Warley in a selling capacity or indeed attend any shows ...

GWR_fan wrote:Many thanks

No problem

GWR you forgot the

Class 20
Class59
GWR Rail Car
Class73
Class33
Class121/2


And all the OLD Hornby tooling used for the steam models

I've never thought of Thomas as a way into railway modelling. There seems to me a bit of an age gap between following the Thomas stories and understanding what goes on in main line or heritage railways. I disagree with that statement. I would think it was a two way thing in that it encouraged child...

In terms of technology, the past is the past, and should remain there. It was what it was. Like DC's stuck in the muds,DCC is finally THE long overdue finally established embraced operating standard now like it or not, refuse to acknowledge it or not I beg to differ DCC is one way to control toy tra...

The article in the link in the first post is total and utter rubbish. The Hornby company of today uses the old Hornby name from the past and is not connected to them . It was not founded by Frank Hornby at all. The Hornby business was sold in the Sixties to the Lines Brothers