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OK. I'll bite. Why? :D If it is because Hattons are now selling thier own manufactured items then why are Gaugemasters shelves full of Bachmann items? It seems they are being very choosy with retailers. One is OK yet another has been denied. It's all very odd. Thanks End2end Gaugemasters own range ...

Bachmann have not supplied Hattons since August 2018. Still if is fun reading the speculation as to why. And yes I DO KNOW WHY before anybody jumps in

I think you will find Bachmann do actually know what they are doing despite what is written on here

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...

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...