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Many thanks. OK unless the fat controller is in the yard.

Many thanks, my feelings but I thought that I should ask.

Would a steam or diesel locomotive have travelled through a goods shed or would the waggons be shunted with the loco remaining outside the shed, please?

....... I also keep an eye on ebay store FNQhobbies they get some decent stock from time to time, other than that like you I buy from the UK. Cheers Dave Dave, you will not find a nicer gentleman than Mark at FNQhobbies. I have dealt with him on several (many) occasions and always have nothing but ...

Living in Sydney one would expect with a population of over 3 million people that one could buy most items for a hobby. Alas, as already written the mainstream hobby store will usually only offer goods at full retail and then a very limited range. Some stores may offer a loyalty discount to regular ...

The store seems to have fixed their issue. I just purchased several Railfreight four-wheel vans and received the order processed email. Went back to the site and the items had been removed from sale. I find the system generally works very well and when issues do occur all it takes is an email in off...

Do you have the option for live chat on there during office hours? (do they still do that service?) There is an "Ask a question" prompt on the lower right hand side of the screen which looks like a live chat link. Currently 2 am British time, so if not receiving a response to my emails in...

Just wondering if anyone else is having issues with the "Pre-owned" site. I purchased several items and immediately received the order processed email with the picking list number and yet the items purchased almost eleven hours ago are still listed as available for sale. I emailed the stor...

Weird, worth £40 at most.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LMS-Duchess-of-Sutherland-6233-Locomotive-for-Hornby-OO-Gauge-Sets-/312090296327?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=UpJnL2Y7Mb%252Bduk0D0bMh%252Flecq3Y%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc If you look at ...

Pete, five years later and still the same issue, I would ignore the onboard PCB, break the set electrically in the middle and power two cars with the sound decoder and an additional decoder looking after lighting in the other two cars. Replace the overhead lighting with the inexpensive lighting stri...

Given its apparent failure to meet several financial goalposts I believe under the current corporate structure, without a massive injection of OR cash, there is not really much future. The administrators may require a UK buyer to bail the company out so that would rule out the likes of Kader seizing...

After seeing the latest disaster on another site I am glad that caution overrode my impatience. Edit: the nightmare just gets worse. Given the time this loco has taken to get to market there is no excuse for the faults being found. The OR release issues with their three locomotives convinced me to a...

Keiron,
that guy would need a bag of spares, a box of Panadol to calm his nerves and a box of washing powder to clean his underwear.

Much has been said about Chinese manufacturers bypassing the middleman and releasing product ex-factory. A case in point is product once released by an American manufacturer Aristo-Craft who produced largescale trains. Now Kader actually owned the tooling and Aristo contracted production runs. With ...

As regards the labour cost to production, I was viewing a report on the latest trade war tariff situation regarding imports to China. The latest iphone 10 contains roughly $300.00 of imported parts (ex-Europe) into China where those parts are assembled. The labour cost to assemble an iphone 10 was q...