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My guess is Hornby have looked hard into their crystal ball and come to the conclusion that relying on OO is not going to be profitable enough in the longer term. With major retailers now offering their own ranges and numerous new smaller players like Accurascale and Rapido to take an ever increasi...

My guess is Hornby have looked hard into their crystal ball and come to the conclusion that relying on OO is not going to be profitable enough in the longer term. With major retailers now offering their own ranges and numerous new smaller players like Accurascale and Rapido to take an ever increasin...

They've certainly abandoned it from a price point of view. I don't care what excuse people try to defend them with,nearly 50 pounds for a railroad 0-4-0 is extortionate. I know you can find some railroad items at alright prices from model shops but through Hornby themselves the RRPs are just too ex...

Tri-ang is very much a name from the past and doesn't have the same kudos and level of recognition as the Hornby brand, particularly for youngsters and beginners. You have to be pushing 60 for it to mean much I would say. Agreed. In the UK, think model trains and you automatically think of 'Hornby'...

I think the the name needs to have Hornby in it somewhere, e.g. 'Hornby Heritage'. Tri-ang railways were not actually in production for that long, only 1951-1964 then Tri-ang-Hornby 1965-1971. It is a brand that has been dormant for many years and slipped from the public consciousness, unlike Hornby...

I looked on the Hornby website and there are currently almost 60 products listed in the Railroad range, so I don't think it is being abandoned. Never been a fan of the name personally but Tri-ang Classics probably wouldn't work because i) most of the products have no link with the Tri-ang era and ii...

Check out the August Bank Holiday sale at Model Railways Direct. Lots of Hornby and Bachmann rolling stock bargains, including Hornby 4- and 6-wheel coaches at 30-40% off. Good prices by today's standards IMHO so worth a look.

More than happy with most of my ebay purchases. You soon get to know the reliable sellers who understand what they are selling and describe items accurately and who to avoid. The odd lemon gets thrown up from time to time but in my experience certainly no worse than buying online from specialist dea...

Watched the Barrie Davies video and agree with most of what he had to say. Hornby's entitled attitude is not really deserved in my opinion and they are going to damage themselves as well as many of their retailers, alienate customers and undermine the hobby if the current direction of travel is mai...

Saw this thread the other day but didnt dive in and suspected the real issue was the manufacturer not the retailer. Just watched Barrie Davies latest on what's transpired on his YT channel. Hope Barry is correct with his alleged Hattons 'loaned hornby £2m' sometime back when Hornby was in the shhhh...

The loco which I most commonly see with a brittle body is the Hornby Dublo R1. I've come across quite a few with the rear buffer beam and bottom of the bunker broken, and it's nearly always the green version and not the black one. Before I got back into Model Railways , I spent a decade collecting ...

Probably Amoco. Sounds like the same tanker as mine in a different livery. They look more European than British in design and the bogies/wheels are noticeably undersized and probably to HO scale. I also have a black Fina one.

What I have noticed about my old Lima Mark 1a is that the bodies are discolouring, changing from black to a greyish colour. Nothing that some Matt black wont sort though. Jim The greying effect is normally caused by exposure to sunlight. I bought a Lima bogie tanker which had sat in the shop window...

Good for £10 but not £25. This must be quite a sought-after item. Even if I was after one I would not have paid that much for a used one. If you are determined to find a new one your best option is probably to trawl through some more small local model shops who are more likely to have NOS items on t...

You can't have too many 0-4-0s and 0-6-0s. I have a 'thing' about 0-4-0s in particular and gave up keeping track of how many I have a couple of years ago. In fact I have bought no other locomotives but 0-4-0s/0-6-0s for several years. What's not to like? Cute, relatively affordable, tend to be relia...