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hi, trying to confirm if this will read cv's as well write them. can't seem to get a definitive answer online. i'm looking at getting something like this as i like the large screen. i have a hornby elite but do not like the waffy controls. any other suggestions in the same price range appreciated. ...

It is a real shame they are closing down, I have been buying from them since the mid 1970s, although I have to say in the last few years I have been buying elsewhere. Mainly because of their fall out with Bachmann which as resulted in them not stocking what I want. I remember the days when your parc...

Thankfully there is absolutely nothing in the 2024 range which I want. That means I can keep my bank card in the fridge, cooling off nicely!

My suggestion is that you have a decoder fitted which does not tolerate what is known as "brown outs". These occur when the current is momentarily interrupted by either dirt on the track, moving over dead frogs on points or the pick ups momentarily parting company with the wheel backs. Loc...

I wasn't for one second suggesting people should sign up for Facebook and desert this forum with my original comment. I was suggesting that it is perhaps one of the reasons it can be a bit quiet in here at times. Facebook is either something you like or something you don't. I personally get on fine ...

I have to say I don't visit here as often as I used to but I do contribute with useful snippets of advice when I see a subject of which I have some knowledge (such as a recent request for info about Oxford Rail Mk3s). Since I joined this forum many moons ago, I have retired from work and I now spend...

Oxford Rail is already included in the list under the Hornby family which it now belongs to so should it be in the list of other manufacturers?

... Oxford Rail is part of the Hornby family! Initially it wasn't, but now it is: except in price, and I do wonder how long this will last? Even Mr Cola in his most wildly upbeat moments cannot fail to see that selling Oxford's substantially more accurate recently tooled open wagons at £10 a throw,...

This appears to have been moved to the wrong category.... Oxford Rail is part of the Hornby family!

Thanks both. Seems like an option to pass up on. I would say they are good coaches other than the bits I have described. You can pick them up for a reasonable price secondhand, but you run the risk of the couplings not being all in one piece (unless specific questions are asked before purchase or i...

Bigmet wrote:Always good to see an owner's experience and reasoned appraisal, very useful post.

Thank you squire!

I have recently acquired a rake of 6 of these in Scotrail livery (blue stripe inter-city livery). The NEM coupling mechanism and its associated spring is held in by the tiniest of screws which in turn is held in place (badly) by the seating unit. The seating unit is not attached very well to the cha...

I have had this problem with some Hornby Railroad coaches. It is only the newer China made "new" tooled versions suffer with it not the earlier ones based on the old Triang Hornby Mk1s. The solution is to either fit them with smaller diameter wheels (similar to those used in B4 bogies) or ...

I wasn't going to buy one of these but as Accurascale are now accepting orders for what is left, I bought 55 001 St Paddy as it was the only one left with marker lights instead of head codes which is what I wanted. Hopefully it will be winging its way to me soon. Bigmet, you may be interested to kno...

I have bought a couple of packs of Dapol's replacement wheels in the past and I have to say they are pretty awful. The majority of them have one wheel which is slightly off centre making the coach wobble as it goes round. A few others have odd width flanges (ie thick round one half, thin round the o...