Now that we've been hit by a deluge of all new super accurate and fine N gauge models I've recently been going though some of my older stock; the stuff that doesn't stand up to comparison and has embarrassing 'improvements'. I've already managed to sell my old Poole Farish class 47s and get rid of some particularly ancient 37s (I've still got another in messy triple grey livery) but it???s converted, not very well, to represent an actual loco seen at Woking, and runs well on a new Chinese chassis. That makes it a little special to me, particularly being in the attractive triple grey livery - why can??™t Bachmann produce the class 60 in the original 3G livery (without a later privatisation overbranding).

My CJM class 73s were retired some time back, when the more accurate (dimensionally) and better running (my CJM 73s had the old Bachmann American chassis) Dapol version was launched, and now reside in a display cabinet.

Fortunately no-one has yet announced a brand new class 33 as I have quite an extensive collection and have invested heavily in upgrading them with details and new motor chassis???. However, I do have a class 56 that I??™ve spent time on trying, not fully sucessfully, to make it look more like a class 56. Now that Dapol have announced one, which will no doubt be better, what should I do - sell quickly, hang on to it??¦??¦??¦?

G.