GordonC

Speeding up commuting in the past has increased the range at which commuters travel from London, so its probably going to increase the numbers working in London but living in the north and thus, increase housing costs? So who does it benefit more?

haven't we already had HTO/HTV 21t hoppers????

6 mins less London to Glasgow and how much more will ticket prices be?

I think they've just split the production batch to number with alternative numbers for the same tooling. The product reference number has a suffix A on it so essentially same tooling and livery

Thats probably a renumbered 31110

Something just looks absolutely spot on about it that the Heljan just doesn't seem to have

Scottish 37/4s would definitely go down well!!!

Looks pretty elusive in ICI livery, but there's a couple of photos here of PR5302 and PR5307 wagons https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/iciredlandpna

SLW have been going for a good few years now so a lot of those 5 digits will relate to the various Class 24 releases and there have been a good few batches of those

I'd prefer the Mk3 Royal Train, is there any more commonality in those vehicles?

When Accurascale announced there was only the Hornby Class 31 around and they haven't really seemed to pay much attention to it for quite some time that there are still big gaps in what they've produced from tooling thats nearly 20 years old. Bearing in mind Accurascale announce when they've got something to show for it, as in Engineering Prototypes, it wasn't just a CAD drawing so it was obviously well on the way to a finished product turning up. I can only assume that Bachmann must have been at a similar stage at that point and to have spent the big money on tooling already that they needed to continue to recover that.

or Bachmann Collectors Club

I'm not sure politicians of any colour have taken long term views of things ... and there's zero choice for voters for those that would

Would it help to cancel your orders and be refunded to free up some cash?

would the yellow clips not generally be covered in grot anyway?

it'd be interesting to know whether that could be built any cheaper and if so what the difference would be

I dont think they've gotten close to offering a Class 31 at the right price for years with the way vast numbers of releases end up in the bargain bin

Class 08s were often depot pets getting special treatment and unusual liveries or adornments. Perhaps not fleets, but most layouts will cope with multiples of Class 08s and they'll often have been left visible for long periods of time in stations rather than only making brief visits. Not to mention nearly 1000 of them built

I'd guess some kind of electromagnet to move the hook ... might need to have similar steel hook on whatever you're uncoupling from too to get it to release

and both of them must be very much targets for other manufacturers too. I'd be astonished if both weren't being worked on right now

The Hornby model is ok, but its priced pretty steeply and has hardly been as 'available' as it really should have been in the 20 years or so the tooling has been around. How many Class 31s will have been in the non-red stripe railfreight livery or BR Blue 31/4? Lots - how many have Hornby produced? 0. The bigger the gaps left the more appealing it is for competitors to duplicate. Hornby have been too busy chasing the one-off niche liveries then wondering why they're not selling

They'll be here when they're here ... no-ones life is depending on them. I ordered sound, but haven't heard anything yet

Not in my hands they cant!!! ... yours must be a lot more gifted!!! ... ;)

I think he's playing it down and it could be something big

there might be limitations on what they can produce for the Drax wagons - Have Drax not copyrighted their wagon design and commissioned the first run of wagons ... so they may actually own the tooling. I certainly got the impression permission had to be requested for further runs