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Looking forward to seeing the Class 99 in OO Gauge...hopefully it will be taken up by a manufacturer with an already proven competence in designing electric locos with BW pantograph....

Will we ever see that livery?

Looks great!

Have you seen it?

I really really want to see a Class 88...

so delivery could be about one year after the order book closes...? Hopefully the Class 93 gets into service sooner rather than later

Not from my memory.

Ouch - but can I make a 321 of this quality? No

Very exciting announcement - I also would opt for the Silverlink livery but the London Midland livery will sit well alongside the Bachmann 350 - so happy with that Can't imagine these will be cheap - and normally don't pre-order but on the back of their other recent models, happy to do so on this occasion.

I have been voting fruitlessly for a Class 88 for 3 or 4 years...

Every metro I have been on so far, numbers the lines. Clearly every one of those countries were WRONG.

Exactly - imagine the nonsense of naming the bus routes in London - it's hard enough remembering the numbers. ...perhaps this is part of tfl's plan to further discourage our elder population from attempting to use the rail network by making it impossible to navigate?

The Overground rebranding was clever and necessary but it looks like tfl was duped into burning up £6 million in a sequel that nobody wants. There couldn't have been consultation with the passengers, because everyone who uses the Goblin Line knows it by the name. Now it will be called the Sufragette Line, which is ironic as we had to suffer awful service when it used to be the North London Line. How can we explain to tourists to take the Weaver Line and the Windrush Line etc. It was confusing beforehand

I do recognise that shapes but I don't know where that goes on the 73

I would buy the Network Rail version (31233?) if Bachmann could get scale, working IR lamps... ... which may not be good for Accurascale's pre orders

Well then it should be an easy win for the manufacturers. Where do I sign up for pre orders?

Thank you for following up - some quick research revealed this (link) Supercap at £1.83 a shot, probably not the best option out there but for me the price is right and I don't have to work with SMT components They are even cheaper on AliExpress but the shipping takes longer. eg (link) Supercap

Class 312 Class 313 Class 315 Class 317

Andy, thank you for starting this topic. Initially I found I was going to write a very long answer but then I realised the better answer to your question is who is going to save our hobby? Well okay Andy yourself and your team's incredible efforts to maintain RMWeb for a start. In fact I am going to look at subscribing because I think RMWeb is good value content I have enjoyed and taken for granted for a while AND it must have saved me a lot of time trouble and money over the years from buying duff models. Hattons gone, Warley gone, RMWeb next...? Hopefully not.

We have Model of the Year on RMWeb - perhaps we should have a Raspberry award - although I think the Moderators would not allow it?

Just been reading this post and reliving my own nightmares and a summary for those who have just read this thread and don't want to go through it all. Capacitor burning through the body shell, bogies on power cars which derail even when running by themselves, pantograph which fell apart as soon as it was touched, a tilting mechanism which can't tilt if you install a dcc chip and a lighting strip with a visible capacitor which scaled to the size of a small satellite. All for £400. Usually you would spend that amount and find those faults on ten different, individual models but Hornby's innovation was to include them all on the APT and then burn up money on TV soft marketing to sell us it. However 2nd batch addressed a lot of those issues; Redgate models provide a good alternative pantograph and TXS decoders offer possibility of affordable sound but.... I was only lured back after reading reviews on here. Anyone buying first batch beware beware!

Agreed - it looks really good. I don't know what it is about that box and the EWS logo but it reminds me of something...

This is a political decision. Governments in the EU are currently chasing up the short term property rental market, AirBnB etc, as the potential revenues in those cases are huge amounts. However to avoid those companies complaining of greed and hypocrisy, the Tax rules have now also to be applied fairly to other businesses such as eBay etc I don't think this will work out in the long run (see below) and I don't think anyone selling trains, clothes, or anything else second hand that they want to get rid of will need to worry (unless they actually are trading in high volumes). If HMRC demand tax on the sales amount I can see individuals trading as self employed and demand tax relief on everything from internet, heating, seller fees etc. especially as the vast majority of models, clothes, cars are depreciating in value and selling at relative loss. After all of that I can see very little of anything will remain for HMRC But HMRC will just assume most individuals will not be keeping their receipts and will just yield to automated tax demands, however if thousands and thousands of tax rebate requests start to pour in, it will cost a fortune for them to service these new proposals with a threshold of just £1000 and I expect very quickly it will rise towards £5000

Seen both the Gbrf and the RTC on the Goblin lines on RHTT duties....onteresting liveries and did sound very much like a 66....

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