Not Captain Kernow

As a matter of interest, how many of those are due in the next three months?

319s have only ever had shoes on the leading bogie

That is exactly how it will work. Bachmann were very clear they would only announce items due within 3 months at each quarterly announcement, and that includes new tooling items.

They are Class 108s, a two and a three car attached.

I was constantly asked at exhibitions if I was Captain Kernow. I got so used to saying I was not Captain Kernow it seemed a very logical user name when I joined here!

Because they are Hornby Website Exclusives. Hornby failed to provide the information that these were exclusive to the Hornby website on the information provided in the slides that Andy has posted at the start of this thread. Several retailers added these to their sites assuming Hornby had missed them from their order forms (errors are not unknown in the early days of the new announcement) but then subsequently removed them again once they were advised they could not order them. You will have to ask Hattons why they continue to list them.

Definitely - it was 1X00 when we conveyed HM from Moorgate to Luton Airport and that was in 1999.

Gaugemaster have sold out of these models so I am sure they are devastated by your cancellation!

Paddington to Penzance Night Riviera was the only WR usage by this time, generally just a single GUV as well. Not WR, but they were also used on the Scottish overnights, image below shows them being shunted at Euston after working in overnight.

Correct, best image I have is this When on our training scheme back in the 1980s, we were sent out on our free pass from Waterloo to have a day of discovery and report back the next day. One of the lads came back saying they had travelled on a train with strange bunk beds, which we worked out meant he travelled from Guildford to Gatwick on a Class 119 in the former buffet coach!

When I travelled on the Cumbrian Coast Statesman in September it picked up at Derby, Long Eaton, Attenborough, Beeston, Illkeston, Alfreton, Chesterfield, Chinley, New Mills Central and Manchester Victoria. A good number picked up at every one of those stations, so perhaps they have a good idea about where their market is!

Yet he already operates a regular Statesman service which is always virtually sold out. This will be just an extension of that but will allow 125mph running so be much easier to path on the modern railway. I have already booked a couple of trips on it - no better way to see the Central Wales line!

They are however mentioned in the video as expected in December or January from memory, so probably just an error that they have come off the website.

Is it not a pun on Luxton from On the Buses? Probably avoids licence issues?

If they reach Grampound Road it will be nothing short of a miracle! Let alone Gwinear Road! However the funding they have received is nothing to do with this and is actually related to the COVID situation, which Bodmin and the West Somerset have also been successful in receiving a grant.

I was also involved in the commissioning of these units. As part of this I had to time mileage accumulation and driver training trips. This involved three round trips from Salisbury to Waterloo, commencing after the morning peak. The fourth and final trip of the day was Salisbury to Basingstoke and return, because it would otherwise arrive at Waterloo slap bang in the middle of the peak with no platform or return path available. On the first day that this commenced the first three trips went well, then the fourth trip reached Basingstoke but instead of reversing carried on up the fast. Basingstoke Panel didn't think to tell anyone this, so the unit carried on through Woking (who also observed it running like a stag up the fast but again ignored it), Surbiton who also left it run, before it appeared on the Waterloo panel who had nowhere to put it! The result was it ended up stuck in a platform at Waterloo in the middle of the peak and totally blew the service for the rest of the evening, which gave the Evening Standard the chance to drag out their "Chaos at Waterloo" headline once again! I also have one of these Bachmann units for no other reason than to remind me of my time working with these.

That was North Crofty Junction Bill, start of the North Crofty branch. Dolcoath siding was next to Dolcoath level crossing. More about it here http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/the-north-crofty-branch.html

How can there be a massive price hike on something without a price?

That is not the way Bachmann work now though. They will only announce things which are due in the next 3 months. So it could be announced in November for example, and be here by February or sooner.

Yes this film must be relatively old. The platform at St Erth is pre-rebuild and the timetable has since been amended so that most trains call at Carbis Bay and more call at Lelant, whereas Lelant Saltings now has the bare minimum service.

I think it is the RMweb version of Godwin's law - every discussion on products ends up with someone wittering on about the price!

True, but the five versions available were the least popular liveries, and not one of those liveries is in the new releases.

The built item never fitted into the previous boxes either?

They were not printed on. The base livery was applied as normal and weathering was applied over this, so each model was slightly different. The new versions applied are exactly the same, the images of the new models are on the press release and websites already showing this, You can see them on the Kernow website for example http://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/pg/115/JIA-NACCO-Wagon

A Class 59 is similar ish to a Class 66, but you would not really get away with just painting one up as the other. They may look similar to you, they are different wagons. They were built by the same builder, three years apart. The brake equipment on the ends are different, the walkways are different, the hopper cover is different, the opening and closing equipment on the ends are different and the bodyside pipe work is different. You can of course run what you like if you are not worried about it, but you cannot argue that they are the same wagon, they are not.