NXEA!

I’ll second an LNER E4 and GER corridor coaches please!

Don’t disagree with that logic, but as we already have a high-quality 150 the Turbostar family is the DMU open goal for me. Geographically widespread, multitude of operators past and present, more liveries than you can shake a stick at, another 10-15 years of life left, baffles me that no one has announced one to the latest standards. For an EMU a RTR 313 is in the same category, baffling omission from mainstream OO.

Kelvedon and Ipswich stations on the Great Eastern both have platforms that go over a road at the country end.

Was just browsing Flickr, and here’s an absolute cracker if someone wants to recreate using a Bachmann 90: And another unusual formation in GNER days:

Just checked my account and my order for the exclusive Liverpool Street pilot is showing due for payment on the 23rd… interesting!

A trawl online did turn up a photo of 78028 at Huntingdon East en-route to Clacton. https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p645313931/hb5cdb0fc Question is whether it worked through! The more I look at the Hornby model the more I’m tempted…

Exactly the same scenario I’m pondering! I’ll have a trawl through some of the various books I’ve got tonight.

Very nice. For those like me that don’t know that much about wagons I assume you would find these anywhere across the UK?

Fair enough. The follow-up question to that would then be does anyone have any photos or reports? Would love to see photos as I’d love to justify buying one.

I’m reading the latest issue of Model Rail and it has an article on the 2MT’s in which it states that 78028/029 of Leicester Midland shed were used on East Anglian excursion traffic and the article name checks Clacton-On-Sea. Has anyone ever seen photos or reports of this happening previously? Not heard of this previously, and the ones which were shedded on the GE 78022-025 were at Stratford (and then March) were only allocated for a few months and don’t appear to have ever been used. A 2MT also seems to be a bit of a small loco to use on heavy excursion traffic so it seems a bit doubtful to me. Any insight would be appreciated.

Bachmann would be a good shout for a 153, fits well with their 158 and current lean towards the modern scene.

Hadn’t seen this, but very pleased! Great choice. Have ridden on the real things quite literally hundreds of times in East Anglia, whether for trips to London, getting to college, then later commuting for work or on my way to see family dotted all over East Anglia. Always used to make a beeline for the pantograph area and enjoy the scream of the traction motors, very much missed. I have only modelled East Anglian steam to date, but I think I’ll have to build a small Southminster-inspired layout just for this, and get a sound version. Special request from me for something East Anglian liveried in the first batch please, would absolutely love FGE but would also be happy with NXEA or Greater Anglia liveries. And if not, if you do Silverlink or LM in the first batch, any chance of choosing a Silverlink set between 321421-437 (321415/416 also went on hire in Silverlink livery) or one of 321411/417 in London Midland please, as these operated out of Liverpool Street in those liveries at various times. Very pleased, and hope it sells well!

5Dublo2’s post on 13th Feb suggests a TXS chip is too long and too wide without surgery.

Any news on when the decorated samples will be shared at all? Hope that doesn’t come across impatient, I’m just excited for their arrival! 😁

Blue D5578 please! 😀 Looking forward to Friday and the others to come this year.

That’s the one that I really want - was hoping it’d be in the Collectors Club today. Oh well, I’m sure someone will do it sooner or later!

I notice they’ve even duplicated one of the Accurascale efforts, 31407 in Mainline Blue. Question is whether they’ll be able to outsell Accurascale, given theirs is an AS exclusive and Bachmann’s will be more widely available.

Accurascale are doing 31409 with white stripe. https://www.accurascale.com/products/br-brush-ee-type-2-class-31-locomotive-br-blue-white-stripe-31409

I’d say 08 and 20 are the other big flagship diesels (ignoring the HST which is in the iconic category). Bachmann have the 20 market cornered, however it does feel like a new 08 is only a matter of time, despite the existing Hornby and Bachmann efforts already being excellent. Question is, who will get there first?

Great news, well done all involved. Just the Genesis coaches to find a home for now - and hopefully the stillborn Genesis bogie coach project too!

We’ll have to agree to disagree - I have D5579 in Ochre from Kernow and I think it’s great. You pays your money and you takes your choice!

Usually I don’t comment negatively as it’s up to manufacturers to decide what they’re going to produce and whether it’s commercially viable, and I’m all for competition but can’t help but feel a bit disappointed and slightly baffled. There’s plenty of choice out there to either do something brand new to OO gauge RTR or something due an upgrade, but they’re choosing to compete against Accurascale again (who’s project has been well known about for a long time), and as we’ve seen with the 37’s the market appears oversaturated and it will happen again with these. Not only that, as nice as the Accurascale model is it’s a little debatable whether an upgrade was that necessary given the Hornby model is high fidelity and very very good - so we’re expecting the market to support three high-quality models at a time when prices are going up steeply and there is a lot of pressure on modellers wallets. Seems unnecessarily risky to me, plenty of other choice to go at which is disappointing. But best of luck to Bachmann and I hope it’s a success for them - whichever one of the three manufacturers chooses to do D5578 in experimental blue will get my money.

I think that’s what he means. I’m hoping for a Next18 version in plain green!

It’s interesting how people’s perception differs because I think the face of the new Hornby VEP looks more convincing than the TC to my eye!

37422 in the Collectors Club is still available, so unlikely I would say. https://www.Bachmann-collectorsclub.co.uk/site/search?q=37422