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  1. Some dedicated people have set up websites where you can find out info like that but they tend to cover just one manufacturer. The excellent Triang and Egger-Bahn ones spring to mind.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Johan DC said:

    I'll survive, but it was the last shop where EU-residents could shop without extra tax/customs etc. Now it's more Modelbahnunion for me, or straight from the respective sources. 

     

    From what I've seen in the last few pages I suspect it's going to be more overseas buyers that will miss them more than UK buyers, whilst they will be missed by us in the UK there's already plenty of alternatives, it seems that's not the case for UK modellers overseas. Maybe someone will fill the gap, maybe not.

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    56 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said:

    I notice a bit of glee in your post.

     

    You didn't, what you did do, though, was read something into the post that wasn't there. 

     

    I was simply "smiling" at his comment about it being "downhill" from here, nothing more, and certainly not wishing for other shops to follow suit. In fact as I commented there are other shops available which are as good, it's not the end of the world, an era, perhaps, but not the world.

  4. 12 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

    They haven't failed.  They're just pulling out of the market.  They're still solvent.

     

    11 hours ago, johnofwessex said:

    Richard Davies said that the Hattons Management could not find a way to make any bits of the business profitable.

     

    ?

     

    Or does it just mean that their assets exceeded their debts...

  5. When I made the comment it was specifically about people driving onto crossings and then turning onto the tracks.

     

    As I said I've seen plenty of evidence of that in the USA and some in Aus but apart from that one incident a few years back at Brockenhurst I can't remember many in the UK, certainly not recently, and I've not seen any evidence of it happening a lot over the Channel. Russia i could understand after seeing a programme of dash cams from over there!

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  6. And mainly in the USA with a few Australian ones thrown in, the only recent one I can think of in the UK was that one at Brockenhurst a few years ago. Without the US and Aussie posts this thread would be dead!

     

    Is it just those two countries where stupidity at level crossings predominate or are there similar incidents in, for instance, Mainland Europe?

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  7. I'd have thought it would have less capacity than the shipping route, I agree with Apollo that a rail route would be far worse both for capacity and volume. I doubt the rail route would be able to handle the shear volume of containers on that route. Just looking it up it seems that "New Panamax" ships which will fit through the new locks on that canal carry up to 14000 containers, on the Suez they can carry over that and up to 25000! That's an awful lot of trains, don't even think about lorries!

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  8. 21 hours ago, 31A said:

    In another episode (sorry can't remember which one) they filmed some railway scenes in Belgium on I believe the CF3V line, Mariembourg-Treignies.  At least it looks a bit more like France than the Czech Republic does!  The SNCB station at Binche also featured in one of them.  From the credits at the end it looks as though TV production companies from Belgium, Czech and Switzerland as well as France were involved in making the series.

     

    I think that was the one where he went to some relations in Belgium to find out who'd killed someone as his wife's family was being blamed. I checked out where it was filmed as it looked Belgian rather than "somewhere else pretending to be Belgium" and it turned out to be a small town outside Brussels. They also had the episode where there was a tram featured quite heavily. IMBD is usually quite good to find locations for the various episodes.

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  9. Late to the party, so I'm not sure if this is still on the go!

     

    I lived in Hutton and then Longton as a child in the 60s and "collected" many relics from the railway after it shut. I notice you've said you are using bullhead rail, but many of my relics were the J clamps used on flat bottom rail which is borne out by photos of the line in the 60s showing FB rail on the main line. However you've not said what era the model is in and the sidings may well be BH!

     

    I've always wondered why no-one has made a model of Fishergate Hill Station in Preston, it seemed and interesting prototype and I ca remember sneaking into it in the 70s!

  10. Based on that they are a year or two ahead. Three locos within first year. If they do get the 50 and HST out this year they'll still be ahead by a year.

     

    It's the internet that's the difference, back then there was nowhere for modellers to vent their frustration other than the magazines which probably wouldn't have bothered printing the letter but just told them to be patient!! Such is progress... Or not... 😉

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  11. 13 hours ago, J-Lewis said:

    New liveries for the container wagon look good.  Strange there is no mention of the Arnold Class 66?   Perhaps it’s slipped to 2025?  There was supposed to be an Arnold Class 65 set with three container wagons releasing this year.

     

    As it's a Hornby model which Arnold will be marketing in European liveries it's not surprising that they wouldn't pre-empt any Hornby announcement which as we know has been put back to April. I'd expect any announcement on the Arnold version to come at the same time as the Hornby one.

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