CUCKOO LINE

We're there not some LBSCR push pull sets that survived well into BR days ? As used on Cuckoo line ?

Just had another prompt delivery from Derails, asked to delay sending for a day which they did. Economy normally sent RM 48hr tracked which from them to me seems to work well. Anyone using it first time Derails don't give you the tracking number but you get emails from RM once they,ve got it and also an email on the day of delivery. If you have the RM tracker app it also seems tomwutomatically appear in it. Mostly good prices and so far reliable on preorders. Any queries normally find a quick reply.

Now seem to have reached the Forest of Dean, hooray !

Website suggests now only closed Sundays and Bank Holidays so a lot better hours now.

If they constantly refer to Peters Spares then they should put spares there every time they bring out something new

All I can remember was that late 1960s early 70s it was run by a guy who seemed to continually find bargains, the story ai heard was that he spent a large amount of time scouring for redundant stock etc. It used to be packed floor to ceiling with kits and railway stuff. When I lived near Hailsham it was always on the agenda when Eastbourne was visited. He always seemed to be a bit of a Del boy but always friendly. Could have been Ken , not sure but I believe he got ill and sadly passed on. There must be modellers in Eastbourne who know more, whenever I visited there seemed to be some regulars chatting to him. Nice to see it back open , will have to visit on our annual sussex holiday, looks like the opening hours are more flexible for visiting too

Based on subsequent events and speed at which they happenned I suspect Hattons did have some ideas on what was going to happen to some of the moulds. I would have thought commercial negotiations would have prevented them giving any clues at the announcement date.

Picked it up from TMC and Rapido facebook pages

Good to see some of the ex Hattons people appearing elsewhere, so far seen a couple on TMC and Rapido now just picked one up.

Probably listening to the bits they wanted to and then making 2 + 2 = 8 , not uncommon for the so called popular press. I thought he said elsewhere he was not pleased with Warley giving up and he would have been prepared to help. Re the April show thought he was comitted to that before Warley announcement anyway with his extended layout.

See 2 or 3 posts back

Did the ship dock ?

Seems to me it us pretty standard practice for most shows to have a balance of traders and layouts and advertise as such. For me these days with it not being easy just to pop into a well stocked local model shop, although I can get a lot on line it is still nice to browse and 3xam8ne real hardware etc rather than pictures and often get some inspiration for odd things that I wouldn,t have otherwise thought about, plus those things that adding postage makes less economical sense. So to me a good show needs a good balance of quality layouts and a good variety of traders. For example I can't see that the good mix for me at Bristol has changed much since Warners took over.

I think they quoted that they can only maintain these prices by going direct for these batches

Weren't the 0 gauge A3 and A4 etc done in conjunction with Heljan though ? so a bit more complicated story and history I believe

And the Accurascale warranty

All now sold out on preorder

All Hattons originals now sold out on preorder

Or the profits are declining each year and we've reach the point to stop and get out before we enter the loss making cycle,

I think 2 p.m. was the deadline

If yours is the one on the bottom it will be squatter and fatter than the one on the top !

Certainly for me when there preorders went to pot because of these relationships it forced me to look elsewhere and the service and reliability on preorders with those meant I ended up ordering little from Hattons since then. The main benefit of using Hattons was the trunk, but if they didn't get the preorders I wanted then it wasn't really useful.

My order of 12th Jan packed early this afternoon

Royal Mail do deliver tracked 24 hr delivery and certain special delivery items on Sundays since some time during last year

Seems a long 10-15 days , assume its the slow boat from China?