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My 2007 just arrived from Kernow. Very happy with the look and finish, will get on to its running qualities later

I’ve always been fond of free land liveries, so the southern one catches my eye :)

Should be there myself, looking forward to it , some of the layouts look like crackers. Does anyone know if there will be a bus shuttle from Tamworth?

A superb model - very happy with mine - please do some more :) I need some coaches to use on my Mid Sodor Layout :)

This was exactly the livery I had been waiting for. But it being a club exclusive is just too much for me - I had been hoping to pick it up for just under £200 from a box shifter, and it being just south of £250 including the membership means that this is (currently) a bit of a non starter regrettably. It looks so darn good too…

It’s obviously the Great Bear :)

Not so fictional - they have appeared in BR livery in preservation :) so technically it will just be accurate modelling :) (Not my photos, as always, please message me for removal if they are yours and they will be removed)

That is a neat arrangement for the speaker. Bravo Hornby

Just had a look on the website - it’s still there, but it appears to have gone quiet. The first line on the page is a request for people to stay safe during COVID, although the website shop still seems to be operating.

I believe that I read somewhere on the P2 project page that they were loading with the owners and operators of 71000 to ensure that lessons learned there would be incorporated into 2007.

Ooh dear. I’ve only got a mehano train set with 1st radius curves. Ah well, if my W1 will negotiate it then I’m sure I can get the P2 to go round, although expectations will have to be set for speed :)

Just seen some pics of 2002 that someone has had delivered over on instagram. Can confirm that no smoke deflectors are included in the model, and it therefore depicts the period before they were installed

Have a Prince of Wales coming from Kernow and a Lord President from A2B models, so hopefully they will be with me soon. They look like superb models

In defence of people who make low initial offers, I usually do chance my hand to see what discount can be obtained (assuming - not unreasonably I think that the button wouldn’t be there if the seller wasn’t willing to negotiate) but most sellers seem to have a hard time avoiding the rudeness when they respond. I’ve had plenty of answers along the lines of ‘get real’, ‘don’t waste my time’ etc. (but usually with more swear words). I have however made some genuinely good purchases. A Flying Scotsman in black this week for £187, a brand new Shakespeare express train set for £125, classic computer games and books for pennies and so on. clearly these items were selling at prices acceptable to their sellers otherwise they wouldn’t be selling at all, and I’m happy to get them at less than the going rate.

Got 1501 on order from Kernow - but am kind of hoping they don’t get sent out yet. I’m running out of money and can’t afford it until end of September :) judging by the rough six week timeframe given I think I’ll be alright, but I’ve got two P2s, a leader and a railmotor all paid for and awaiting delivery myself, so its safe to say that it was expensive for me recently :)

thank you. So I’ve got a while to wait yet. As well, the A4 will do me for the time being

A while back there was a link on this thread to a timetable of expected release dates for sound files, but the only link I can find seems to be broken. Does anyone have any info about when a W1 file might be about?

Extreme e is also having its pair of races in Sardinia this weekend. Ken Block’s daughter is making her debut in the series with the Carl Cox Motorsport team

Let’s give them a chance to mess up before we start condemning them for it shall we. It’s fairly clear that this is a work in progress

In fairness, what we are seeing as white in the picture may be either over bright cream lining or a transposition of the red/white lining from the BR Grey versions. Neither is correct of course, but as pointed out, this is a decorated sample meant to highlight issues with the livery, which KR Model’s own comments highlight in the full post

I think there is probably evidence of them being used both ways out there. However, I believe that the most common usage would have been in larger numbers grouped together as where traffic justified the use of one wagon, the chances are that there was enough stuff to shift to justify the use of many (ship arriving at port and offloading huge quantities for example)

Regrettably, you may end up losing out on that one. Until delivery has been made, the seller is deemed responsible for the item, and eBay tends to hand out refunds themselves if things haven’t arrived, regardless of if you’ve had things sent back or not

I’d try another couple of messages, but if you haven’t heard anything back by the weekend, id open up an ‘item not received’ case on eBay. whilst it is possible that the owner is unavailable due to something out of their control (hospital etc.) you’re still out of pocket. In the event of absent mindedness/holidays etc. then I don’t think that that is much of a reason personally. They are happy enough to have you pay up

Nothing that I’m aware of, although I’d expect that some samples should probably be doing the rounds this year

I believe that they may have sometimes been added to a service passenger train to reach their destination and save the trouble of a bespoke stock movement, but when the business of doing their job came about, they would have been used as single car trains