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£41 for an O gauge point......we'll need a defibrulator on this topic soon.

With an ageing customer base they might not like it to be too long a timescale. Just picking Hattons it shows a length of track as the same price (£3). I do note that for a large L/R it is £12, I'd be surprised if the new BH one's were that price.

I spoke to Bill on the Rapido stand and the drive is to the 8' driver and the trailing wheel so effectively a 4-4-0, the motor is in the firebox. After all the difficulties I've had in motorising GN singles I'm interested to see this.

That's pretty much what I thought, it took Peco quite some years to get to the range they have now and I read some of the posts thinking that within say 12-18 months it'll be the same for BH. I did like the track but at present I don't actually need any.

I'm guessing you know the reason for the thicker cab walls now ....saw you speaking to Bill..... didn't want to interupt. EP looked really good and interesting how they're doing the drive too, beyond me for my attempt.

Looking in the cabinet on Sunday and the new track is certainly an improvement over Peco's current product, I have used Exactoscale and when I returned home and compared the pic I had with what I've laid I would still have gone with the Exacto as I do think it looks better. But for those that don't want to put their own together then the Peco will be fine. The turnout is hopefully just a "rough" EP as there are a few issues with it and being able to mass produce it may mean losing the single blade and returning to a pivot. In conversation it was not so much what was said but what wasn't. If it looks good I would quite possibly use them if I was building anything but I still think that some are going to have a sharp intake of breath with the cost as it is not going to be in the same price bracket as the current range. Simply paying for the tooling they are investing in is going to preclude that.

At the back in the blue shirt.

I tend to watch quite a few kits and bits and that's probably about the right price, there are some on 'Buy it now' which are greatly overvalued and have been on sale for upwards of 12-18 months but if they don't sell after that time then their too expensive. I won't bid more than approx 50% of the value of the parts for sale as you can't guarantee what you'll get if it's been started, or if not started that all is in the box.

Travelling back today from Norfolk and the queue on the single lane section leading to Caxton Gibbett was 1 mile plus and we'd missed most of the peak traffic. There is already a bus service from Cambridge to Bedford, MK and Oxford, it's the X5 with 31 stops, Cambridge to Bedford is 1H20M Bedford to MK station is 55M and MK to Oxford is 1H 20M it's approx hourly. On this section (East) I'd actually say that Cambridge is the destination rather than MK

Email them, I'm sure they'll respond. Although I'll guess they read this anyway.

I know someone who said he was "going to work in Silicon valley" turns out he got his wife implants...

Is it Organic Wheatabix or is that going 'finescale'

Although you've got the right colour if it picks the grain out it would be way out of scale. Don't forget to take the bark off.....

I'll try it this way, it's the engineering summary report. Engineering Summary Report.pdf

Re the first bit, although to an occasional user it might seem a bit naff it has made some improvements, before the lights traffic would queue on a Friday for 2 miles on the Northbound carriageway as the South to West would cut across in a constant stream at the BC. Now with the lights interupting that flow the tailback is cut to approx 3/4 of a mile and it moves. Where it used to be 45 minute to access the BC it's now down to about 10. Same for the A428 approaching BC, it could on a Friday queue for 4 miles as there was no access but now the lights have broken the traffic stream it's cut that by half. Certainly not perfect but a bit better for those of us who have no choice but to use it. I don't think this has been posted but I have a feeling it's getting closer than you realise and that funding will be found. https://mail2.virginmedia.com/appsuite/api/mail/Engineering%20Summary%20Report.pdf?action=attachment&folder=default0%2FSent&id=2420&attachment=2&delivery=view

Agree about the railway route but you've obviously not been from the A1 to Cambridge for a while, still single carriageway from the A1 to Caxton Gibbet. The Black cat is improved but it was only meant to be slight fix as the re-routing of the A1 is the only way to fix it properly. Living in Sandy I can't wait for East West to happen

I find this discussion interesting as while it's good to see Peco producing better proportioned BH track there has been no mention of cost and yet people are convinced that it will be cheaper than C&L/Exacto/SMP who already produce this. The market for this track against their existing range is much smaller and I wonder over what time period they expect to recoup the tooling costs. I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't £6-8 a length possibly more.

That's what I've had. And yes I did have to think what it meant for a few seconds...........innit...

Tnx......or.....TY

The first part is your answer. I don't have any information on "Factory" rates but I can say that a shop we purchased that is undergoing conversion to residential (it's out of town and solitary) had a rates bill last year of £2540, this year there has been a business rates review and the same premises is now £3651 It has approx 300 square feet of retail space. I somehow doubt there are the same costs in China.

I thought that Peco were actually reducing the number of sleepers per metre yard thereby saving money on plastic.....it'll only lead to complaints.

I like what you achieve with the "Cut and shuts" they really look the part, room is looking good too.

It's based on this small shunter.

Will you have to do several and put them in a circle?

You'll be lonely then.