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  1. Metropolitan
    The three bits of news we have had are not necessarily related. Hattons to close, Hornbys 2024 catalogue and Warley. Hattons have lost, what, 15% of their sales because of the loss of Bachmann? Hornby's lacklustre catalogue, no idea although this may have affected Hattons decision? And then there is Warley with a lack of volunteers. Why would this be I wonder? How welcomed and appreciated did the management make those who did volunteer feel? How eager were they to bring those volunteers into the organisation? Or was it a tyranny?
  2. Metropolitan
    You are right! But do the heritage railways let youngsters ride on the footplate? Do they let them get to touch the stuff and maybe oil up an engine? No they don't.
  3. Metropolitan
    Times change. I believe that modelling will come back as the fact that feeling or seeing something physical in your hand trumps anything on a screen. But it will be a long time. And I can't see how the the real world railway system we have now is going to inspire young modellers. It's no good blaming the media. The only people allowed anywhere near anything interesting are old,
  4. Metropolitan
    Fair enough.
  5. Metropolitan
    Why are my posts being deleted?
  6. Metropolitan
    The problem is that the online world has usurped hobbies like model railways. For instance I have Train Sim World, but ultimately found that, in the end, it is in no way a replacement to having physical real objects to own and enjoy. It may be a few years away but my guess is that the emptiness of online replacement activities will become evident and will fade. Young people will again realise that real things are, well, just much more fun.
  7. Metropolitan
    Ah.
  8. Metropolitan
    Am I imaging it or do I correctly recall that, some years ago, Hornby announced that they were bringing production of their models back to the UK? What happened?
  9. Metropolitan
    I've fitted a power bank to the HM7000 and I must say that it's a flawless runner and that I haven't found any of the issues mentioned above in this thread.
  10. Metropolitan
    Or forums.😀
  11. Metropolitan
    Nice to know. I must have missed them.
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  13. Metropolitan
    New commercial people. Not hobbyists. Where are all the young people entering the hobby as you suggested? I don't expect it matters.
  14. Metropolitan
    Where?
  15. Metropolitan
    Oh I have. And that's great. But I've also noticed that the hobby's backbone, Hornby, isn't investing in new models bar one. And they ain't daft. TT is a gamble which may or may not pay off. Looking at my SR RTR loco collection I note that I have 12 Hornby, 6 Bachman/EFE, 3 Dapol, 1 Oxford Rail and one Kernow with one from Rapido due this year.
  16. Metropolitan
    Really very sad news. And worrying. I've been away from the hobby until recently after a fifteen ish year break. And I have found that there is little new blood. It's the same old familiar names. It's a very expensive hobby and with housing so difficult for the young how many, nowadays, have the space for a layout?
  17. Metropolitan
    True enough. I should know his name because my bookshelves are groaning with his books. Some good, some bad.
  18. Metropolitan
    I'm going to shim the front and rear axles with some nylon m2 washers. The side play is certainly excessive.
  19. Metropolitan
    Lacked the K? Not according to the 100000000000 books he published. 😀
  20. Metropolitan
    Ah! Well according to O S Knock the term is Box-pox? (British Locomotives of the 20th Century, Vol 2 page 151) Hence my use of it.
  21. Metropolitan
    This is a great model. The Box-pox wheels have been reproduced.
  22. Metropolitan
    So interesting! What a great thread!
  23. Metropolitan
    Sadly the HM7000 only has a profile for a 73.
  24. Metropolitan
    HM7000 easy to fit. The class 73 sound profile is better than nowt and the function map is appropriate bar the lack of whistle! But I will be fitting a power bank. I thought I could get away without one but no, not really.
  25. Metropolitan
    I don't suppose you can remember what they sounded like? I'm guessing that they made an awful din and sounded quite unlike a silky modern EMU as we might imagine?
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