Hroth Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Perhaps they're thinking of re-introducing TT3? With 29 new locos and associated rolling stock... Yes officer, its a fair cop, I'll come quietly. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWR8700 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 (edited) You do all realise that at the moment there are 51 FTPE Class 185 units but sometime after 2019 when the new FTPE Mk5+Class 68 trains enter service they intend to return 22 of the 51, which makes 29 left with FTPE. The tweeted image of some form of modern unit plus "29 surprises"? Could it be quite so cryptic? Interesting, Who is it they are giving them to by the way? Edited May 4, 2018 by GWR8700 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les1952 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 What class of loco or type of multiple unit has 29 members? Just a thought which might be off at a tangent to everyone else.... Les Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted May 4, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 4, 2018 29 wheels.....it’s not another rail mounted gun is it. Just what we need Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig1989 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 I’m hoping for nr coaches northern Bell coaches northern bell 67s and a db 60 but am I wishing a bit to much Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Interesting, Who is it they are giving them to by the way? Back to the leasing company. It'll be interesting to see where they end up as they have a bit of a weight problem which prevents them from taking advantage of the differential speed limits on some routes for Sprinters. I do wonder if they might end up with whoever is going to get the Welsh franchise, a fleet of 22 fairly new high-quality and pretty reliable units would do wonders for the North Wales to Manchester/Cardiff capacity and could still be maintained at the existing depot. Sorry, off topic, and too logical. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted May 4, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 4, 2018 or:It's the first semi-final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest from Lisbon and Hornby International are to launch a Lisbon tram in RTR. or: wiser heads have prevailed, the UK act has been ditched and Hornby International is the replacement singer with a heart-rending ditty about two mismatched tension lock couplings finding love. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcoblanco Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 finally realised 'brexit' will never happen..? lol.. well feels like it !! Id say get on with an elite class 37, smoke , the best technology in sound and speakers... Hornbys 'Black Label' just a dream , 37 needs updating .. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 4, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 4, 2018 3 days to go....................I am so excited :yahoo: :yahoo: "Thomas the Return" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenman Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 3 days to go....................I am so excited :yahoo: :yahoo: ... “I’m about to lose control and I think I like it...” Er. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJennings Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 A loco or unit that has carried 29 liveries? Was a while back the rumour of a newly tooled class 86 though not sure how many liveries the prototype has carried though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 What class of loco or type of multiple unit has 29 members? Just a thought which might be off at a tangent to everyone else.... Les I suddenly thought GWR manors. But nope that's 30, 7800 to 7829. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reevesthecat Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Can't see it being more than the adoption of some of the oxford rail tooling maybe with the odd new tool / model thrown in. Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Flynn Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 29th steam locomotive on web site J15 Hornby enter O gauge with first highly detailed steam locomotive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 or: wiser heads have prevailed, the UK act has been ditched and Hornby International is the replacement singer with a heart-rending ditty about two mismatched tension lock couplings finding love. Last time we got a model railway manufacturer to write our entry it went well: it came last and he had a hissy-fit about it. Yes Waterman I mean you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 5, 2018 I'm becoming increasingly concerned about the approach of A (for announcement ) Day because while it will at least bring an end to 'I wanna xxxxxxx' we will lose all the totally bonkers fun posts as well and they will be replaced by a series of moans about 'why didn't they do an xxxx', 'what do they think they're doing?', 'why are they announcing that in yet another livery when the shelves are creaking with unsold ones?', don't they realise there are actually diesel and electric traction modellers out there?', 'don't they know Pre-Group steam outline models sell like hot cakes?', 'why are they reissuing it with the same number?', 'why bother to announce they were going to announce that?', 'is that all it is?', 'nothing in that lot for me', 'well that's some of my money they won't be getting this year', 'cor - what a great idea', 'wow, i Like that' and so on and so forth. But all the fun bits of this thread will be lost - perhaps we should ask for a preservation order to ensure that it doesn't vanish once the embargo is lifted and the news is conveyed to us lot. ('embargo?' I hear you say - yes there really is one if the closeness of my ears to the ground is working properly.) Cor it's just like the olden days of Hornby yet again - do they really still think that all these commissioned models are just a passing fad that won't last and that the various newcomers to the market aren't actually competing with them for sales and attention? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
159220 Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Oh this has been an entertaining read! How there can be 19 pages is beggars belief. But a positive that Hornby can still cause so much interest! For those who said the Docklands Light Railway drawing was a Siemens product are technically wrong. It is not Siemens who call a motor bogie a TDG but it is the standard technical term used in Germany for a motor bogie. Thus, the B07 Bombardier DLR stock is actually the line drawing shown by 'Isle Twitter': 1 728 01 00 00 0 00 0 DRW 04 000 1.pdf It has made me giggle those who said Siemens this, Siemens that. Though I do share the comments about a class 374 Eurostar E320 (utterly gorgeous train with more than 17 likely to be ordered, though likely out of the price range for a 'toy' set, so it better have an etched metal working pantograph!!) or the class 185 TransPennine (limited spread having been used only on TP route since introduced). Anyway, I shall go back to being entertained by the over-thinking on what 29 surprises means.... Have a good Bank Holiday! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewCarty Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 I suddenly thought GWR manors. But nope that's 30, 7800 to 7829. I had that thought too! There are 9 members of the class preserved and they are very popular, so that would surely help create some interest in the models. We can always hope someone at Hornby isn't very good at maths! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil gollin Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 ....... once the embargo is lifted and the news is conveyed to us lot. ('embargo?' I hear you say - yes there really is one if the closeness of my ears to the ground is working properly.) ...... . Well ! As one of Hornby's clues was to "keep your ears to the ground" - it would seem that Hornby will be producing a 3D model of our own Stationmaster !!!!! . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted May 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 5, 2018 . Well ! As one of Hornby's clues was to "keep your ears to the ground" - it would seem that Hornby will be producing a 3D model of our own Stationmaster !!!!! . I have never met the man. Is he narrow, standard or broad gauge? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 5, 2018 I have never met the man. Is he narrow, standard or broad gauge? Nowadays definitely somewhat broad of gauge but I can just about remember being a lot narrower and even have pictures (somewhere) to prove it. Ah here's one, used as my avatar as it happens, and if you click to enlarge it you can see that I easily fitted in the gap between the handrail on a 'Castle' cab and the handrail at the leading end of the tender, with room to spare. And no need for the engine tender coupling to be adjusted to account for 2nd radius curves. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Nowadays definitely somewhat broad of gauge but I can just about remember being a lot narrower and even have pictures (somewhere) to prove it. Ah here's one, used as my avatar as it happens, and if you click to enlarge it you can see that I easily fitted in the gap between the handrail on a 'Castle' cab and the handrail at the leading end of the tender, with room to spare. And no need for the engine tender coupling to be adjusted to account for 2nd radius curves. 7029 at Coates 160587.jpg I did not know that Hornby had made a model of you. That smoke effect is very realistic. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 I did not know that Hornby had made a model of you. That smoke effect is very realistic. Photoshopped..........? Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGR Hooper! Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 I did not know that Hornby had made a model of you. That smoke effect is very realistic. Must be the very talented work of robmcg... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Must be the very talented work of robmcg... I have no knowledge of the alleged incident. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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