RMweb Premium rab Posted January 18, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2022 Every cloud has a silver lining: https://www.facebook.com/104634726236534/posts/5059234824109808/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nearholmer Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Beer’s famous model railway manufacturing company Peco has recently opened a new 260 square metre factory space to expand productivity as global demand for its products increase. The former indoor soft play area at Pecorama – the tourist attraction adjoining the Peco manufacturing site – has had a complete refit and is now a vital production area, including point assembly lines, miniature welding, packing and printing stations. 3 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted January 21, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, Nearholmer said: Beer’s famous model railway manufacturing company Peco has recently opened a new 260 square metre factory space to expand productivity as global demand for its products increase. The former indoor soft play area at Pecorama – the tourist attraction adjoining the Peco manufacturing site – has had a complete refit and is now a vital production area, including point assembly lines, miniature welding, packing and printing stations. As shown in progress during their video update on YouTube a few months back,:- https://youtu.be/cpOxSb9Bh9A Edited January 22, 2022 by spamcan61 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted January 21, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2022 Not so good for young families when it’s raining though 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 I presume Peco's management will have seen the monetary value from the usage of the play area versus using it for production, and made a decision that production made more financial sense. That suggests the usage of the play area just wasn't worth keeping it going. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hayfield Posted January 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2022 Is it not great that rather than moving production abroad Peco for some time now have been investing in their own facilities of design and production, and now increasing it further Hornby on the other hand are repurposing their old factory into a museum 1 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, hayfield said: Is it not great that rather than moving production abroad Peco for some time now have been investing in their own facilities of design and production, and now increasing it further Hornby on the other hand are repurposing their old factory into a museum Partly because Peco's products lend themselves to production in the UK - Hornby's highly detailed and complex ones, do not. None of Peco's RTR locos have ever been made in the UK, for instance. Also, Hornby are not repurposing their old factory into a museum. The person who owns it, and rents office space to Hornby is doing that. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Peco has been a well run family business which both seems to have escaped being swallowed up by a larger concern and slowly built up several well thought of and popular ranges, their investment in their businesses in recent years seems far away from the mindset of many companies throughout most industries in the UK in keeping everything in house rather than outsource as much as possible to gain a short term financial advantage. Good luck to them, and of course to the new management in Hornby 4 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Yes well done Peco. It’s great to see a company that has kept most production in the UK and has kept itself as a family owned business doing well. Pecorama is a kind of add on to the core business so it makes sense that Peco manufacturing gets priority. I have taken the grandchildren to Pecorama twice. Both times we planned to stay a few hours but ended up being there all day. I am sure that, even without the soft play area there is enough to keep most families happy for most of the day. The soft play area also housed a large brio set. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 6 hours ago, Ian J. said: I presume Peco's management will have seen the monetary value from the usage of the play area versus using it for production, and made a decision that production made more financial sense. That suggests the usage of the play area just wasn't worth keeping it going. There's also the issue of cleaning more regularly and intensively in a 'post-Covid' world, meaning the 'soft-play' becomes more costly to operate. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 I'm sure needing more production space was the driver for the change and cleaning costs merely an incidental. Lets face it we all moan if we can't get Peco points when we need them so more production facilities is a good thing. I see the indoor restaurant has also been taken out of service, I assume for more production space. This kind of makes Pecorama less of an all weather attraction but really it was always a place to go on a nice day rather than an iffy day. Even though a couple of buildings have been repurposed I still hope to take the grandchildren to Pecorama again this summer; it will still be a grand day out. My grandson loved that Brio upstairs in the soft play building. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertcwp Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Good news. We might even see the bullhead medium-radius points, crossings and slips at long last. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted February 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 11, 2022 On 22/01/2022 at 12:50, Chris M said: Both times we planned to stay a few hours but ended up being there all day. I am sure that, even without the soft play area there is enough to keep most families happy for most of the day. Especially Whit Weekend when there's a classis car event on the Sunday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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