RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted December 15, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2013 A real game changer would be a finescale Volks Railway train set using clockwork. Over a period of years they will produce all of the cars used. SS Running for cover now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC&DR Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 I too would like a first generation SR EMU, preferably an ex LSWR 3Sub as lengthened on a 62 foot underframe (same broadly below the floor as the 2Bil) . A Maunsell U1 because it is sufficiently distinct from the N, A Wainwright H, and just to be different an E5000 electric. And my prediction of our likelihood of getting these. Zero percent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 ++++ News Flash ++++ Hornby announce they have been taken over by Bachmann. A formal announcement to be made at the Stock Market on opening tomorrow as to how Hornby shareholders are to be integrated into the new BachHorn brand shareholding. ++++ End of News Flash ++++ Hahaha. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 I fear my earlier carrot dangling is producing ideas far more creative and revolutionary rather than the evolutionary matter I commented upon. Rather naughty of me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted December 15, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 15, 2013 I fear my earlier carrot dangling is producing ideas far more creative and revolutionary rather than the evolutionary matter I commented upon. Rather naughty of me. Oh, right. Errrr.... double pronged tension locks? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Quite a boast. Will be interesting to see how you deliver this magnum opus to those who don't have a computer! CHRIS LEIGH Oh dear.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
backofanenvelope Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 fever pitch, sigh.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 The game changer will be a blue/grey N scale Mk3 HST buffet delivered in time for Christmas 2013. And I would like to thank Hornby for allowing me to finally complete my Western Region HST rake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
banburysaint Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 S-15, 94XX, would go down well. An industrial steam loco with plenty of character, and for me an S-160 but thats a specialist want! Operating level crossing, and decent four wheeler coaches. It would be good to see all the items come out in 2014, or Hornby actually to do a 6 quarter release programme, so that some would be planned to arrive in the first part of 2015 which might help regain faith with delivery dates. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted December 15, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2013 Ahh evolutionary.......got to be something more in dcc. Just as long as they don't forget us Luddites who after a hard day struggling with things digital, like nothing more than to turn the knob on the old controller and watch the trains go round. Looking forward to the commentary tomorrow. I'm sure it will be the best , because it has been for many years now, and above all is interactive with the additional comments. I often think mags just process a press pack with little in the way of added detail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 If we are having a MRL video, please include the modern stuff as the Bachmann video BRM did was poor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Andy added 'video' images of the NRM Compound one year which dispelled my fears of the 4-4-0 hunting its way down the track. Obviously this is one of several areas where RMweb scores over the printed press. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocoach Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 No longer just frothing...Utter foaming and dementia.... But in the morn this too will cease and turn into a moaning wake of why aren't Hornby going to make my pet loco........doesn't everyone else in the world want it too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted December 15, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2013 A real game changer would be a finescale Volks Railway train set using clockwork. Over a period of years they will produce all of the cars used. SS Running for cover now Andy said evolutionary, it must ACW, Analogue Clock Work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenman Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 In the case of Hornby's previous attempted Gresley coaches, that did not come out in Hornby's favour. With their Thompson non-gangwayed stock, it did. With a Quad-Art, I'd curse if they got it wrong again. I think that's nonsense; their "previous" Gresley coaches were the non-gangwayed Gresleys, which I think pretty much everyone considers to be some of the finest "ordinary" RTR coaching stock yet made. You may be thinking of the gangwayed Gresleys from a few years before that, which had the missing tumblehome (among other issues). For my money, the Gresley non-gangwayed coaches are even better than the more recent Thompson non-gangwayed stock. And I would definitely fancy an articulated set of some sort. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRMSOliverM Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 I'd love an S160, HO or OO. That's something I think Hornby could surprise us with... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 15, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2013 I wonder if they'll announce any upgrades to Railmaster - such as entrance-exit route setting? Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted December 15, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2013 Will you be adding photos as well Andy? Or will you make Hornby's PDF available for download as well, as per last year? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 There is a meccano advert at the bottom of the page, Hornby announce new development "if its not in our range stop moaning and build your own s*dding locomotive using our new handy range of bits of locomotives, need a Fowler Tender build it yourself, need a Stanier boiler build it yourself. We've everything you'd ever need to build it yourself, create your own wish list, froth away on your own personal site, no more there's nothing here for me, build it your s*dding self" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglian Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Evolutionary… EM R-T-R? Better scale track (scale other than in gauge) I can't wait for 10am tomorrow. If it is 3mm then I'll be on it in a flash, but I don't think it will be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 Ah ha! Maybe the game changer is DC sound! But they've done that, my first loco was Albert Hall with realistic chuff noise. It had a highly sensitive piece of sandpaper which was rubbed by a metal thingy one of the tender axles producing a highly realistic chuff noise which sped up as the train got faster. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 But they've done that, my first loco was Albert Hall with realistic chuff noise. It had a highly sensitive piece of sandpaper which was rubbed by a metal thingy one of the tender axles producing a highly realistic chuff noise which sped up as the train got faster. Oh yes I remember now. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ady77014 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 If its something evolutionary I can bet its going be to do with DDC. So i won't be interested. Maybe they come up with a replacement for the tension hook? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted December 15, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 15, 2013 Hornby don't yet know how well the 'Duke of Gloucester' and 'Cock 'o the North' will do. Whilst the Duke has been a popular and impressive performer on the network for some years, neither has anything like the profile of 'Tornado' among the general public. The P2 has been widely welcomed on this and other enthusiast forums but I am concerned that Hornby's more mainstream buyers may not be similarly impressed until the full sized new-build loco is somewhat more advanced. Such models have a built in handicap in that there is limited scope for multiple sales other to than to the more "heavy duty" collectors who want each livery variant. As a result, I will be very surprised if they announce another model of a one-off prototype in the prevailing conditions. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuoitsPlayer Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Slightly left field I know but what about a Class 438/4TC? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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