Hornby Winter Outlet Sale

[Robin Brasher]

Glancing through the items that Hornby are selling at a discount I find it interesting to see if there are any common factors. Out of the Princess Royal class locomotives I find the BR green 'Queen Maud' less attractive than the maroon versions and less interesting than the Turbomotive. The original price seemed rather high and the discounted price seems reasonable.  There seem to be a lot of brake vans, brake coaches and restaurant cars for sale. Some of these are essential or useful but there are only one or two in a train.  In Hornby Dublo days the company used two brake coaches and one second class coach in a set although Margate Hornby favoured two composites and one brake coach or even no brake coaches in the sets with four wheel coaches.  If you are good at predicting sales you can pre-order composite coaches and then wait until the end of the year to buy restaurant cars and brake coaches.

[Steamport Southport]

Just goes to show people just buy random things.

 

The Bulleids were kept in 3 car sets. BTK/CK/BTK.

 

I'm afraid Hornby should be selling them as packets of three and treating them like they would a DMU or EMU as they just end up with loads of carriages that are virtually useless.

 

 

Jason