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Brilliant!! Hopefully Q4 release this year 😃

Livery Samples around May time ?

Livery Samples around May hopefully ?

I'm looking at purchasing a rake of DBAG IC Carriages and I notice that these are available from ROCO and also PIKO https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/piko-58543-expert-dbag-1st-class-ic-eurofima-coach-vi.html https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/roco-6200020-dbag-ic2310-coach-set-vi.html Am I correct that EUROFIMA and IC2310 are different types of services, and the carriages EUROFIMA and IC2310 would not be seen in the same train ?

Watching the Q&A stream made me wonder who is behind the modern image models coming from Hornby, because all three of the gents at the table seemed very interested in talking about Locomotion, and a select number of other steam locomotives, and very disinterested in the gorgeous FLIRT and colourful LUMO sat on the table in front of them.

Got an update (finally) from Hornby ref R30161 Good morning, Thank you for your email. The item R30161 is due Feb 2024. It has been removed from the website as we have sold out of our pre-order allocation. No further stock is available. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us. Kind Regards,

One wonders how much real long term thought was put behind canning the Thomas and Friends range. Whether down to greedy execs not wanting to pay for the licences, or something else is up for debate, but it's clearly a viable product range or Bachmann would not have been so quick to snap up the licenses and get production rolling.

All I know is Hornby advised them that the item is not orderable, the R code does not relate to any model.

My local model shop has informed me that R30161 Class 67 TfW Black livery is now a cancelled item.

I did check, but its not listed on the Hornby website, and my local model shop has been told Hornby won't accept any orders for stock of this model?

Anyone know what happened to Hornby R30161 Transport for Wales Class 67 .?

Fingers crossed for the first set of OO gauge 175 EP's around February 2024 time. If one was being hopeful, a release date of "Spring 2025" might be achievable.

One assumes that since EFE Rail are currently flooding the market with Class 143 and 144 Pacers that the Realtrack 142 is being held, to let the market calm down a bit. in 2016 the project was announced, in 2021the first CAD was said to have been completed, in March 2022 revised CAD was said to have been completed, October 2022 we saw the first EPs, As yet we have not seen any finalised EP's, nor any Deco samples. Maybe Charlie could let us know if its deco samples being waited on now?

I'd rather see them tackle something like a 310 / 312 EMU

Really looking forward to the OO gauge 175 👍