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Great model, the stay alive is unbelievable and it's a big surprise when the loco is still making sounds for 4 seconds after removing from the track! As well as excellent details, this is a model designed without compromise to having fun.

These are good quality, weighty wagons. There are lots of details you worry will break off with handling but somehow they only bend then can be bent back again. Printed details are also really good. Was great fun to try out my new airbrush on these wagons (the vans are Oxford Diecast) Looking forward to more models from this manufacturer.

as well as the above...lots of positive incremental changes Young Persons' Railcard More disposable income of public Seat reservations and cheap upgrade to 1st class Cheap travel on major routes if booked in advance Quicker and more comfortable than coach travel Toilets cleaned, smoking prohibited, public in general behaving less like animals and treating rolling stock and each other with respect More frequent and reliable services so less fear of getting stranded somewhere and also possibility of living outside of London and commuting into it

A good example of a good manufacturer, as far as rectifying mistakes are concerned.

Don't distract him!

I bought a few tts chips on the last release and about 1 in 10 were fails and went back to the retailer for exchange I suspect they can keep prices low by not testing them. My only gripe is they come without heatshrink and the speaker lead is a little too short

Rails seem to have them in stock

I think I went here https://uk.Hornby.com/community/forum/getting-smooth-running-from-tts-decoders?p=1

Cv29=2 your DCC is off. It sounds like a problem I had with running 37 tts chips. It was solved by adjusting some other CVs Do a Google search tts poor / jerky running

Changing CV29 so DC running is turned off?, solved the sort of problems for me

I was thinking more along the lines of the what might people want them to do next in terms of liveries etc

It has phat Dublo couplings but very fine rivet details around the window and separate wire handrails. My guess Accurscale put it in there as a conversation starter

In case of a surprise invite to Toad Hall of course

Is that a Class 80?

Perhaps your track is laid perfectly but Hornby requiring this perfection is not realistic, not if they want to sell widely

It isn't just about the sale, it is the resale. I am happy to pay out for a top quality diesel or electric model from Bachmann or Accurascale because I am confident I can get a good resale value if I want to sell it later on. It is likely to still be desirable and working and buyers on the second hand market can be confident. Hornby Class 60 and 08 super details for example got me back into the hobby after many years. What has gone wrong since then we can see with the recent APT (a flagship model on the front of the catalogue) which although looking really good and a very desirable model - it has pantographs that cannot be positioned or just falls apart, a power car that cannot cope with gradients or curves very well, if at all, an overheating capacitor which melts the bodywork and a body shell which cannot readily accommodate a DCC chip. I wonder what kind of reception that model would have received if Hornby had completed the design and production with the same finesse they have shown in their advertising - we would be too busy throwing our money at them to bother to check our overdrafts.

not perfect but far exceeds the Lima or Hornby predecessors

Has anyone said a class 88, as that's what I'm after

Amazing Accurscale were scanning Class 50s but this was still kept under the radar for 3 years. Perhaps we should be using Bellingcat to track the whereabouts of the team at all times?

I have my models running for 4 hours and have not seen anything like this, albeit at lower scale speed of 80mph

Yes but the wheels are rotating while your wiring is not.

Were you using DCC? If so, then my GCSE physics suggests induced electrical current occuring in the metal axle, leading to ohmic heating...are the axles metal?

Yes but the power car failed to cope even when it was running solo

Couplings that are electrically conductive... Each UK manufacturer has tried different designs but they all seem to have drawbacks. It needs to be cheap (to buy replacements) reliable easy to remove and connect, for example I have to lay my CEP sideways to connect the couplings otherwise there is a risk of stressing and snapping the cam shaft, then have to lift 4 coaches upright in one go. European models - Roco has a nice solution for example magnetic conductive couplers but a two car EMU cost upward €300.

Thanks I was confused by the photo of a 47 57 double header you can see on this page here https://www.tauntontrains.co.uk/photos/gallery/class47/7 I am sure it is a dead drag for redundancy...