Michael Hodgson

An "improvement" in regulation that makes it less likely that animals will get such protecton. Or a jobs for the boys rule.

Ignorance of the subject is a qualification for the job. If they were competent in their field they would appear to be better qualified that the prime minister who appointed them, and therefore a threat to him.

In East Anglia they just stick NfN above their beds.

Yes there were. They pivoted on a post like old fashioned gates, but looked like a picket fence and were motorised with a wheel that followed an arc in the same way. I think they were confined to the North Eastern Region as was.

I've got a couple of kit-built Palvans, but I'm tempted as these outclass my efforts. I won't be going for the Whisky one on bile green though.

I thought they commented on the shade themselves in the announcemment.

Motorist would still be at fault if the wig wags were working correctly. If they weren't it's presumably either a wrong-side failure or a SPAD. This one must warranr investigation - it will be interesting to see the RAIB report which I assume will be produced in due course.

Unless you want a green one!

£76-45 at Rails. I've already pre-ordered.

I assume the bogie wheelbase is too short to substitute a SPUD to power it.

They're those things you use for support after the landlord calls "Time Gentlemen please" ! 😁 They look to me like hand-built using brass tube and grain-of-wheat bulbs. If they're too bright and smelling of heat, turn down the voltage. If they were LEDs on 12v without a resistor they would have gone bang by now.

That's because Joe Public still doesn't accept the decision by "democratically elected" politicians to do away with hanging. Time was when villains didn't go tooled up to jobs because shooting the rozzers still carried the death penalty even after it had been repealed for bumping off the village subpostmistress you were robbing. I remember one of my schoolteachers who was a JP telling us that it still applied to arson in HM Naval Dockyards! He also told us that hoped that if he ever needed to invoke the Riot Act he hoped the mob would give him long enough if he ever need to read it before they lynched him! “Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King!”

I can't help wondering whether the abandoned Hattons work-in-progress got taken over by somebody who's now been beaten to market. I don't believe there's enough demand to support competition on this!

I'm not complaining given that there's a lot more new stuff in this announcement than I had expected. All the same, isn't it about time somebody produced the short-lived "caboose" guards container that was built because ASLEF didn't want them on the footplate?

Even without lighting, having pickups makes it easier to add a resistor so that the vehicle will operate DCC current-based detectors. Much simpler than mucking about with resistive paint on axles etc.

Yes, I'm delighted to see that. I was disappointed that Hattons cancelled, but it felt unfair to criticise them given they had made a very sound business decision in that they believed it was not going to sell in sufficient numbers, based I think on expressions of interest. So Bachmann/EFE have evidently arrived at a different conclusion, and they deserve to be right about that. Either way they've got at at least one sale - to me.

and a different choice of liveries.

Weren't they simply painted rail blue ? And weathered with lineside muck - whatever was on the track before the days of controlled emission toilets. No wonder they had the blues.

Are they faithful to the prototype ? I think we should be told.😋

Thanks for potsing those pics - it's been a while since I've been to York.

To be fair, they've tried doing that in the past with badges like "silver seal". We just treated it as what it was - marketing bullsh1t, They might do better omitting the Hornby name altogether from their better products, and keeping that for the toys. They've got other brand names they could use if they wanted, such as Oxford, Basset Lowke, RIvarossi. ..or even Hornby Dublo, though they seem to be using that as a sort of retro branding.

if there's no longer a Hattons to buy large quantities of all that stuff Hornby can't sell ... the result will be very big stock figures on Hornby's balance sheet.

Looks like he's b*gg*red them all.

Sounds just like my back trouble. The problem is getting it off my bed.

The best thing since sliced bread is ..... bread made with all sorts of stuff that doesn't belong in a bread recipe? I'm going to carry on putting wholemeal flour into my bread machine.