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I gave up TT airliner modeling when I found I couldn't buy any 1:120 scale air to fly them in.

Sorry it wasn't satisfactory

I guess there are a few people in OO, and in N too, who do not like TT. It has the potential to do things both scales do, but better. And that's going to get some noses out of joint.

This was on TT-board.de some years ago. For commercial TT loco offerings at the time. Drehgestellbaukasten - Table - commercial TT lok wheelbases from tt board de.docx

Agreed. Piko started out cheap, presumably to get market share, but now it's getting up there with Tillig. And the 009 is so darn nice looking, with those Fairlies etc, that it's even tempting me.

The Wiki article on this system says it's the only metre-gauge French network that runs freight. I didn't see any when I was there , and i'm wondering if anyone has ever photographed it.

Add John Dutfield Model Railways in Chelmsford, to stockists of Hornby TT-120. Seeing the 08, steam and coaches in the flesh shows clearly that they are very unlikely to be confused with N scale, as some have speculated. Size differential is substantial. The 'heft' is there. Probably if you went any smaller than 1:120 it wouldn't be, but but just enough is enough. The coaches look very well finished. Quite classy. All up, good looking models, great size, hence a definite appeal. Which longtime TTers have always known. So well done Hornby.

They had a little - Peco - TT track but that's about it.

??? It was in their plan to do it for a while to launch the scale. So as the scale is - as you can see, launched ?? - the purpose is achieved. It did work.

Fair. It was just an SMS joke.

Everywhere except Australia.

'Never say never' doesn't sound hopeful in most contexts, but Hornby's TTake-off is different. They do what's pretty and much loved . . . so far. But it seems they've attracted a totally new market that appears not to be engaged with current scales, and who knows what that market wants? Their spin made TT120 seem something completely different. Not a scale, a totally unique thing. Not just a different ratio with a 120 beside the '1:__' instead of a 148 or a 76. 120 is a magic number that allows compatibility with overseas scales. Somehow this is impossible for any other number to do. I think they will succeed because this new market believes this. You have to take your hats off to Mr Kohler and Co. Sure It's total nonsense, but that new market has responded with its hard-earned.

Yes. Siggis Modellbahn in Germany did it.

Can you ever have enough, really?

Quote me where I said that? You are arguing against your OWN statement, fella.

Part of the aim here, from Hornby's perspective, would be that all the speculation prompted by the confusion they have created is free publicity, when the fact is that not much is happening. Guess it also distracts attention from other things, like the awful NEM wheel standards. One of the advantages of TT modelling had been the opportunity to have a semi-finescale look. HP Products wheels, from 1946 at the start of TT, are code 70.

I'm looking at the Fox Valley TT scale 36" and 33" wheels, and feeling sad about what could have been. Ha!!

Has anyone ever tried to start a new scale - and I know TT has existed in other markets but that's irrelevant - with the manufacturing *all* outsourced?

Brilliant, thank you. It sounds more like an adventure than a hassle.

TT120 running on the compromise 13.5mm gauge of the 3mm Society is virtually 5'3". But Hornby's awful wheel profile would make the effort a bit meaningless.

Does anyone know how or have recent experience of getting to the Bure Valley Rwy on public transport?

Friend experienced more than a month of 40-plus degree days in southern China where he was working last year. Every day, without fail, unrelenting. Many other areas are experiencing similar this year. When it is 38-40 degrees many factories that do not have air-con will not operate, by law, or only run at night. Chinese employees do know their rights, as I know first hand. These are skilled labour, not so easy to replace. Also, peasants report being told land they had re-forested under government directions to 'green the country' - China doubled its area under green cover, an astounding achievement - is now being de-forested. Some emotive stories tell of animals they raise such as ducks, being clubbed to death by officials. The edict come on down from high - the party has a multi-layered command structure with a lot of strange targets - and logic that might have been in situ when it left CCP HQ in Beijing gets lost along the way by the times it arrives in rural areas - is that this land should now be given over to growing soybeans & other animal feeds. This seems like preparatory 'capacity building', as China mainly imports feeds for pigs, chickens or ducks now. Why aren't they happy to import shiploads of feed as they currently do ? One possible answer is expectation of war.

Yup. Cannot fathom what goodwill the company hopes to attract with vociferous salvos of emails . . . when all the relevant information in them is either already wrong , or likely to be wrong soon. Even a chicken would be able to work out that this is not a good way of making oneself popular.

I was only having a whine about their silly emails, and in no wise presaging the collapse of the City of London or the world economy. * * not saying the world economy won't fall today, by the way, but if so it will be for reasons entirely unrelated to me

Well . . . I wouldn't mind knowing whereabouts in the next decade the 66 class will be delivered. Maybe I'll check back on this thread for a heads-up.