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This is a good announcement, I assume these will be ‘solid’ and the bodies won’t lift off to reveal decks?

I have had an extensive Google and search of this site but unable to locate anything specific, Is anyone aware of anybody producing ultra modern warehouses in 00 gauge, or at the very least low relief “ends”? Warehouses like these My searches seem to throw up either brick designs or the 90s style pitched roof variants, nothing from recent times? I’m sure it wouldn’t be too difficult to do myself with various plasticard products but just wondered if anything was available before going ahead.

What currently available wagons could these be ran with?

A vote for any "CAF" multiple unit - 195/331 would be ideal really but there is plenty go at now and a safe bet, so long as they don't fall apart too much more they will be around for a while.. plus I'm sure your in development 22000 driveline would fit nicely as they are roughly give or take a few CMs the same length.. 🫡

Makes you wonder if a 56 is on the cards? As I understand the conversion program below the solebar remains quite similar?

Apologies if I’ve missed it somewhere, is there a date the order book will close?

Spoke to one of their chaps a few weeks back and they will be doing "everything" "eventually" - believe it starts to become available from around July time, the demonstration sample they had looked superb and the magnetic bases with no baseboard penetration was good too.

Hornby have another sale on Click me

Just to echo the MU comments, some Civity family units would be nice please.. 195/196/197/331/397 the DMU variants all have similar chassis and identical bogies (?) and the EMUs do too, I know the 196s are slightly shorter but the 195 and 197 beyond the cab ends are very similar. Probably not as difficult to produce either, especially compared to the FLIRTs with all their bendy bits. I think priced right, these would nicely compliment other models in the pipeline.. especially as they are (hopefully!) going to be around for at least another 30 years, plenty of time to recoup tooling costs..!

Just had my invoice payment request land so they must be quite close!

Looks great! a couple of questions if I may, are these the “400mm wide” Grainge and Hodder boards? Also, are the platforms a custom build or a kit?

Cheapest I've seen these.. https://www.themodelcentre.com/35-430sfx

I’m not too bothered, I wanted more and had missed out but it appears my original pre-order has duplicated, not sure if this happened to anyone else. Just an update to this post, Only one order is showing in my order history but I have 2 order numbers, when clicking through the email on the first “order” I get an error. Assume a glitch in the matrix!

Hi all, I am looking into building a coach rake to use as a 'railtour set', for my planned layout which will be set in 1999-2005ish, From some basic research on Flickr it seems MK1s were the order of the day with all sorts of different liveries with sometimes no uniformity, does anyone have any definitive 'rakes' that were used, with coach types included? Thanks in advance!

How much we betting it still comes in the usual boxes…?

The Genesis coaches have gone to Rails.

Maybe there is other new toolings and they wanted this to be stand alone to not overshadow them..

Hopefully the FEA tools will also have been part of this, a nice counterpart to the 66..

I didn’t get an email but have just found the post in the other thread..

Posted in error.

Obligatory at this stage.

I wouldn't want to insult a computer or AI in such a way ! Ironic really isn't it, you'd thought with a company so driven by its finance updates it would be looking at every bit of sales data to the Nth degree.. Same goes for the TEAs like the Drax wagons, imagine if they did a few of those in different liveries.. budget friendly semi decent models would imo shift very fast,

Shame there was no rerun of the Drax wagons, given how quickly the last batch vanished and the prices they now fetch on the Bay.. who is responsible for their market research?

I had the same thought, you can see the 'indent' on the 2nd mans side.. This photo I found on Flickr shows the real things protrude ever so slightly..

The 69 has already been announced and EP were shown at Warley, which looked very nice!