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The 700 looks great! What wheels have you used? I am tempted with a 197 but not sure which axles/wheels to use. 

5% of at Rails

https://railsofsheffield.com/blogs/news/mayday-get-5-off-this-bank-holiday-weekend

On 02/05/2022 at 20:34, arran said:

Plus one to ACL or Grimaldi.. loaded 10 of the things in the last week and would be nice to have a few on a model train..

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
 

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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…?

5 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Assuming that you've also taken on the 'Genesis' coach project, how far off would the generic chassis be for RTR replacement of the Ratio Dean 4-wheelers?  I'm angling for a 3-compartment brake 3rd to make up a Glyncorrwg-type miners' workmans; the Hornby and existing Hatton's BTs with balloon ends are not suitable!

 

The Genesis coaches have gone to Rails. 

12 minutes ago, ThaneofFife said:

Well i know what i dont want in tomorrows announcement now......half an hour of it taken up by regurgitation of this Class 30/31 "announcement" padding out the main event.

Just interested in the "additional" announcements. To be honest I dont quite follow why they have done this standalone (yes theyve done it before). It was only 24hrs to the main annoucement so why the early bird approach I really dont know, I mean what difference does 1 day make here?

 

On duplication i endorse the few other comments here.  The decision was romeo done years ago and what others are announcing was unlikely to change anything Bachmann had decided on.....

 

I am ignoring the earlier suggestions about the Class 50 and Class 87.  Dont buy that at all most of all the 87.  If they do an 87 I will be there at the front of the queue as the Hornby one is still not the definitive 87 as nice as it looks

 

The credit card is getting an early night tonight in case tomorrow is a busy day with placing pre orders.

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..

Just now, big jim said:

There is a separate thread but you should have had an email from Hatton this morning 

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

Posted in error. 

Obligatory at this stage. 

8 hours ago, adb968008 said:

A computer, we are led to believe.

whats betting next year we are told its an AI algortihm ?

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,