tgk300

Are opinions differing from your own not allowed? Must all opinions agree with yours or else they are worthy of a warning? Is this one of those forums dictated by mods with their own ideology and anything else is totally supressed? Seems that way to me.

Well, who ever has the job within Hornby that gets to decide on what to release has not done a good job and needs sacking. Some of the stuff is alright, most of it is random "Sugar Honey Ice Tea" that quite frankly knowone wants. There is no new GWR Steam Loco's apart from one Star Class, the Class 20 looks like something you would get for free in a magazine from Lidl and then they are doing stupid things like the Stephensons Rocket Train Pack. I mean, where are the Class 68's, GWR IET's, Castle Set HST's, TPE and Caledonian Mk5's, GA 755's and 745's, Class 70's, full detail Class 20's, Manor Class, a decent GWR Panier tank and also a 3 car SWR Class 159. There are two good models in this years January announcments, and those are the GBRF Class 50's and the GBRF 47's, the rest is junk. If this is the standard are the class of model that Hornby are putting out, no wonder the company is basically bankrupt. They are appealing to the wrong people, old LMS and LNER steam is fine if you like that stuff, but don't forget the superior GWR stuff and of course modern image stuff that Hornby's future customer base are growing up with. Eventually Hornby need to realise that the kids of today don't give a toss about LMS coaches and their numbers, a stupid amount of old wagons and Stephensons Rocket. What they want is modern Sprinter units, pacers, aventras, CAF 195's. I am sorry if I come across angry, but I am.

The reason for the sensationalist terms is simply for views/clicks. The phrase “leaked footage” has a far better chance of capturing a readers attention then “official footage”. That would be the reason, it’s just clicks and money.

I would say that it’s quieter then a 15x, but any noise it does make sounds far nicer then a 15x.

They’re a lot quite then a class 15x, although the engines are idling. What I was on about is where they are starting at a station and going to full power straight away almost, that’s when we will be able to see how much noise these units make.

How loud are the engines from the outside of the train when pulling away in comparison to a Class 150 or 158/159? My guess would be considerably louder due to the close proximity of the engines, but having never heard one of these in real life, I can only guess .

Thank you for that. Do you have any links to the afore mentioned DDA regulations before we close this topic for both the near and distant future? I believe that it is safe to say that anyone who wishes to continue this topic beyond this point will need to create an additional thread dedicated to the matter. If one does make a dedicated thread, I would be happy to participate in any and all convocations within it, but until then discussion on this topic should cease.

Do we know what the cause of these occasional failures are? Is it any one thing in particular or a multitude of differant things at differant times?

What do you mean "units are still sitting down"?

I will admit that between myself and a few others we have dragged this thread a bit of course, although I am in no doubt that I was the main culprit. My suggestion would be a sharpish return to the Class 755 and 745 units and also that we leave all the joyful discussions about the intricate details of NR pedestrian bridge design and all the politics behind them for another day, unless of course anyone wishes to make a specific thread

That wasn't this video was it? The guy got very lucky in this case. Note the "Euuueowoo" from the camera man.

£1,500,000 was the price tag apparently. I would of thought that it would of been more seeing as it has to be designed, built and installed; none of which comes cheap these days. The ramps seem very gentle which is good for those actually in a wheelchair, although i do find it quite amusing that they have provided stairs for those who don't want to do the long walk all the way up and then down the ramp, I have certainly not seen that before.

They do have such a policy, I am just putting the idea out there. In reality they can only work if staffed, something that introduces consideralbe costs.

I have just looked it up and seen it, what a beast. I would say that we are entering an era where these bridges will become standard at many stations and ex level crossing such as the one you mentioned at Thurston. Out of interest, was the ability to take horses a requirement, or was that just a joke? Done a bit of research and apparently the bridge was not popular with the locals. Looks like ramp gradient is not all that steep, it would be interesting to know if there is a recomended and a maximum gradient.

Ah ok, I get it now. They don't look great, but I suppose they're needed to avoid stairs.