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slightly off topic but I always wonder what it had been like if Hornby made more diesels in the 90s and early 2000s. I mean, can you imagine a ringfield 66 or 67 with lights? but of course as always they focused on steam. I still don't see why the ringfield motors stopped the margate diesels from being in the railroad range, I mean the margate 47 was last released in 2013 I thnk?? as one of the northern belle locos

amazing! it's always nice to see people upcyle models. I know people will always says get a Dapol or Heljan one but surprise surprise, doing up the old Hornby ones is almost always cheaper (and probably better, the old Heljan 47 was too wide and the new one looks too thin!)

About the 47, could anyone name exactly what is wrong with it? I know the dimensions are pretty spot on but it still seems.. off.. especially the bufferbeam area, though I suppose it wouldn't take much to rectify it, just sand it back and add new (lima??) buffers

While I have talked about ex margate locos I wouldlove to see the return of the lima 60 and 67 however that one's more of a case of 'because I like it' rather than it actually making sense the 67 was in Hornby's range for quite some time, don't think they changed the motor though. I've got a lima 67 and it's quite loud, and apparently it's lima's quietest model! as for the 60 by the time they accquired lima they were making their super detail 60. oh well! still think the hymek should be brought back, probably in the same category as the 66 because it's more detailed than the 66 but it aint exactly super detail

I'd assume it improved over the years because as far as I know they use the type 7 motor found in the railroad 0-6-0s, which run beautifully and have great pulling power

funnily enough it's the panel on the later 47s I'm talking about! the worst part is the painted on lights still got sad when I missed out on bristol bath road in first gw livery on eBay!

I think what ruins the 37 for me IS the nose end, it works fine for earlier 37s but when Hornby retooled the nose ends, instead of adding the exposed bufferbeam, they just made it completely smooth and painted a black strip where the bufferbeam should be.... As for the 47, it looks alright but it looks too high on its chassis and the bufferbeam valance stick out too far, and the buffers are too chunky, and the headcode panel was just horrendous, I still love them though

yeah I wish they did focus more on diesel and electric, I understand steam is where the money's at but I feel like it could all be so much better, and when they do some good modern stuff they usually end up discontinuing within months, e.g. the yellow submarine eurostar, they stopped selling the coaches by the end of 2020 so now the only way to get them is eBay where they sell for atleast 150 quid. and you can't even get an EWS 66 anymore? and then you've got the 37s and 47s, which they love pumping out in hundreds of era 10 and 11 liveries with nothing for them to pull

Just a shame the later hymeks are so hard to come by! and 58s also seem to go for a lot more than they're worth a lot of the time, I'm planning on getting a 58 and getting one of the 80s ones and getting a brass detailing kit is only just as expensive then getting a china made one

Obviously more detailed models are available, and have been for a while, but I don't think that would have stopped them, I mean just look at the ex-Lima 66

I'm sure someone else has noticed, but since about 2010, many of Hornby's diesel models have just disappeared altogether, never to appear again. This include, but are not limited to: Class 25 Class 29 Class 35 Class 58 I know the class 37 and 47s were replaced with the ex-Lima toolings, but this wasn't the case for the locos I mentioned as Lima never made those locos. I just wondered whether anyone knows why they all dissapeared? I think the hymek/Class 35 is the worst case considering by 2008, when it was last released, it had sprung buffers, separately fitted horns and coupling hooks, and wire handrails.

My next project is bringing a Hornby 58 up to scratch, mainly with some brass parts. I've also still got that 69 project to do and some of the leftover parts from that will be used. As for now, pictures! Excuse them being upside down, rmweb does that for absolutely no reason at all it. I love the top one, it looks the most realistic of the bunchseems⁸

Going to a model show in september so I might try my luck and see if I can get mk2s and 3s secondhand for less than £25 Obviously the older Hornby mk2s are plentiful and it's not the lack of flush glazing that puts me off, it's just that they're abit too early for my time period, which is ironic considering I'll be getting some railroad mk1s for railtours (I've also seen an older Hornby scotsman, about mid 2000s so obviously not super detail but it's got all the lining! Just slap some smoke deflectors on it and you've got a decent representation of her before her overhaul) As for the wagon front EWS enterprise trains have recently captured my interest amd I've got two of the older Hornby mcvities/red arrows/kellogs type van thing on the whiskey grain hopper chassis that I've set aside for repainting into EWS for something similar-ish to an VCA van. I saw one VCA where they painted over the graffiti with grey, might try that out.

If I keep telling myself I can afford 4 more intermodal wagons and a Hornby 47 then it might just come true!

Hornby did make a cotswold rail 47 in the mid 2000s but it was the old tooling, and while it is fundamentally correct in its proportions from what I've heard, it'd still need loads of work, most noticeably with its ride height and the bufferbeams. The Lima 47 isn't the best out there but it's a better starting point

I would also like to get another loco, which probably isn't a good idea as I only have so many wagons and zero coaches! But I also want a new loco so I think I'll get one, just what to get. I think it would be wrong not to get a 66 as some point but at the moment I need something versatile. I was thinking of getting an ex-lima 47 and repainting it in cotswold rail livery and doing the usual detailing, as it's quite a nice livery and it could really be used on anything, just a case of finding the transfers really

I mean OHLE would work for my layout. It's going to be a totally not fictional line somewhere in the midlands and I'd have it connect to Tamworth or Burton-on-Trent. With the former there would be catenary and also a wider selection of traction, virgin, XC, west midlands and a whole host of electric locos but at thr end of the day it all boils down to if I can be bothered. We'll see in a little while

I've looked at the Dapol catenary a while back, but honestly I don't really want wires on the layout, and making an excuse foran electric loco or EMU to be on your layout can provide some interesting modelling!

May have ordered 2 Bachmann container flats ...just need 4 more!

Saw a HST, two voyagers coupled together, 66 and two turbostars

After some detailing and oval buffers I'm loving this thing to bits. My layout won't have catenary but when this things running I can always pretend there's an imaginary third rail!

Thanks! station was obviously the best choice then! don't have to worry about parking as we'll be a parking at my sister's house then walking up to it

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Didn't run today. Probably the only time for quite few months I'll see trains run through Ashby! However my mum's very nicely agreed to take me burton next week so we can do some trainspotting there. If anyone knows soom good spots near the station that would be helpful

Would it be hard to renumber a Hornby GBRf 66? I saw 66755 today (first time I've seen a class 66!) and I'd love a model even if it wouldn't fit in with the mid to late 2000s time period of my layout I also did some more stuff to 67003