Lillian_R

Oh wow those look nice...deffo want to order one in black when I can ♥

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Hi! I'm looking for a chassis body for a slightly older type of Hornby 08 shunter, doesnt need to have a motor but if it does thats okay. There should be a picture attached to this posting with the type of one I'm looking for. If anybody has one, please get in touch. Been trying to get one on ebay for a while with no success and it would make me a happy lady indeed to finally get my little gronk repaired and working once again

Email that went out today has said that replacement bogie will be shipped out to people who ordered the first batch within the coming weeks cos of the reported issues - I'm guessing this means when the second run is produced - which I ordered - it will just come with that from the start which is fair enough, a manufacturer who listens, hooray! Also listed is the new BR Blue hypothetical version which i *really* want, although it doesnt list a date until they will be available until, so I'm guessing its just going to take as many as they get and make as many as get ordered? But it would be nice to know the time limit on it so I know how long have until I have to place an order, as I have limited free funds so dont want them to sell out before I can order one in like, a month or two, eep :/

Just got this in my emails, as well as the prototype livery, there is also the unused BR Green and BR Blue versions on offer as well These look great, personally I would go for the Blue, what do other people think?

I had thought about that, there were like 2 or 3 along the route including the namesake of the line its just implementing that in somewhere Im not sure where I know I definitely want a shunting yard full of the coal wagons and stuff the line was used for but might connect it to a loop for a passenger service of some kind, not sure if Im being too ambitious, I'm limited on space severely atm, shunting yard and a goods/train shed might be the best I could make at the moment...something to think about ^-^

I dont have anything on pre-order at the moment, I just added some local buses for around my station onto my wishlist to save them for later this morning but thats about it. Only common denominator is I got the email at the same time as OP. It auto-sent into my Hattons folder in my mailbox with the info@hattons address they use for the weekly mailing list newsletter. Bit weird, still very cursed. Not going to click the link just in-case but it sitting in my inbox otherwise is not doing any harm other than being a bit weird. Maybe an employee just sent a bunch out to random mailings for some reason cos they were bored, by mistake or something else.

First blog post, hooray, I think? Not really sure what to put in this yet, more just a ramble about my current 'in-progress' plan so far for a layout, which has only really progressed to a vague idea of what i want the track layout to look like, then realising my tiny flat doesnt have anywhere near enough space after building just a basic loop of track you get in something like the standard Highland Rambler set from Hornby and being a bit frustrated by it combined with high prices of things. So, we took to ebay! And ended up deciding we liked 80s Railfreight-era red stripe/grey stuff and started buying a fleet of those engines + wagons...along with some BR Blue locos just because...and also wanting some military railyard of some description, oh the perks of being indecisive... So then I had to decide *where* I wanted to plant my railway flag. I decided to be either predictable, or boring - depending on how you look at it - and just make the setting of my railway in, near and around my home city of Manchester. I love living here, lets put that energy and pride into model form, surely to make something Im going to like, problem solved! Well, its not a super accurate Manchester mind you...last time I checked we didnt have an army railyard full of tanks and things nearby, based on the things I've been buying and are on my wishlist, at least in recent memory, but that doesnt mean Im not going to make it anyway for fun. I'm not a lady who's super bothered about accuracy or specifics. I know a lot of people in the hobby do enjoy hyper-detailed specific accurate layouts, scenes and models and thats great, more power to them, some of those I've seen have been amazing. Other people make fictional towns but keep true to a time period and that accuracy and detail there, which is still awesome. I cant commit to that. I just like model trains, I like playing with them and driving them around, and the complex networks and systems that railways create as its satisfying. The lack of accuracy and lack of care for detail miiiight frustrate some people. For example, lil diesel shunters I find adorable. Lets take the class 06, mainly worked in Scotland from what I can tell. Dont think you'd ever find one working down here but Im going to shove one in anyway. Hey lets throw it in with a class 35 and a 52 why not, maximum chaos. Sure Im going to have local buses and try to make the buildings and stations look right and have accurate names and things but the fleet is just going to be engines I like. I'll at least try to keep the liveries all the same! Despite that carnage though, there is one exception to this railway of madness I've settled on making. The Woodhead Line. The EM1s and EM2s are hands down my absolute favourite trains. And given several local commutes up and down the route - or whats left of it - for personal reasons before I even knew that my fav bois used to trundle up and down it as well it just seemed like a fateful connection. Am I going to make the full thing? Absolutely not I'd need an entire street I think. But I can settle on a fictional track layout that uses the fleet and their companion rolling stock, or as close as I can get. So - eventually - I think, despite my initial protestations of being an indecisive mess, I will have some specificity at least to anchor myself to reality at least partially and develop that, wallet allowing. (Sob.) There is still going to be that military yard with their tanks running next door to them though.

I got one too at exactly the same time - unless they're testing out some new mailing system maybe and just havent told anyone is my best guess? But otherwise its a bit...ominous and its very cursed.