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I rather suspect that number 4 will simply appear with a new livery - the tooling required to model it accurately with the reduced cab is probably a bit too much to be expected in a ‘cost vs benefit’ view

Gonna gamble that someone will have one on a stand at Warley, but really really really want ‘Charles’. I’ll probably pick the two ladies up too, but only when they appear in FR guise - I have fond memories of both of them from childhood trips to the FR

Just received my recall details email. Pre-paid postage and a reference slip with an expected turnaround time of 8-10 weeks for the fitting of the new lighting.

As I said before, irritating that it’s necessary, but Rapido is making the best of a bad situation and they are going about fixing it in the right way

31 minutes ago, stewartingram said:

I'm assuming these potential faults are on the latest releases? I have one of the origal releases, and don't have the bos so can't quote the SKU.

 

it would appear that it is only the new ones yes.

I’ll admit that it’s highly annoying to have to send back such a wonderful model (the past five models I have bought have all had to be sent back which has got nothing to do with Rapido, but is rather depressing) but cudos to Rapido for getting the information out there quickly. Can’t have been an easy choice for them

A very brave and very expensive choice (for me at least). I shall be picking up ‘Charles’ I think, I’ll wait for Linda and Blanche to come out in their modern forms. But these look like incredible little engines

Are you talking about ‘oo’? There’s nothing been announced about a new model in this scale, but any model of the newest Hornby tooling should be DCC ready - depending upon the specific mode you are after they can be picked up for reasonable second hand prices 

39 minutes ago, mdvle said:

 

I'm now not so sure about this.

 

Hornby may be innocent, but it may also be deliberate.

 

Heljan announced their 31 4 months ago (June 14th).

 

The Hornby 31 is a vague "phase III" release sometime in the future - say maybe 2H 2023 - so over a year to bring to market which is potentially doable given they already have the research and drawings for their OO Class 31.

 

So long term planned by Hornby or a reaction?  Don't know.

Again, in fairness, the Triang 31 is one of the definitive TT models from the original TT range. It would have naturally been one of the first choices both for the reasons of nostalgia and for the practical reasons of research already being completed, and it’s clear the Heljan didn’t get too far with their own project before discontinuing it.

on this one, my own totally uninformed reading of it is that Hornby wasn’t trying to duplicate anything - it’s just one of those things.

Whoops, double post for some reason 

10 hours ago, BlueLightning said:

 

Not trying to put you off before anyone says anything, but Rapido are releasing it in the later condition, and doing it accurately (at least from what we have seen so far). The tender frames on the Hornby model are incorrect for the 1980s, so it does have some early features

Appreciate that - bit late for me to change my mind anyway, but I’m satisfied with what I see on the Hornby model :)

as alluded to on here, the detail is fine for my personal tastes and whilst I agree the Rapido model looks fantastic, I’ve also been after the L&MR rolling stock too

Just ordered one - I’m only going to have it chugging up and down on a (as yet unbuilt) preserved railway, so I actually  like the later additions being included. 

Had mine on order at Hornby from their range of coaches, but switched over to Hattons as its available right away and about the same price :)

also looks a bit more like the real thing now I think about it

Looking forward to having my 1949 version to pair with my KR Models ‘leader’ which is on the way :)

13 minutes ago, SteamingWales said:

I noted in the blog that it is quoted that... 

 

"Apart from the cab structure, the tender body and certain small details the entirety of the locomotives boiler, chassis and running plate are all formed from diecast."

 

It might just be me, but from looking at the EP images it looks plastic. I know this could change and it is just the first sample but a basic 1st EP should have all the major parts made from the final materials?

it could be that they have included a plastic or 3D printed footplate at EP stage to check clearances and the like. It could also be that there were adjustments that had to be made recently which meant that the metal part wasn’t available. Wouldn’t read too much into it 

36 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Continuing to guess, perhaps to try to present the locomotive in an approximation to its LNER heyday - camoulaging the second tender as part of the train.

 

I remember seeing Flying Scotsman at Garsdale c. 1987-ish, with just the single tender. That was a water stop, with tanker in attendance. The train came in absolutely silently (it is downhill from Aisgill) but once stopped, the engine blew off - absolutely deafening!

yes, the blue/grey tender was an attempt to blend into the carriages. The ‘4472’ was reinstated on the cab side for most of the blue/grey tender run, whereas it was carried on the second tender when the whole procession was in apple green.

Being a fan of the unusual, I quite like the look of the loco during this period 

(not my photo, will credit ownership/remove if posting here is a problem)

One delightful layout that I saw had a button on the front of it with a very large ‘do not push’ sign. When pushed, it fired a water pistol at the offending party. 
 

was so delighted with the concept that I pushed it myself (after asking permission, which caused a wry smile or two behind the scenes)

Very sad. John wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea to be sure, but he was a magnificent modelmaker and almost single handedly saved the Fairbourne railway from being torn up in the early 1980s. That the line survived (albeit in an altered form) is testament to him.

Greetings all,

im looking for an umber liveried 009 coach which was commissioned by AGR models a while back

Please PM if you have one surplus to requirements, I’ll happily pay a sensible price for it 

Superb layout - am hoping to join the mid-sodor fraternity in the not too distant future with a layout based on arlesdale and Ulfstead road. Hope it will be half as good as this

I quite like them - I’d have had their hand off with a black/silver livery (18100 sort of thing) but will think very very carefully about the LMS one too :)

bravo - nice to see oddities and peculiarities getting a look in :) 

Technically Talyllyn and Prince have never been retired and are still in the books of their original railway companies 

Had one of 1501 on pre-order from about ten minutes after they were announced, so progress news is always welcome :)

A bit of a long shot, but did anyone catch the Caledonian Sleeper leaving Fort William on the evening of May 16th? I was on the train and a video memento would be nice :) 

Yeah, that was the last I saw of it. I was just wondering if any other information had come out in the meantime 

Sam really does annoy me now, to the point where I run the proverbial mile whenever his opinion comes up on YouTube. 
 

I don’t know that Hornby did to annoy him, but it just have been good as none of the videos I have seen from him in the past year (for Hornby stuff) have involved him doing anything else but launch into a diatribe about them. He seems to know exactly what they are doing wrong in every aspect of their business without having worked in any of them, which is remarkable, and seems to now actively be looking for the aspects of the models that he can criticise, rather than try to give each model a fair run at things. 
 

these for example: a good portion do the video appears to be based around him grumbling around Hornby’s prices and how terrible it is that these are flat wagons using the coach chassis. This conclusion can be drawn by anyone with a pair of eyes and even a vague understanding of the models. He also sounds genuinely miffed when he has to admit that Hornby have made a sensible design choice on the wagon couplings allowing the wagons to run freely 

id also like to see how much vaunted ‘research’ about these wagons too, because to my knowledge the only evidence for the L&MR flat wagons are lithographs, which are basically useless for scale modelling anyway but seem to show wagons which are essentially as Hornby have made them. 
 

im not gonna pay £85 for them, but stuff like this really does irritate me a great deal

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