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4 minutes ago, Nile said:

As I read it, when using a DC controller you turn it up to max and use the HM7000 to actually drive the loco. It's not clear if the loco can be "driven" by a DC controller alone.

My reading of it is that it cannot be driven by the DC controller alone, but then again one must presume that if you’ve gone to the trouble of getting and fitting the Bluetooth decoder that you wouldn’t particularly want to

9 minutes ago, Jammy2305 said:

 

Hornby themselves, however, have yet to catch up! 

there does appear to be a bit of confusion just now. I definitely want a BR non-valanced  version, so may need to change about once things are finally ironed out :) 

6 minutes ago, Downer said:

Guess I’ll have to wait for the black one. Maybe reinstate my order for the Caprotti, should I live that long.😏

the listing doesn’t actually say that it’s in BR Green - you might get lucky :)

I’d go for a GWR streamliner :)

BR Condition B17/5 pre ordered at Kernow - my only pre order from the announcements this year. Thank god - my wallet has taken to hiding in the cupboard because of my hobbies

46 minutes ago, Downer said:

Will be interesting to see which liveries they settle on. The list which came out prematurely in Hornby Mag had two green versions, East Anglian pre-war LNER and City of London post-war BR. As the latter would be wrong - it remained black - they might want to think about swapping them over, then they could be apple green in LNER and BR guise.  I’d prefer a black one myself, ugly as it was it certainly looked different.

the switch already appears to have been made according to Kernow’s website - East Anglian is now the BR condition loco

Now this could be a massive deal for them - bravo on this one 

The only thing from this morning that I am likely to buy :) City of London for me please :) I don’t like the valances - for me all of the streamlined locos looked a hundred times better without them

On 07/01/2023 at 10:31, Accurascale Fran said:

Hi everyone,

 

When we display the first tooling sample we will likely have news of exclusives around then. So, watch this space…

 

Cheers!

 

Fran

praying for an intercity liveried ‘Hood’ :) 

from the official Hornby instagram 

I’ve got the same - yesterday does do short fifteen minute documentaries and the like, this could be one of those 

Well, got the chance to run it yesterday with some almost prototypical and some not almost prototypical locos.

fantastic model, couldn’t be happier with it

Yup, just got mine back today as well

But I want them nooooow!!! Waaah!!

Seriously, it is great that you are keeping us so well informed about this - I look forward to them arriving :) 

2 minutes ago, Graham108 said:

Thanks for all the info - what loco's are used from Edinburgh Northwards?

when I was on the sleeper to fort William last year, we had a class 66/73 combo from Edinburgh onwards

20 minutes ago, NZRedBaron said:

Don't quote me on this, but I think this might be an earlyish scheme from around 1924 or 1925? One that has LNER lettering and numbering, but might still be in GCR house colours otherwise?

afraid not, that is this model

edit - actually going on the Rails website to look confirms your idea - oops. Sorry about that

Has there been a confirmation of the Jan 10th date for the new range? I appear to have missed it if so

Just got this update from Rapido in their end of year newsletter

On 29/10/2022 at 10:27, DonnyRailMan said:

Late to the party but just took delivery of these two . Nothing broken or falling off luckily. 

 

when first announced I really didn’t like the look of the LNER green, but its growing on me :)

15 minutes ago, RedgateModels said:

I've used Evri for the first time this weekend to send a parcel. 3 x X04 motor refurbs and the customer did not want to risk RM with al the strikes etc. Lets see how they perform.

 

On a related matter I posted a Hornby Britannia on the 29th November, specifically to avoid the strikes that were going on at the end of the previous week. It arrived thankfully on the 13th December, the day the buyer started a claim on eBay for non-delivery.

 

We had a delivery of letters yesterday (Sunday) I hope RM are not paying striking workers overtime to catch up on their missed deliveries ......

sincerely hope that all goes well with the delivery. However as EVRI is essentially a re-branded Hermes service my personal experience is that even a striking Royal Mail delivery service is better in every way. 
 

had no choice but to order something via eBay GSP about two months ago. American postal services got the parcel to the UK in four days. It has been at the EVRI distribution office ever since.

1 minute ago, LNERandBR said:

I'm sure I've seen a layout based on the PQR Mainline but cannot remember it's name or who built it sadly.

 

Think it was at one of the GCR Model Events before Covid. I can't remember exactly which one unfortunately.

I know that Kathy Millat is doing one 

9 hours ago, atom3624 said:

Anyone had theirs returned yet?

Mine was sent back a month ago - no response or sign of anything!!

 

Al.

the timeframe given at time of return was 8-10 weeks and by my reckoning we are about five weeks out from the day of the recall announcement.

That timeframe was also a ‘best estimate’ at the time, there are potential for more delays which couldn’t be foreseen.

1 hour ago, andrewshimmin said:

I couldn't work out if the email was saying that all pre-ordered Scotsman sets will be dispatched to customers soon, or (more likely) that they've got a batch early, which means people who pre-ordered very early will get theirs now, but those who pre-ordered later will have to wait for January.

Since I've asked Father Christmas for mine, I don't know when "he" placed the pre-order... 😬

I read it as saying that they have some stock unexpectedly early and will dispatch to those who ordered earliest first. 

I will be getting both of the ladies in due course in their Ffestiniog guise when they come out (although I will wait for the blue Linda and current day Blanche), but it’s good to see progress towards that :)

For once, my prediction was bang on :)

I believe that there were one or two tweaks to make to livery based upon the painted samples, so painting may not be needed on the final model