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The 180 days is to bring PayPal's own dispute process in line with the limit on credit card companies' own chargeback process. Until now, even when PayPal's own time limit had expired, a seller could find a payment put on hold due to the card issuer lodging a chargeback.
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2-BIL offer now shown as out of stock
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Get 'em at that price while you can....!
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As we have also seen with the 'Duke of Gloucester', one of the current supply effects has been that initial supplies of a new item are slow, causing temporary shortages, but eventually the bulk gets delivered. The 2-BIL may well be easily available now, but that includes mainly the re-run examples with alternative numbers. It's an item with a fairly specialised appeal so is not likely to fly off the shelves once the initial demand has been met, but then again it's good to have some Hornby products that it is possible to take ones time about buying and even save up for!
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They're the 'improved' version of the 'bendy' Rovex one mentioned above (also available in green and in warped acetate). A collection of Tri-ang should have one for 'completeness', but there is no shortage of them and a couple of quid seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Indeed. One seller has relisted a boxed one about a dozen times and failed to sell it at £4.99!
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Another case of bidding madness:
Believe it or not there is a market for these, but that market values good loose ones at about £2 a pop, and they're about as un-rare as it's possible to be.......
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Hi Market65,
Thank you for that, I have e-mailed Hornby this morning with some piccies !!!
Best wishes,
Mark
And get the body off quick if you can.....
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How easy are the vinyls to apply/use?
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Hello John
Don't know, but I had guessed air vents for the water tank below.
My model also has two very tiny holes near the water filler. The unopened detail pack contains engine and tender brake gear, two steps and a dummy front coupling. So nothing to block the small holes
As to Hornby';s 'damaged packaging' - my first foray was brand new unused with damaged packaging. The following two purchases (one of which I returned) were very obviously shop rejects and were not perhaps such good value.
Regards
Ray
I think the 'shop rejects' are normally returned Modelzone stock - as such they're not so much rejects as repossessions. I hadn't intended to buy an 01 but came across an LNER one in Hamleys marked down to £75. It even still had the Modelzone label stuck to the underside suggesting it had been in one of their display cabinets. So it's not secondhand or a reject but is ex-display. At that price I wasn't bothered!
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To be fair, if you are asked to quote for buying a quantity of stock, the protocol is normally that the quote will be for the lot as described. There are very few trade buyers that work on the basis of an a la carte list - the price offered is for the lot. SO, taking the example above, you most certainly won't get offered £20 just for a Graham Farish Mk2 coach......
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Hmm, well having acquired a pair of blue split headcode examples which had been tested and put away on receipt, I got them out today to find that one was dead albeit lights working. I ran through a series of diagnostics and got to the chip. I was going to try the model with a blanking plate but just thought I'd remove and re-insert the chip first 'just in case'. That seemed to sort it! I'm not sure how robust the 21 pin connection is but thought I'd post this as I recall one or two others had problems at some point with lights-but-no-movement.
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They weren't of great value then. Hattons, Beatties etc. were flogging off Dublo (especially 3 rail) at low prices.
Presumably Tri-ang dropped their hybrid rehash of the Dublo E3002 because it didn't sell.
Indeed they weren't , but unlike an awful lot of Hornby Dublo where there were significant remaindered stocks, there weren't that many made, and once they were sold out, the collectors price began to rise.
With the Hornby Dublo EMU, the unpowered car sold out much more quickly than the powered one (I think the assumption is that people bought pairs of unpowered cars to make up dummy sets for haulage by a single powered car). As such, powered ones could be had for under a fiver in the late sixties.
Triang's overhead powered locos were not brilliant sellers - the EM2 CKD kit was still shown in the 1974 price list (unillustrated in the catalogue) presumably to shift unsold stocks made several years before - yet within a decade they were sought after rarities. I remember that in the early 80s unboxed/used s/h EM2s were normally priced at £35+ at a time when a new express steam loco was £25 - ouch!
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Yes, first introduced in 1980, one of the models in the main range that is upgraded older tooling. Not a bad model nonetheless!
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It reminds a bit of the 1967 Model Railway Constructor article on converting an HD E3002 into a (fairly crude) class 73.....of more value would be an article on how to magic it back again
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No-one has mentioned the wagon with trees growing out of it that has sat in the bay platform at Maidstone West for well over 20 years....
link may work - apologies if not!
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I suppose that 01 002 (and possibly 01 001?) were unique in having the Lion-on-Wheel emblem and a TOPS number.
Great photos.
Not quite true - 08010 had that honour, whilst Kingmoor's 08105 retained the cycling lion AND black livery with it's TOPS number.
It does seem unlikely that the Breakwater 01s got a repaint - could it be that the very old black paint had simply acquired a greenish tinge?
More remarkable seems to be the fact that D2954 got renumbered as 01001 despite being non-functional....
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Strange 616 seems to be outselling 603 - for anyone who needs encouragement to buy the later, there was a good 7mm version of it on the totally wonderful Hampshire branch line layout 'Hursley', which featured in Railway Modeller in November 1990. Not that anyone would be making a model of a model of course.....!
that might be because it is cheaper (by some margin at MRD....)
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Nothing. If you've bought a DCC sound-fitted loco to run on DC, you've just chucked £100+ in the bin. It won't run on DC. Nada. Nothing. I had to remove the DCC chip from mine to ge it to run on DC on my rolling road. Sound? You'll get motor and gear whine, but that's it.
A bit harsh - you certainly haven't 'chucked it in the bin'. If you can't use or don't want the sound, there are many happy buyers for the chip+speaker on ebay if you take it out and put the blanking plate in. Normally you will recoup enough money to ensure that you've only paid for the equivalent of a non-sound-fitted loco.
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Hi ,
Will this model run ok on 2nd radius curves ?, my layout has only 2nd & 3rd rad curves.
I have the green sound version (32-480DS Class 40 diesel D211 'Mauretania') on pre order since Dec 2010 and it would be a pity after waiting all this time !!!!!!!
Can anyone try it on a 2rd rad curve and let me know ?? - as presumably I can still cancel my order...
Many thanks,
P.
2nd radius is fine, nothing sharper though!
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My local shop in Banbury has a plentiful stock of all Sentinels and they will continue to have a plentiful stock when they are charging £68 a time...£21 more than I paid on Amazon!
Heck, they are all in stock and £55.99 post free from Hornby.com.....
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Hornby Hobbies Ltd, Westwood, Margate, Kent CT9 4JX. That address has featured so much in my life I know it by heart!
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I've actually bought 2 which are at the moment in out of the box condition with factory fitted decoders in place and untweaked. They actually work satisfactorily on a fairly simple layout (my son's, which doubles as the test track...). I may have been lucky but I wanted to flag it here just in case the impression was that they were all duds, on first use at least.
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So those 4 HD Pullmans cost 12/6 each or roughly 1/3rd off 'RRP'. At that time general discounting was rare due to resale price maintenance so it was a bit of a bonanza. Hattons of course purchase large quantities of remaindered Hornby Dublo stock from Lines Bros (Triang) following their purchase of Meccano in 1964 and the subsequent winding up of Dublo production in favour of the Triang system. Even in the mid 80s Hattons had odd bits of new/unsold Dublo in their lists, although by that time some of it was at quite considerable premium prices, such as the WR Restaurant Car.
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Fortunately there seem to be plenty of 1950s type chassis still around, with or without broken bodies, so if that's the raw material you require there is no shortage.....!