Mark Dickerson

A non-Insulfrog Code 100 double slip would be nice, it must be said. Or even a new "medium" curved point...

...and yours for £650 for a full set. 🫣 I wonder how many half-sets are being preordered. I "um" and "ah".

The R2398 body does - I was also under the impression that the Stanier 4P shared the same later chassis, but the rear fixing (at least) doesn't fit the R2398 one, so I suppose the very latest Fowlers might also be incompatible.

Or stick with the 1:100 scale mentioned above and market (or make) 16.5mm track locally.

If they're going to revamp the 0-4-0 chassis (as the B4 appears to show), finally changing the 0-6-0 spacing to something more accurate with a basic body might still have some appeal though.

NYE 20:05 - on a later listing. I think an image of the ghost is in one of the trailers, so I'd be surprised if they'd dropped it. Wooo! 👻

Yes, along with other classics like "Daleks can't climb stairs"... 🤨 I think we have to look to scheduling and one of the current Lords Temporal (ironically enough) as much as anything else.

Similar reasoning, Shirley? 🙂 I thought the CR Pug used the same chassis as the GWR Holden 101 - either developed at the same time or before - which despite the Swindon Golden Ticket was not only out of scale, but a unique and short-lived prototype? At least you can stick a scale chassis under the Pug if you choose. As to Accurascale, I'd personally crave something pre-1955, units-aside something like a LMS jackshaft shunter.

I thought they looked like the little Shadow ships from Babylon 5, which (apparently) have been referred to as Spitfires - which was news to me. Though quite why they would be the go-to image for AI rather than more common images of "spitfire", I suppose might be influenced by your preconceptions of AI software designers and users... 😉

I wonder if the new ticket office at Reading West will ever open. More to the point, I wonder if the barriers at Reading West will ever shut... Still, I suppose one could go one station along to Reading Green Park in the meantime and enjoy the future (and the many local attractions - like a footbridge 🙃).

[Don't tell him, Pike!] Quite. After Only Fools and Horses, I can see Hornby getting a bit WW2 - and why do miniatures necessarily have to be military?

One might almost say They're doooomed. 😏 (Note the IP licences. No, not Dredd.)

It appears there's now a limited shuttle service DID-OXF - I think I saw the first train come in as I got off the replacement bus this morning. A little miffed to miss being on it it, but that's far outweighed by seeing the project finished. Well done to all involved. 👍

I don't know - for their next one, I rather like the idea of a 66 666 The Beast that plays Metal, and if you wanted reality there are the various steam Morning Star namers... 🤘

Perhaps Hornby should have included a commentary sound file by Gyles Brandreth? He's on everything else... 🤪