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The Mk2 Escort Ghia would be a candidate for sure, especially in that condition now!

That’s what he was hoping

It is a great shame, as back in the 9-‘s I got into Japanese N gauge when I worked in Japan, I bought tons of the stuff (it was dirt cheap on the exchange rate back then) and the N gauge engines ran sooooo much better than our very best 4mm stuff of the day, to add insult to injury fitting DCC was a simple matter of unclipping the battery/AC boxes under the model and sliding in a decoder, could be done in about a minute or less. Still have it all, Locos, dmu/emus, wagons……all in a box.

My bad….is that in the instructions? I’ll have to check my NDM, I am not buying a full set just the NDM, and I am sure it has a bundle of couplings like that bag with it.

Then you would get drivers ignoring the barrier closing and try to beat it again…….and become impaled or worse decapitated……well it’ll happen only once to them.

So they do in fact give you alternative couplings like a thinking company should……then fail to highlight the fact , you couldn’t make it up

Indeed, not disputing that can happen at all (years ago we had prototype leaf springs delivered from a supplier in India once which when the vehicle was loaded and unloaded for test the back end stayed low, the springs weren’t in fact tempered but just basically wrought iron ) but it does not take the responsibility away from Hornby to react.

Excellent work, it does make you wonder if some of these added (some even normal) features are all too quickly thought of, added and not properly researched and tested in development.

Of course they can, but it appears to be becoming quite a common occurrence, which would indicate either poor quality components or a bad batch of good quality components, in which case Hornby should acknowledge the fact and be issuing a recall and repair/replacement. Only time will tell.

Mrs BB often turns too soon, the satnag always says first “prepare to turn left/right” so what does she do? edit: I should add though I am damn sure she would never turn on a level crossing though, and is actually a quite good driver…….she just doesn’t listen

My old senior photographer had a lot of Austin Sevens as he was in the club (or whatever it is called) and occasionally he would drive to work from Colchester to Dunton (Basildon) in one, they even looked tiny against the then new Fiesta Mk1, when he passed a good few years later I spent about a month going all around the centre trying to find various bits and pieces he had being restored/repaired/re-manufactured even. It took a whole LWBHR Transit to get them to his home!

You not thinking the Trains on Film promotion was a hastily thought of and poorly executed excuse for the Hornby Titfield Thunderbolt surely?

He has taken a while to get to Top Link hasn’t he?

He’s driving a Deltic…..at least get him to smile!

If you have to sit with arms out like that……you need more roughage!

The region locking was a lot to do with different censorship levels, I remember importing discs from the states that had a lot more violence than the U.K. releases, although this was early days back then. Only a very few mainstream DVD manufacturers machines could not be unlocked with entering a code sequence on the remote. As for computer DVD drives these were all unlocked from new but you could only enter the code three times after that it was locked for good, I suppose for ham fisted builders although nowadays the drives would be cheap enough to buy two but back then they were quite an expensive drive. When the internet became fast enough to download films in minutes rather than days or many hours I think they all gave up and just upped the cost to the consumer, and censorship issues……well what happened there then?

Gave away their secrets *ahem* on a forum?

Well it is the Hornby catalogue, so it's promises are always soft but yes the tales are very long

Just happy to see her eh?

MX600…..8 pin of course. I just bought the cheapest/best quality I knew for testing.

Off you go then…..it’s been fine

Etched nameplates are the easy bit for me, where as buffer beam detail is virtually impossible for me to fit, I was hoping it might have been as above, one end fully detailed and the other NEM ready.

I thought you were off to play trains? Go on now….bu99er off…..

What……you mean ones not working?

Andrex…..