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Mentioned in the catalogue as coming along with the BG.

Apart from the 508's which have the passenger door controls that were later blanked off when they were transferred to Merseyside from Southern Region, so they differ from the 507's they served alongside. They were also initially 4 car units...

Being resident in Scotland for most of my life I would beg to differ...

The short answer is they have to offer a repair or replacement. the retailer's option which they should do after consultation with the customer, but ultimately it is the retailer's choice. If that is unsatisfactory, then you can pursue a refund (with return of the item obviously). It's covered by the Consumer Rights Act (2015).

Indeed, a Black 5 is on the cards and will benefit from the work going into this, but it is most definitely the 00 model if you check the tension lock couplings.

Er, no. You'll have a completely dead loco at best because that controls the inputs and outputs of the wires. Best bet for rewiring is to tackle the wires for all this at the motor end - there what is pickup and what is motor feed becomes abundantly clear given the way these chassis are set up.

57/3's..?

Are we overlooking the obvious here in that the reason it is no longer available from the Hornby site is because they have no more to sell from the production batch after the orders from retailers have are taken into account? The retailers will be showing available to pre-order until they have sold their allocation obviously.

And I wasn't there when he didn't do it.

And guess who made the 73/1's..? Which went on to be 73/9's... I believe my coat is over by the door..?

That might not work well with the Superglue unfortunately :(

Nope, more MK2's full stop across all sub marks would be good. Farish haven't produced anything resembling (word used pointedly...) a MK2c in over ten years. The b and the c were the mainstay of the non-aircon MK2 stock. More 2z/a's would be appreciated as well of course.

On BA 747's upstairs was Business Class (at least on the LAX/SFO routes), First Class was downstairs right at the front. Never got to see First Class, but did travel Business on two flights (including once upstairs) - gotta love UKTI grants, only had to pay the taxes for the flights so got to go return to San Francisco for way less than the normal cattle class seat would have cost. The pods were very nice - it made you think how much better First must have been and the mind starts to boggle.

I'm not so sure about the number of variations on a Castle vs a Saint, but having just looked at the wikipedia page (GWR 2900 Class - Wikipedia) I think the Saints would be a wild ride of variations...

Fixed that for you 😁 I'll get my coat...

And the MK2 Pullmans...

There are plenty of steps along the way towards best practices, and every little bit helps, just saying.

Unfortunately I suspect it's a variation on the "process" whereby the DJM tooling became "available". I have total sympathy for Charlie et al here, and the dismay at EFE not following the advice of the late Georgios Panayiotou "if you're going to do it, do it right".

Bachmann actually do non-isolating (not unifrog though) set track points in their UK 00 track range as well as the familiar self isolating ones. I'd hope for a similar approach. Quite a lot of continental set track isn't self isolating in N and H0... If you're doing DCC train sets you're going to need to look at some solution beyond the DCC clips I'd have thought.

It's because they are broadly following the established Tillig geometry, and Tillig's EW2 was the one that was the same length as the standard straight. The shorter EW1 needed a whole bunch adjusting straights to get back to the standard length and would have been nearer to the radius we'd expect in 00. Hornby made an adjustment to their point so it formed a crossover in the manner we're used to in 00 set track and needed no special correcting straights (there are quite a few in the Tillig range...). The correcting curve is a Hornby invention but would also work with the EW2 to get back to standard track spacing. But it's good they've gone with wider radius point work to reduce the trainsetty feel of it all. I suspect if we see curved points from Hornby they'll be different to the Tillig ones which seem to be a bit of a small radius after thought. What might be nice if Hornby could evolve these points down the line to a self-contained unifrog like design (i.e. the live frog is switched by point itself, lose the self isolating behaviour and have yourself a DCC ready point with less plastic in the mix).

I'd suspect that IF AS took on the HST they'd go at it full tilt, so carriages and all. Of course there's then a whole new rabbit hole with that, in you might as well go for broke and do the loco hauled variants (only to the correct scale with no malformed underframe and include the BFO...) and of course the Irish ones as well... Quite a major project, but there's likely a healthy market for these.

I don't know if this service sheet from 2009 helps. hss-313c-caledonian-4-2-2-458_1_.pdf (Hornby.com)

Though islands' prices took quite a surge upwards during Covid with people relocating from down south (locally at peak madness, many places were going at 30-40% over the "offers over" price) so maybe not all that cheap for a decent property...

It all depends who's paying for them I suppose... But the fleet was refurbished back in 2018 so I'm not sure if it will get replaced anytime soon.

It should be noted however that none of those are in the current catalogue or have been for the last few years. I think Bachmann are relying on any previous production that is already out in the wild :(