Railroad Evening Star price

[JohnnyGee]

Has jumped from £89.99 last year to £119.99 this year, the same as a Crosti. How can this venerable old model justify a 33 per cent increase in price?

[walkingthedog]

They did say last year that some big price rises were on the cards. The Chinese have discovered they can just about charge what they like. 

[walkingthedog]

£84 at HATTONS. 

[JohnnyGee]

The wierd thing is,both RR Mallard and Flying Scotsman which were the same prices as Eve Star last last year have stayed at the same price.

[Fazy]

Its so the crosti keeps selling.  Otherwise people might just settle for a 9f which is pretty much the same to many people.

[AndyMac1707817969]

Probably them workers in the far east deciding they don't have to work for peanuts anymore to supply people in the west the goods they deserve for as little as they want to pay for them.

[walkingthedog]

I was under the impression it was a retooled model.

[JeremiahBunyan]

The chassis is completely new tooling. And hence the price hike (and delay). It probably has better gearing also It may now look new from the outside, that's because they cannot change that but it is apparently fully new tooling. Still when you look at models like the BR 9F and BR Franco-Crosti 9F they have a lot more detail in them than the AC electrics that are more than they're worth.

 

Seen the latest Class 92? So IMHO, the BR Class 9F and BR Franco-Crosti 9F have more value for money than the Class 92 which is actually inaccurate and old in many ways.

[LCDR]

 The Railroad 9F is a far better looking model than its tender drive predecessor. It performs magnificently, and the finish is excellent. Very little in the way of 'fally off bits' but still with adequate detail moulded on. The valve gear is slightly more 'robust' than a scale model, but not such that it is a distraction, especially with a blackened finish. It repays a little tittivating with picking out certain pipe work, and possibly a little weathering, things we can easily do ourselves.

 

[Fazy]

If what you say is true and the  chassis is a complete new design then maybe we will see some nice new black 9f's coming from Hornby with two different tenders. The one from Evening Star and ones that come from the Crosti.

Now I am fully expecting some clever so an so to say something about the tenders from one or the other did not go with the Standard 9f's 

[walkingthedog]

I've got Evening Star, 2 black 9Fs and 2 Crostis. I need anoth black 9F. I don't like odd numbers. Well apart from PP, now he is an odd number. 😆

[Postman Prat]

If what you say is true and the  chassis is a complete new design then maybe we will see some nice new black 9f's coming from Hornby with two different tenders. The one from Evening Star and ones that come from the Crosti.

Now I am fully expecting some clever so an so to say something about the tenders from one or the other did not go with the Standard 9f's 

 

Hi Fazy

 

You were saying about clever so and so and here I am.

 

The tender fitted to the Crosti 9F was type BR1B and as well as the Crosti s they were attached to nos 92060-6 and 92097-9 which were the Tyne Dock allocation. The ones fitted to Evening Star were type BR1G and they equipped nos 92000-9 and 92203-92250 which were block allocated to the Western Region.

 

Type BR1C (which resembled the Type BR1B, although I don't know if they appered similar from above) was fitted toseveral 'blocks of 9E were allocated to Nos 92015-19, 92045-59, 92077-86, 92100-39 and 92150-64.

 

Towards the end of BR Steam these allocations were subject to change.

 

Having read that, you're now as clever as I am.  😆

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fazy]

Cheers PP I think I still have a little further to go before am quite that clever has that

[walkingthedog]

Don't get taken in fazy he's just got lots of books.

[Postman Prat]

Don't get taken in fazy he's just got lots of books.

You're right, I do have lots of books. The clever bit is knowing which book has the information you want.

😆

[GWR LNER fan 4472]

Has anyone got this loco yet? I'm hoping to buy it to haul my heavy goods trains, is it recomended? I was a bit anoyed when the price shot up £30! I would definitely prefere this type to the Franco-Crosti boiler version of the 9F as it looks more classic and less (ahem) ugly.

[walkingthedog]

Get one, £83-40 HATTONS, a great loco. The previous version is excellent this is even better.  

[GWR LNER fan 4472]

Thanks WTD, I will have a look...

[rustonhornsby]

Hello  one  and  all, i went into Beales in Yeovil,Somerset,today and they have the Evening Star for £90.00p

[Fazy]

Has anyone got this loco yet? I'm hoping to buy it to haul my heavy goods trains, is it recomended? I was a bit anoyed when the price shot up £30! I would definitely prefere this type to the Franco-Crosti boiler version of the 9F as it looks more classic and less (ahem) ugly.

Ugley! Wash your mouth out good sir. 

[JohnnyGee]

The chassis is completely new tooling. And hence the price hike (and delay). It probably has better gearing also It may now look new from the outside, that's because they cannot change that but it is apparently fully new tooling. Still when you look at models like the BR 9F and BR Franco-Crosti 9F they have a lot more detail in them than the AC electrics that are more than they're worth.

 

Seen the latest Class 92? So IMHO, the BR Class 9F and BR Franco-Crosti 9F have more value for money than the Class 92 which is actually inaccurate and old in many