96RAF Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Hornby please make these again for modern 00 track...... and incorporate a DDC decoder and motor. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/French-Hornby-acHO-Pair-of-Points-Remote-operation-with-Switches/252511397291?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D38813%26meid%3D51c46f654b1e4b1ea42ae61251e82b56%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D262566274580 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 To be honest RAF I reckon Hornby should stop making track and leave it to Peco. The points in your link are hideous. The motor is enormous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Hornby as we know them today did NOT make these. These are from the old Meccano factory in France. When Rovex (Triang) took over the old Hornby Dublo range and assumed the Hornby name there was already an independant overseas subsidiary of Meccano called Meccano France who also for a time made Hornby Acho. Meccano France is located in Calais and started manufacturing HO scale model railways from 1960 and continued to do so until 1973 eight years after the British Hornby Dublo had folded. Meccano France continued to manufacture Meccano construction kits, and still do. I believe the Meccano kits seen in today's UK toyshops are of French manufacture. The Hornby Acho were made in a similar manner to Hornby Dublo, beautifully and robustly engineered, but they failed to compete on price, with other manufacturers like Jouef and Lima. So far as I know Rovex never owned the French Meccano operation. Hornby Acho was sold in the UK separately to Hornby Dublo and is still very popular amongst collectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 I guess thats a NO then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I would guess so, as they were never made by 'our' modern Hornby company, nor were they made in the UK or China, so the tooling may no longer exist, and quite frankly the world of model railways has moved on a lot since 1973 with smaller electric motors and finer track standards, I cannot reasonably see anybody other than vintage toy train collectors wanting to use such clumsy bits of track when there are more modern items available. It would be almost like asking for these -/media/tinymce_upload/2cd5f69e52875a52ad278185fb6c3492.JPG 😆My own point of view is Hornby should concentrate on bringing out stuff that meets present day standards and more of it and leave the vintage stuff to the collectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 The suggestion was for a modern updated dcc version in my defence.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Peco electrofrog points as suggested by WTD have metal crossings, and Hornby and Peco points can be motorised much more neatly and operated by DCC.Perhaps what is needed are much neater pre-motorised points which takes into account the miniaturisation possible today, to take some of the hassle out of attaching seperate motors to points, but PLEASE, not those great ugly lumps of plastic that were around in the 1960s. After all this is what a real set of motorised points look like./media/tinymce_upload/ed9275db1dd973d7f5009ff6dcab6b42.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulver Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 They look not dissimilar to the Hornby Dublo 2 rail points (simplec) that I have in my collection. The track is pretty good for the 1960s, and the motors still work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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