CitizenOllie Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 You mean to tell me you market sliding door carriages of which the doors DON`T actually slide? How easy would it have been to have had doors which slid and shut magnetically...You really know how to dissappoint... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 It would have been interesting, but the description simply distinguishes between the older-style swing open doors with the more-modern 'slide open/closed' doors prevalent today. Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 The old slam doors didn’t open so why should the sliding doors open. Braked vans and coaches don’t have operating brakes although it says so in the title. As stated it is a descriptor of the type not a list of working attributes. It is noted Ollie that your posts tend to be toward the product negative. Look on the bright side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubaggieboy Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 There is no air con in mine and the toilets don't flush!! How disappointing Hornby!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremiahBunyan Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Mine are the wrong gauge, the seats are plastic, the window panes are too thick, there's no working suspension and the disc brakes are fake!!! What a disappointment Hornby!!! Some people really do go to any length to find something to complain about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremiahBunyan Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 My steam engines don't steam! My diesels don't run on diesel, my electric locos cannot handle 25kV and my Stephenson's Rocket never went into space.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubaggieboy Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Mine are the wrong gauge, the seats are plastic, the window panes are too thick, there's no working suspension and the disc brakes are fake!!! What a disappointment Hornby!!! Some people really do go to any length to find something to complain about.Well put JB. Bye the way this is Stu from FB. Hope you are ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Your post deleted Ollie as you used the blue button and didn’t add any further comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 TBH at the rate of increasing detail including, it wouldn't surprise me if we return to this thread in 10 years' time and wonder why they weren't able to slide open / closed. Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBfan Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 A total waste of time. Cost and reliabilty problems would be the issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Just think of it ....Train arrives at the station, door slides open, holographic imaged passenger disembarks, others alight .... door closes, off it goes .... Future looks interesting .... was that a flying pig? ... Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rana Temporia Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 There is one of the Hornby books, the one with the loco in the orange mist on the cover that has a description of a coach that they tried to make do just this. In the end it was too complicated so they abandoned the idea. I think the problem was around the doors opening if the train went through the station rather than just when it stopped. I can't get to my books at the moment as I'm decorating or I'd put the page number up. My big big train coaches I had a child had sliding doors controlled by a button on the roof. One option with DCC would be a solenoid or resistance wire to open the doors but as I am firmly DC I wouldn't know where to start and to be honest I wouldn't want my coaches to do that anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMac1707817969 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Had somone buy a Class 105 Power Twin DMU from me and then complained as one of them was a dummy car and had no motor in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBfan Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Had somone buy a Class 105 Power Twin DMU from me and then complained as one of them was a dummy car and had no motor in it.Sounds about right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremiahBunyan Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Mine are the wrong gauge, the seats are plastic, the window panes are too thick, there's no working suspension and the disc brakes are fake!!! What a disappointment Hornby!!! Some people really do go to any length to find something to complain about.Well put JB. Bye the way this is Stu from FB. Hope you are ok. Oh good to see you here! Been a long time. All fine and trying to keep sane whilst locked in a house for 4 months and counting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremiahBunyan Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Had somone buy a Class 105 Power Twin DMU from me and then complained as one of them was a dummy car and had no motor in it.A well known bloke on YouTube bought a Lima Class 156 and wondered why it wasn't upto today's standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Let's be honest it is difficult with modern locos keeping the stuff on them that there is supposed to be. You pick up the loco and have to be careful nothing drops off. So if the carriages had sliding doors they would probably be the first things to fall off. One of my Schools locos derailed in a tunnel and the chimney just fell off ( I gather it is a common issue) so what chance sliding doors would stay intact. I bought a restaurant car off EBay and I was amazed that 3 of the 4 buffers were no longer there. The model was not that old, it is still in the Hornby catalogue. Needless to say the ptoto didn't show that. Fortunately I had some Bachmann oval sprung buffers so I managed to fix it. Probably better than the original, that didn't have sprung buffers. The thing that really annoys me is the things that regularly break on Hornby locos, they don't do as spares or are out of stock, never to be replaced. Most automotive manufacturers find that is an easy way to make money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenOllie Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 It`s called product improvement...After waiting 6 months I`ve been told it`s in the post..Ah All my posts are negative...Well two negs make a positive...Guffaw... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Yes, Tri-ang did try to produce a carriage with opening doors, and yes, the main problem was that the doors would open when the train passed without stopping. These were hinged opening doors, not sliding... I think that the mechanism was based on the Operating Mail Coach system, using track ramps and strikers on the coach. Tri-ang tried hard to avoid electrically operated gizmos... It's mentioned in Pat Hammond's Story of Rovex trilogy of books as well. It may also appear in The First 100 years centenary book....also by Pat Hammond... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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