Bulleidboy

This is the best I can do.

I thought I had read that 2024 would be a "catch-up" year? So we should not expect too much? Also that Hornby would not announce "new" items until they were about to become physically available. We shall see next week.

@ ColinB - The green HD SNG's have asking prices in the £350/£450 range. There are two or three on ebay.

Slightly off topic, but I have Kaydee track mounted magnets in my fiddle yard, and by using the uncoupling shuffle/creep mode I find it works every time. I agree with DS that being able to uncouple anywhere would be a bonus.

Happy New Year to everyone - I hope 2024 is good to you.

I find the cleaning pad cloth(?) can catch on point rod pins if they are a fraction too long.

Hi John - I have a Sharge track cleaning wagon, and a Class 08 pulls it with no trouble. B

A very nice loco DRC and a good collection of Hornby Catalogues. I don't collect the catalogues as such, but I do have them all from 1993 - I just bought one each year and added it to the pile.

A good deal from the current Hornby Sale - with the use of some of my Reward Points, this coach cost me £3.95 for postage, although it came by courier. The cream(?) is lighter than the other Maunsell coaches I have in this livery.

Sorry John, but your losing me as to why you would want to import a picture. When you open your app, and call up a particular loco, you get the option to create an image of your loco. By hitting "edit" you get the option to either import, take photo and remove image. By tapping "take photo", which assuming you decide to do, you then get the option to "use the photo" and by tapping that option, the photo is then attached to that particular loco. No need for cropping or pixel counts. When you take the picture, you decide whether you want a close-up or something else.

I have just taken pictures of all my HM7000 loco's using the app - the app is on my iPhone - you get the option to "use the picture".

A Happy Christmas from me to everyone - I hope you all have a great day.

My boards (layout) are in a centrally heated, double-glazed small bedroom (10x7). I painted all of my boards with a 50/50 pva/water solution before painting it all brown. No problems after ten years.

This arrived yesterday - lovely loco and superbly packaged - nothing fell off or was loose in the box. I used to see this A4 regularly back in the late 1950's when I was spotting at New Southgate (a few stops out of Kings X.

Brilliant - well done Mikey to you and your team.

I received the 200 "Birthday" points last March - so the offer is genuine.

I have used a variety of PSU's with voltages varying between 3v and 12v. Resistors fitted in each case, and the on/off switch in each case is a dimmer switch (voltage regulator). I have had not trouble (blown LED's) since I installed everything. The shop lighting is left "bright" on the ground floor and then varies (home made diffusers) to dim lights on other floors. All lighting was installed during build.

Hi Paul - Welcome to the forum. There are a number of companies selling boards, in various sizes - if you get hold of a copy of Hornby Magazine, Railway Modeller etc., there are usually a number of ads., from these companies. Before deciding on your board, you might want to consider whether your layout is going to be a permanent fixture, or something you have to move when you have finished "playing". Also, depending on your woodworking skills, you could easily make your own. The top surface could be 9mm/12mm ply, and it should sit on a 3x1 framework. If you look at the Model Railway Solutions site, you can see how the boards are constructed. Their products are not cheap - I used them, and built my boards (they come in kit form) in 2013/14 and they are still very solid. I hope this is of some help, and I and others will be interested to see how you get on. BB

Someone used a Mobius with good results - I actually looked at these the other day.

It would appear that R30263 Hornby Dublo A4 Union of South Africa 60009 has arrived in the warehouse and is awaiting dispatchyum

Try Fox Transfers - they sell/make a variety of headboards.

Lots of people that have either been painted or awaiting paint. A Hornby Schools Class that is about to have an HM7000 sound decoder fitted. Everything should go into the tender, but I have removed the loco body to see whether the speaker will fit in there - not a lot of room. This loco (R2898XS) originally came with sound, but it had been removed.

Yes it was in the 2001 Catalogue as R2165 A/B/C - it came with three running numbers(?) - however R2165C was not listed on the January 2001 Price List? R2165 A and B were both listed in the 2002 and 2003 catalogue. Not the end of the world - Happy Christmas.blush

Sorry, I was posting about the model, not the real thing - How would someone know in 2019 what was in the 2021 catalogue?? He may have gone back and amended his two year old post? Second thoughts 2021 is probably a typo for 2001.

There could be a question mark against "was the model ever made"? New lad on the block posted a full list of Hornby Terriers in 2019 (obviously loco's to that date) and there was special mention of R2165C in that it had only been seen in pictures and the 2001 Catalogue! It would not be the first time Hornby announced a loco but it then never appeared. Interestingly, the post was Posted at 19:08:35 Wed 7 Aug 2019 so how was the reference to the 2001 Catalogue known??