Bulleidboy

Duke of Gloucester and DCC Fitted 2-BIL.

Vespa said: Well I took the plunge yesterday and bought 10000 & 10001 in BR green with eggshell blue waistband. I have a black 10001 that runs beautifully smoothly. Then I got an email from L'pool to say that the DOG 71000 is due 16th Dec. I thought I had cancelled it but will let the order run now. From information posted on RM*** today, there are only seven Hornby items that will arrive before Christmas, and DOG 71000 is one of those, in all formats. Everything else is now 2014.

If you click on the persons name you get some information. PP - it say you come from Southampton - but I think we new that anyway - it doesn't give your year of birth, which for LC&DR it does.

Vespa said: A Remington electric shaver, in stock and available for Christmas. And you liked it so much - you bought the company!

LC&DR said: Well he IS a regular contributor to this forum, so he must have his head screwed on the right way. Postman Prat said: You obviously don't know him!!! Not sure my wife would agree with your LC&DR. I can hear her now "Not another train - what are you going to do with them all"?

I bought another Merchant Navy Class yesterday - DCC Ready - to be renamed and numbered. I think I need help!!

walkingthedog said: That's all I'd want my locos to do BB. What do CV 5 and 6 do or what are they for? I think there speed steps?

poliss said: It only offers 0.5A motor output. Doesn't support CV5 or CV6 and is not compatible with DC. WTD - Just backwards and forwards Poliss - It is now DC compatible - see 36-558A

poliss said: Don't use the 6 pin decoder from the B Team. Hi Poliss What's wrong with it? I very recently fitted one into a blue box N Class (weathered) - and everything ran well on the rolling road. Should I be looking at an alternative? I'd rather know now than later.

cooped said: Postman Prat said: Hi Cooped You said "Thanks for that nugget of information PP, was not aware of that!" You're welcome - I'm a mine of (mainly useless) nuggets!!! Hope your grand tour of the uk is going well!! I'm still in the ole US of A, it's Tovideous who's on a Blighty trip right now. I was hoping to get me and the family over the 4th July week, but flights just too expensive so we're over the last week in August. Disappointed I'll be missing the great gathering, but DDE and D of C should still be at York and hopefully we'll catch Sir Nigel on the NYMR (haven't told the wife this plan yet though!). Looking forward to getting back home again, I have a new niece to meet! Hi Dan Please,please, bring some sun with you, after a month in Florida, we're home and have had the heating on. I might stay longer next year.

I can't see people cancelling their orders for the Great Gathering. It's a limited edition, they will have budgeted for it, if they cancel, they might have been "speculators". A true collector will wait,however long it takes. I've no doubt a few "full sets" will appear on ebay at some stage - but at what price? It's not a cheap item in the first place.

I thought it (Co'N), was always due towards the very end of the year?

Mike70 said: I read on another website that most of the Great Gathering A4's won't get into Margate until week commencing 7th October 2013. The only one which will released before that date is the Mallard, which is due week commencing 22nd July. I've been waiting for E-Link to get released. According to one well known stores website, it is due in stock next Monday. But according to Hornby, it won't be released until early July. Wonder what the chances of Cock O' North being released in 2013? That has already gone back to the end of December. My supplier says Cock O' North is now January 2014.

Postman Prat said: Oh, yeah!! Bit like going to a model exhibition, saying that you're not going to buy anything, and then arriving home with the car full!!! bulleidboy said: Holland Afrika Line arrived this morning. No more purchases until end of May. The car is empty at the moment! Next purchase is R4538 BR Unconverted Open Second Coach - due out in May. Then, worryingly, the postman needs to be intercepted, almost on a monthly basis.

Holland Afrika Line arrived this morning. No more purchases until end of May.

Holland-Afrika Line is in the shops - two months early. Mine's in the post. A friend had just collected his.

copper6field said: Morning all. My latest purchase is a Class 205 Hampshire unit which has followed my purchase, about a month ago, of the N.R.M. 2 Bil. A very good purchase on both parts. I got them both recently, but with hindsight, and having watched the Class 205 on YouTube, I should have gone for the version with sound.

Budget Day today, so may have to make some cuts! I think there may have to be some easing of acquisitions. My collections, compared to some is small, about sixty odd loco's. With nine on pre-order, that will take it in excess of seventy - and as yet, still nowhere to run them. Like many, I buy what I like, although BR/SR seems to dominate. I recently acquired a Blue Box 4CEP unit, just because the price was ridiculously low (Liverpool currently £69)- I paid less than that - but did I really need it? I think it's going to be a frustrating year.

R3162X BR 2-BIL - DCC fitted R3177 BR 2-BIL NRM - DCC Ready R2515 Class 73 Pullman Livery "The Royal Alex" - DCC ready Blue Box Class 205 Thumper - 2 car unit - DCC ready Blue Box BR Class C Wainwright - DCC ready Blue Box Class 411 CEP - 4 Car unit - DCC ready I think I've spent to much this month, nothing now due until May.

Graskie says most kids won't remember the film, I think most current parents won't have heard of it. The film was released in 1953 (I was seven) - and I'm now coming up for sixty six, and my children (now in their late thirties) have never heard of it. To many it will just be another starter set.

And the beard!

I don't know if it is a category many of you look at, but there are some incredible layouts for sale on ebay. Many are layouts that have featured (very recently) in the monthly magazines we all subscribe to. Are these sales due to the economy, or does the owner want to move on to something else? One recent layout was a four track, multi-level, built round a loft, it looked fantastic, but it had been built with no thought about ever moving it - so whoever bought it, had to break it down into manageable pieces. If you wanted an instant model railway it's worth a look.

I can't help you with regard the HST light - I would guess Hornby spares, but someone will know the exact answer. With regards the Pullman carriages, you can run them on dc and dcc. On dc the lights will come on as you turn the power up, and go off as you turn the power down. On dcc as the track power is on all the time, the lights will remain on as long as the carriage remains on the track.