Slornie

Apologies for bumping this thread, but I thought the below merited it: Murdoch on Ebay this week listed as sold for £2,250. (www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264904270320) And someone else has clearly seen that as there's now another one up with a target starting bid of £2,250.. (www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174493757421) And we thought a few hundred pounds was going too far!! 😮 😮

Having finally got around to ordering the Janus and truck pack via the above offer I can confirm that the other items are now showing on the club page with "Pre-Order Now" underneath the image. Maybe the "Out of Stock" label was the bit that was incorrect and required fixing? I've wanted one of those Janus diesels for a while and having recently received my PLA liveried Peckett from Hornby, I couldn't resist the chance to pick up a matching loco and wagons at such a keen price.

I thought I'd seen something that suggested the new club model was coming quite soon (or at least, much earlier in the year than last time) but I can't find it now. Of course even if that were the case when said un-found reference was published, production and shipping schedules are fickle things!

Received my copy in the post today direct from Key Publishing at the discounted rate per my Hornby Mag subscription. Only ordered it on Wednesday night so that was pretty sharp on their part! 😆

Sorry double post, but out of time to edit. Noticed that R3679 (the PLA Peckett) isn't listed in the 2020 catalogue despite still being a pending release hanging over from previous announcements. Curious, but it's still showing on the website here as Due Summer so hopefully my preorder is still valid too!

Definitely some interesting products in this year's range! I'm sorely tempted by Rocket and possibly the Hush Hush but am going to try and hold off on pre-ordering but we shall see how long that lasts! Also did anyone else spot the boo-boo on p50 of the catalogue which mentions a TPE Nova 1 in the 2020 range - which is then nowhere to be found! Am I right in thinking it's a slightly different subclass of the 800 than Hornby have produced thus far? Presumably the model has been delayed to 2021 or held back for a mid-year addition (if H do that again).

Given LD has been mentioned several times this year in Hornby's Railmaster advertorials at the front of Hornby Magazine - one would hope that it's well on the way to actually materialising! EDIT: Do I have to make a guess now? 22 June 2020. Somewhere near the middle of what is apparently a significant birthday year for Hornby.

The two nameplates reflect how the locomotive appeared on Hornby's stand at the Warley show in 2017. There's a picture in the end of year Engine Shed blog: /media/wysiwyg/12-01-2018/Warley_on_stand-web.jpg

No email from Hornby yet, but they've charged my payment card and I can see in my account here the order has moved from "Pre Order" to "Processing". 😀

Aren't Bachmann's Thomas products closer to OO in scale than HO anyway? Hopefully the updated license agreement also means Bachmann can sell their OO9 products over here as well because I'd quite like to get to get a few of those!

If the forthcoming v1.6 is a typo it's one that has already been propagated across multiple sources (that I've seen): 2019 CatalogueRMWeb announcements threadHornby MagazineRailway Modeller New features stated for 1.6 (beyond Railmaster connectivity) include CV programming (0-255) and complete track isolation in the event of a short. One thing I do wonder is how this will affect current unsold and future Select stock. After 1.6 is released will there be a new production run of Select's that have the new upgrade pre-installed? And wIll that cause confusion for prospective customers if some controllers come with the hardware fix and others don't? Would retailers (if they wished) be able to send their older unsold stock back to Hornby to have the upgrade installed before re-sale?

I'm actually wondering if 'Lord Phil' not being DCC Ready is another factory error. It was definitely listed as DCC Ready in the 2017 catalogue, and was also listed as such on the Hornby website (until it wasn't). As far as I'm aware the J94 tooling hasn't been available DCC Ready before (I know last year's model wasn't), so if 'Phil' had been, as advertised, it would have been the first issue available as such.

27 & 1/2 Even including the half hasn't helped much! 😛

Did you see RailMaster Support's replies in your Turntable Configuration thread from December? According to that the pause at each road is mechanical in nature but doesn't detract from accurate alignment because RailMaster takes the acceleration and deceleration into account.

Treated myself to a J50 and J94 at Warley last week; slightly on impulse but as both have been on my "want list" for a while it's all good.