CORKY.

Today a Belmond British Pullman set is run behind a Class 67 diesel (Hornby sell a boxed set in OO) and the full size one runs with each first class kitchen car with a first class parlour, just these two types of Pullman cars. I think it has guest locos from time to time, why not a Mallard ?

When I came back from the garden to indoors railway N looked tiny and cost similar to OO, and OO had a toy look that I was familiar with from GScale. So OO gave me more toy for my pound. I think TT:120 Is going to be like N was, smaller and still pricey. I can't imagine an equivalent value product like TTRailroad coming along for decades until the tooling becomes dated, so I will stay with my quaint scale/gauge OO Railroad. Preordered intercity Class 43 Exec, bigger and less expensive than the TT, and hopefully I don't have to wait until 2023. Still joined the TT Club though, it was free

With Hornby's gift for tabloid fake news, I would expect it's going to be a revised expected delivery date for locos with a steam generator, not the sort of good news you would expect at a big weekend show, like The Great Electric Train Show, as Dapol have done with their new Manor Class, but a damp squib that gets lost on the Monday after.

No experience, but, how about wall paper paste ?

As TFOCH wrote, I think the ready made wire soldered to the fishplate is by far and away the best solution, soldering to a nickel silver rail is not easy for an experienced modeller, let alone one without a soldering iron.

@ellocoloco, found one !

@dadad, Railroad R3171 2-8-2 is winging it's freepost way to me from Time Tunnel Models for £75 , is that far enough under £100 for you. With prices going the way they are, unless it has "Railroad" in the name, I don't dare look, they seem rugged good value, and on the far side of a layout, no one is going to know.

I never thought of you as a tease, yet here you go, "moving to large scale". So come on, how large?

One sold on Ebay this week for £95, and one for sale on Pic Lic for £54

Firstly, I am no expert, I tend to run what I think looks good. I have the more recent Belmond Pullman set, and have added extra first class kitchen cars and first class parlour cars. In the course of doing this, I have noticed two distinct types of car, the RAILROAD version which has the roof piping moulded into the roof, and the detailed lighted version, which has fragile separately moulded piping at the ends of the roof . I imagine your ADRIAN to be what became the RAILROAD version, and that Hornby saved costs by making the roofs of all these coaches the same, whereas the full size kitchen car, and the detailed, lighted model kitchen car had TWO small vents close together where only one exists on RAILROAD versions. However, your ADRIAN is the appropriate name of a Pullman kitchen car, albeit with one roof vent not modelled.

Apart from the seemingly endless delays to expected delivery times, I fail to understand Hornby's quaint use of seasons for delivery guesstimates, when the rest of the world use the unambiguous quarterly system. Is winter 2023, the early JAN FEB part of winter 2023, or the later Nov Dec part of winter 2023. I expect Hornby know what they mean....

But there has, take a look at EFE trains. Underground trains came out in the fresh unpolluted air to play as far as Uxbridge, I used to travel on them to school free.

RMS Railway Model Store have a boxed live steam Mallard model train set for sale. unused still in box.....

To only buy G Scale , like the Playmobil that started for the children, and LGB, Aristocraft , USA Trains,

The Belmond Class 67, 3 car Pullman set does not have matching Pullman cars to add to the set. The current full size Belmond train has 10 Pullman cars, and the cars have been in use for nearly a century, giving huge scope for use with other locos. The cars in the set are one kitchen , two parlour, whilst the cars on the full size Belmond are paired one kitchen to one parlour. As new cars are not available , second hand boxed sets of three seem to be the only way to go, but you would end up with a redundant parlour car, for every needed kitchen car...which would all be named IBIS

Not exactly a spelling mistake, but on the box for the Orient Express Pullman cars, the description is "Pullman First Class kitchen car Minerva" (no it's not) and "Pullman First Class parlour car Ibis"(no it's not).... in the real world, and in the box is IBIS kitchen car, and Minerva parlour car.

Similar thread started by TVR on 12th Feb, prompted me to see what other retailers were doing.... bought cheaper from KERNOW

@60088, great choice.

Backs up advice I have had that DCC loco is not happy on DC layout. A DCC plug in chip could be removed, and replaced with a blanking plate, ideal for the non solderers

I had to have one of the latest HST twin packs that was only available with DCC fitted, and TTS. I asked the retailer to program it to run on DC and he refused, saying I would not find it reliable or satisfactory, BUT he would remove the DCC and TTS, refund for the removed items, and fit blanking plates,

Welcome to the Forum. Because of the huge amount of reduction gearing from the motor to the driving wheels, the driving wheels would be difficult to turn, don't force them . Brew Man's 9 volt battery tip is a good starting point, you can find one in a smoke alarm. Don't forget that ebay offer a full refund, even if the seller stated no returns.

if all else fails there is always Amazon, free post £142.50, and many others on internet search well below £200

Just found on my doorstep, an ebay bargain , Hornby LNER teak sleeper coach, first of it's kind for me

Domestic wallpaper paste.

@ wairoalbany Even less expensive at Kernow, buy another tank car !