Tim Allen

I've ordered the Hornby ones now, I was going to go with the Peco.

I originally wanted an era 3 only LMS based layout, I don't mind LNER as the station in my village was LNER but the next village was LMS. I don't remember any steam locos as too young for that (honest). Growing up in the 70s and 80s and my first OO layout was the APT and a class 31 I decided to have a dual time line approach. Remove the steam from the layout and its 1980's, remove the HST and diesel locos and its the 1920's. As the era 7 class 08 was sold out I did buy the GBRf version and have now ordered the GBRf class 66 with modern wagons and tankers so its a tri-time line TARDIS in the garden shed sort of setup. TLDR I'm era 3 LMS / LNER, Era 7 & 8 BR and Era 11 GBRf freight only.

I didn't see their stand, I did want to visit it and see what TT stuff they had planned. The only Peco I saw was what vendors were selling.

I mentioned this when I spoke to them Saturday. I asked if the 1980s BR stuff had wider appeal / easer to sell as some folk like to model their area, if I bought some modern locos / coaches it would be EMR, Cross Country and Northern who cover where I live. I was told that they are looking to release modern regional liveries "later on". Seeing as era 7 & 8 HSTs are popular it seems logical an APT should be considered (I would pre-order right now if they did!).

The class 37 is about a year away from being released. That’s plenty of time to decide how many liveries they will release and which ones. I’m guessing May 2025 as Mk2e coaches and 21t wagons have been move back to then. My personal take is a BR Blue and Green with a freight version of some kind.

Since seeing the green Class 50 yesterday I’ve now ordered it as well as the blue. I’ll be doing that much overtime to pay for everything I’ll not have time to sort my baseboard out.

I've got the TTA Tankers already and HAA Hoppers & IFA Container on order. That should make a decent freight rake or two or three...

2 of each for a nice long freight rake 😁

I have no idea on that, I just looked a really nice model. The release version could have it, I don't know.

Around ⅔ of the stand was devoted to TT:120

The class 50 video.

Class 66 in action with new wagons. Edited on my phone in the pub.

It does look good close up.

Not at all. I’ve not had a proper look at them yet. Literally posted raw. 😊

I’ve left and on my way home, sorry. From talking to them yes it’s still a may release. The locos are on the water now. I would have loved to see the duchess running. I did see the class 66 running tho.