Hornby's plans for 2009

Christmas Eve I am lead to believe, not New Year's Eve as on previous occassions.

Regards,

IC125.

*cough* Javelin *cough*

Fred X

Like this? *cough*

"Fred X" wrote

I sincerely hope not!

John.

In message , Fred X writes

before Hornby introduce yet another train to run down the CTRL, I would hope they upgrade their existing one so that one can make a full-length train, and the power unit in the train will actually move it at scale speeds.

Yes I think that would be a good start...

Rob.

Want one of those !

But will be upgraded 4F, Compound, unrebuilt Scot with a railroad patriot. Yes please, all of them.

cheers, Simon

In message , simon writes

How about some decent electrically operated semaphore signals, like Hornby-Dublo was selling in 1938?

Now, that would be nice! I could find homes for quite a few of those. Oh, and a couple of class 14's as well, please! Badger.

Why, do you not think that the Heljan one will be good enough?

Fred X

It'll probably be excellent - but at what cost? From the info I've found on other websites it would appear to be going to retail at around £130, that's one heck of a lot of cash for what is, at the end of the day, an 0-6-0 diesel shunter. My gut feeling is that were Hornby to do one, it would be considerably cheaper. Badger.

Are they doing a class 14 as well as the classes 15 and 17 then?

"Jerry" wrote in news:gip7te$976$1 @news.motzarella.org:

Probably, but I don't think the market could sustain two models of a short lived prototype.

Fred X

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Well, considering that buying power of both the Danish Krone and the=20 GBP, 130GBP is not out of line for a state of the art model. The GBP=20 exchanges at about $1.80Can right now, but its buying power has been=20 about $1Can or less for most of the last decade. Atlas, Kato, Proto=20

2000, etc, all offer diesel shunter models in the $100-$200 range, so=20 130 GBP is not out of line IMO. especially one that will have limited=20 appeal.

Cheers.

--=20 Wolf Kirchmeir