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----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Martin" Subject: Re: [demodellers] Latest from Warley
Just got back from a very crowded Warley (with bags full of goodies). >
> Saw the Live Steam Mallard race off around the layout on Hornby's stand, to
> hit something in between the rails near the controller, and make a very loud
> clonk before turning 90 degrees across the tracks with steam spewing out and
> the front wheels broken off - right in front of a huge crowd. Oops. To make
> it worse a spare, that the person demonstrating it took out from under the
> table, seemed to take longer than usual to get to the required heat in the
> boiler, and you could see the "please work... please ground just open up
> below me..." panic and fear on his face. Don't think it'll be quite the
> success that they're maybe hoping.
>
> Bachmann stand was the usual Bachmann thing - crowds several deep (although
> most stands/layouts were) and lots of people trying to be at the front, just
> to find there wasn't much left worth being at the front for... do they get a
> lot of returned ke**les, or had all the modern stuff gone?
>
> N gauge 170 in SWT livery in the Bachmann Farish display cases looked very
> nice - enough to tempt me to also have a bit of N gauge track - maybe I
> could run it around the base of my pc monitor?! ;o) How far off being
> released that is though I dread to think, seeing as Bachmann have had the
> latest 2 car 170's in OO promised for ages, and they're still not
> released... weathered CT 170 was on display (seems to be the same as at the
> Toy Fair earlier this year, with the phone number instead of website address
> on the side) but no sign of the Anglia 170 anywhere. Don't suppose anyone
> on here got to find out the planned release dates? I didn't see a poster up
> this time with their estimated dates.
>
> Heljan's stand opposite seemed to have quite a bit to see (drawings for the
> future locos), although I'm only really interested in the more modern stuff,
> but it's nice to see they've got quite a plan of UK stock for the coming
> years... and alongside Heljan they had a sideshow of hop-along Sutton on the
> REx stand ;)
>
> Seemed to be quite a lack of modern image layouts - something that I seem to
> remember from last year. Other than that, not much else to add from what
> Gareth emailed last night.
>
> Simon