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Talking About Trains...

Couple of recent additions to the collection. Spotted by a friend of Farcebook.

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As a child I remember going past the old station site where a camping coach still stood. The station site is now a huge industrial estate and Sainsburys now occupies the coal yard site.
 
Big problems with Hornby are poor quality and bad design.

They insist on retooling the big engines (whose tooling wasn't that old) and ignore the small beasties. Oxford Rail just announced a Caley Pug. For over 40 years Hornby had a rather crap rendition of this in their range. Same thing also happened with the L&Y Pug.

Hornby left their (awful) rendition of the Stanier 8F in the range too long so Bachmann grabbed it. Accurascale 'stole' the GWR 57xx off Bachmann. Rapido just announced a new 45xx pinching it (and near certainly the 4575 class) off Bachmann too.

Sadly if Hornby keep making terrible decisions they won't survive the onslaught of new, smaller manufacturers.
 
There's been one big announcement this week. An extinct loco class that's getting close to being out of living memory. GWR 2600 class better known as the Aberdare. Oxford rail have announced it.

GWR 2600 Class - Wikipedia

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Like nearly all pre WW1 GWR loco classes they clanked into oblivion.
 
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