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Quite a surprise to see B17/5 City of London in LNER green after being in BR black last year.
Also a new batch of teak and blood & custard coaches, some updated locos by someone called Thompson and a couple of J15s.

Hornby have pinned a price of £349.99 on an A4 Dominion of New Zealand and that's without the extras.

https://uk.hornby.com/

Nothing there at a price that I would ever consider paying...

Bit strange to see an early Hornby B17 back in the Railroad range - looks to still be tender drive? Can't imagine who would buy such. There must be plenty of second-hand ones around.

I think the green East Anglians must have sold well to see City of London in green so soon.

It'll be the tender drive tooling, but with a motor in the engine.

The Blue GER Y14 looks interesting, though not sure if it has the correct chimney?

Overpriced, and yet more re runs and poor quality tat. They have brought out one new Loco !! wow !! .

Great news if you are a Beatles fan !!

Woodcock29 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:24 pm Bit strange to see an early Hornby B17 back in the Railroad range - looks to still be tender drive? Can't imagine who would buy such...

Those that fancy the pretty LNER 4-6-0 at a slightly lower price I suppose; and on its side, it was one of the better tender drive era items in the 'looks like the subject' department.

Slight subject drift, I hadn't realised until yesterday that Hornby have sold Oxford Rail to EKD.thought it was only the Oxford road vehicle element. With two decent LNER group locos and some wagons in the range, and the J26 to come, what else might now appear?

Oxford Rail 2025 announcement is on the 17th January@1900.

Looking at what Hornby announced, it was very underwhelming.

One new Steam locomotive and a GWR saint at that.
B17/6 City of London and a Railroad B17. These are loco drive.
A GER J15, a Y14.
No new Gresley coaches, could not they have done a Composite by now.
Not that I need one any longer.
The Hornby Dublo A4 is very pricey. I could wait till some one reduces them, but that's not likely.

They have really geared this years announcements to the younger buyer and possibly those who claim everything is expensive.
No new LNER announcements from Oxford, but at least there is news regarding the J26 and Cowans Sheldon Crane.
Mark in Oz

No new LNER announcements from Oxford, but at least there is news regarding the J26 and Cowans Sheldon Crane.
Mark in Oz
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See the Banana Van thread.


As for Hornby zip, 95% new liveries on the same now in some case very old models, being churned for yet another year. The J15 is a strange choice , they couldnt sell them in BR and LNER liveries for years. GER version why will they sell ?? .

Even the new GWR Loco is no exactly pretty, awful straight Footplate set up looks very odd!!

mick b wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:10 am ...As for Hornby zip, 95% new liveries on the same now in some case very old models, being churned for yet another year...

I can never keep track of what was announced when, but while in the model shop collecting the O2/2, spotted a very welcome Hornby re-issue: LNER 25T ballast hopper (BR Trout) and bought a couple of this very neat model; this time with a Cowlairs allocation (that will be rusted, filthed and stone dusted to conceal this, as it will be operating no further than a notional 20 miles from KX).

Hatfield Shed wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:14 pm

mick b wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:10 am ...As for Hornby zip, 95% new liveries on the same now in some case very old models, being churned for yet another year...

I can never keep track of what was announced when, but while in the model shop collecting the O2/2, spotted a very welcome Hornby re-issue: LNER 25T ballast hopper (BR Trout) and bought a couple of this very neat model; this time with a Cowlairs allocation (that will be rusted, filthed and stone dusted to conceal this, as it will be operating no further than a notional 20 miles from KX).

Technically a 2024 release. I have a few of the first issue , nice wagons.

Atlantic 3279 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:57 pm Nothing there at a price that I would ever consider paying...

Continental HO modellers: "That's cheap!"