[72C]

Has anyone published photos of the Hornby coach/s?

 

[dwb]

Hornby have published photos of the Maunsells in the October / November releases PDF.

David

 

[Robert Sands]

Thanks, I saw them in my local model shop. Very, very nice.

 

[Cameron]

Any Idea when the Southern Railway livery coaches are due out

 

[dwb]

The December issue of Hornby Magazine has a review of the BR liveried versions. The review states that the Southern liveried ones are on their way from China. The tail end of a BBC website article on China's toy industry yesterday (November 11th) mentioned a 20 day sea trip to the UK. So I would guess they will hit the shops in the next two to three weeks?

One of the coaches (I can't remember which) has a small detailing error in the moulding that will be corrected on the next batch. Will that make the first batch "collectable" like faulty stamps? (This is not a wind up - honest - I'm curious)

David

 

[PaulRhB]

Yes one of the doors has hinges on the opening side! To be honest it's so small you wouldn't notice when the train is in motion. It would be easy to chop off with a scalpel too.

 

[Cameron]

Well here we are on the 8th December and still NO Southern Maunsell coaches

Any one know when they will be in the shops as I was hoping to have a few for Christmas.

 

[John Webb]

Cameron - I've seen them for sale at a couple of recent exhibitions around my part of the world. The 'box shifters' such as Hattons, Rails of Sheffield etc may be the best to try. Your local shop may have had them in but only in small numbers and sold out before you got there.

Regards,
John

 

[John]

Dear All,

The first of the SR Olive Green liveried Maunsells are now available at The Signal Box. These are the 2 Corridor Composites (1st/3rd).

According to MREMag (on 26 November), we should see the BR brake 'S2796S' (R4305A), SR 1st/3rd composite '5138' (R4299A), SR 3rd '2349' (R4297A), SR brake '4049' (R4300B) and SR 1st '7665' (R4298A) soon, as they have samples of these already.

 

[Cameron]

Thanks for that John & John! So lets hope there is something GREEN under the Christmas tree this year