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steventrain		#1 Posted : 29 March 2013 16:12:30(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 21/10/2004(UTC) Posts: 31,606 Location: United Kingdom		See news. http://www.thesun.co.uk/...st-time-in-20-years.html Hornby Train could be bring back to UK from China in the furture.
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danmarklinman		#2 Posted : 30 March 2013 22:17:47(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 18/10/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,378		Originally Posted by: steventrain See news. http://www.thesun.co.uk/...st-time-in-20-years.html Hornby Train could be bring back to UK from China in the furture. i am glad to see this sought of thing back in the UK
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nevw		#3 Posted : 01 April 2013 07:25:00(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/08/2005(UTC) Posts: 11,071 Location: Murrumba Downs QLD		It thas been reliably on various Model Rail forums that Hornby is ceasing all production in China and commencing to manufacture only in the UK, and that all new models will be HO. thay are saying that with Europisation OO scale is now an oddity and has a declining market share in the UK. nn Merged with earlier and similar topic.
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RayF		#4 Posted : 01 April 2013 12:09:27(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 14/03/2005(UTC) Posts: 15,839 Location: Gibraltar, Europe		Hi Nev, where did you read that? Changing UK models to HO has been tried before, in the seventies, by Lima. It was a complete flop and they had to scrap the range completely and start again in OO. As a regular reader of Railway Modeller magazine I am reasonably clear about how UK modellers feel about the scale, and I think it unlikely that they would accept a change of scale to HO. There is a small group of British outline HO modellers in UK, but most would rather stick to OO, or convert their OO locos to EM or P4 gauge to bring the gauge into line with the scale. As to the market share of H0 to 00, you have to search high and low nowadays in UK to find any model shop that sells anything other than Hornby or Bachmann 00, or Graham Farish N products.
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Nigel Packer		#5 Posted : 01 April 2013 16:57:07(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 11/02/2006(UTC) Posts: 683 Location: Cheshire, UK		Originally Posted by: RayF Hi Nev, where did you read that? Changing UK models to HO has been tried before, in the seventies, by Lima. It was a complete flop and they had to scrap the range completely and start again in OO. As a regular reader of Railway Modeller magazine I am reasonably clear about how UK modellers feel about the scale, and I think it unlikely that they would accept a change of scale to HO. There is a small group of British outline HO modellers in UK, but most would rather stick to OO, or convert their OO locos to EM or P4 gauge to bring the gauge into line with the scale. As to the market share of H0 to 00, you have to search high and low nowadays in UK to find any model shop that sells anything other than Hornby or Bachmann 00, or Graham Farish N products. Has the date of Nev's post anything to do with it??? Nigel
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RayF		#6 Posted : 01 April 2013 19:31:38(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 14/03/2005(UTC) Posts: 15,839 Location: Gibraltar, Europe		OK, you got me with an April fool!
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danmarklinman		#7 Posted : 01 April 2013 23:54:04(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 18/10/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,378		Originally Posted by: RayF Hi Nev, where did you read that? Changing UK models to HO has been tried before, in the seventies, by Lima. It was a complete flop and they had to scrap the range completely and start again in OO. As a regular reader of Railway Modeller magazine I am reasonably clear about how UK modellers feel about the scale, and I think it unlikely that they would accept a change of scale to HO. There is a small group of British outline HO modellers in UK, but most would rather stick to OO, or convert their OO locos to EM or P4 gauge to bring the gauge into line with the scale. As to the market share of H0 to 00, you have to search high and low nowadays in UK to find any model shop that sells anything other than Hornby or Bachmann 00, or Graham Farish N products. Hook line and sinker Ray
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H0		#8 Posted : 02 April 2013 07:18:45(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 15,265 Location: DE-NW		Originally Posted by: RayF OK, you got me with an April fool! You're not the only one - someone merged two separate threads. Stephen's post is no hoax IMHO.
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old toot		#9 Posted : 02 April 2013 10:14:06(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 09/07/2009(UTC) Posts: 498 Location: christchurch, canterbury		well sounds like they are following Marklins lead with Z the wage costs, freight cost and quality control and probally they will also get back far better control of their production setup and is getting to be quite a trend in europe. we have found that the z locos coming out of the new marklin factory are far better running that what we were getting out of china including the slow speed running and the detail also is better as they are working through redoing a lot of the locos with new Cad input and design And they may also be finding that a lot of the european makers have upper their quality and detail and that what they have been getting out of china is no longer doing the job and their Uk buyers are expecting more from them so it will be interesting to see what happens old toot
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RayF		#10 Posted : 02 April 2013 13:41:32(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 14/03/2005(UTC) Posts: 15,839 Location: Gibraltar, Europe		I agree with Brian. When Hornby moved production to China the quailty of the locos went up tremendously. They looked much nicer and ran much better than the ones made in Margate. Since then, however, European built models have caught up, with similar quailty of construction and better reliabilty than the Chinese factories produce. During that time it has also become more expensive to make things in China. Today, it makes more sense again to produce in European factories.
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