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Brendan uses them religiously and nobody runs trains slower than him! I use them a lot too and have never had a problem with them.

Those Hornby Saphires are junk Seamus in my opinon. I've tried two and I don't like the running qualities of either. Maybe try the Bachmann 3 function 8pin? Cheap and I've not had a problem with any of them yet.

My sarcasm knows no bounds

Some pics of my latest arrival as requested, a Bowser Alco C630. Thought it would look good running with my Athearn U50. It's my 1st Bowser model so I was interested to see how it stacked up. On the plus side the detail and paint is very good. It's very heavy and is the usual all wheel drive and has LED lights. Sadly it's let down by the woeful handrails, which on one side are seriously distorted. I have seen pictures elsewhere of other Bowser locos suffering from this. Athearn get stick for their handrails but none of mine are anywhere near as bad as these. I will have to look at replacing them. Anyway, the pics!

Indeed, it begs the question why they went to a foreign country to take pictures of another railway's locomotive to pass off as their own! Money to burn!

I think thats why I like it so much.

Hard to tell but it looks to me that even the bogies are grey. Be interesting to see it a bit dirty too.

Looks like I'm in the minority!

Well done getting the video, looks great!

Handmade collectors piece? Me arse! Worth 35-40 squid max.

The Hornby 08 is the best one out there (super detail job mind you, not the ancient old trainset one missing the outside frames!) but the Bachmann one is nearly as good. Bachmann also do the outside door strapping variation of the 08 which I believe the CIE D's had as well?

They must've found a load of stock in their warehouse. Either that or Bachmann has had a purge from their warehouse. Thanks to this I found a UK limited edition for a fairly reasonable price that I missed out on 1st time around. Looking forward to getting it!

Rapido? I'm seriously jealous!

Must find out times and route for the trial run. Would be nice to get a video.

Two threads on the same topic merged.

Did it not run in grey too? Thought it had a few liveries.

Obsolete is often used for items not in current catalogues.

They all can be added to the basket so I would say they're all in stock.

Excellent spot, some hard to get 141s there. I got the email about obsolete items and I didn't bother looking!

That'd be nice, one of my local bus routes. Although the new GT's have ousted the EV's more or less from the route. The GT's are a nicer bus too.

Insane. Best laugh I've had in a long time. Worth 30 notes tops.

Guffaw.

Good call rich, I think you're right. It's a bit small to see on my phone.