Trains4U

We’ve placed our orders, and these will be available from Trains4U in January if anyone wants to try before they buy!

Hi Andy firstly, it would be useful if you contacted us directly rather than hoping someone may see your complaint on the public forum. we’ve had a few hundred orders to send out so inevitably we may make a mistake. please write to us with the details of the problem and we will look to rectify it on Tuesday. i have no input in terms of postage charges, so cannot comment on that. in respect to packaging materials, we will reuse and recycle as much material as we can. For orders of specific sizes we will reuse the original boxes, as they were designed specifically for these wagons.

We are starting to dispatch these to Revolution customers from tomorrow. they're also now available on our website for general purchase.

Hi, We are still accepting pre-orders on all variants of the PGA. Our website shows them as being out of stock (As opposed to sold out) and there should be an option to receive a stock notification when they arrive. If you want to secure an order, then all you need do is drop an email or a phone call and we will reserve the wagons for you, with no payment obligation until they arrive in the UK. Unfortunately it is a known, and somewhat frustrating shortcoming of out Point Of Sale system that customers cannot place pre-orders without also requiring full payment (And we don't want to do that!) Thanks Gareth

Our stock arrived today. And nearly everyone else’s! -the distribution appears to be from a Peterborough address (nothing to do with us) but the delivery driver couldn’t find it, he googled “ Accurascale Peterborough” found us and tried to leave several pallets! its all sorted now though! stock now online and in-store!

Trains4U is now an Accurascale stockist. We sIgned up and placed our initial order yesterday.

The MMAs have arrived with us and have been checked and sorted. The GBRF and MRL versions are already on a lorry to Cornwall. we are just awaiting batteries for the tail lamp fitted versions before the wagons go on sale/ start being shipped.

The VEAs have arrived (With us at least) They will be available online later this afternoon (Once we've checked in the stock)

That was Hornby’s Nadir. They introduced several draconian new terms. This was met by a raft of account cancellations and widespread ignoring or refusal to sign the new terms. I sent back mine with many of the terms crossed out (it is an agreement after all) and was never challenged, so I assume it was accepted by accounts.

We have now completely sold out of LaFarge PGAs There are a handful of weathered wagons still available, but thats it for now. The new versions are expected in a few months (Currently in production), though no further LaFarge branded wagons are currently planned.

Your first paragraph is correct hattons would not have breached the terms. The rest is incorrect as it is about being a wholesaler of own brand rolling stock, not the 66 on its own. note Gaugemaster have lots of commissions that they resell to the trade, but they won’t be branded as Gaugemaster, so they get around being classed as a manufacturer. (They also, I believe, operate their wholesale and retail arms as separate businesses)

This is nothing to do with the model type being produced. It’s about being a competing manufacturer. Rails are currently a commissioner, if they were to distribute, they would become a competing trade supplier. if Rails were to start selling their Terriers to the trade, they would also be in breach of Bachman’s terms and could lose supply.

Seriously - did none of you read my post... This is NOTHING to do with Chinese manufacturing. Hatton's only became a competitor when they started wholesaling their own brand models. Therefore breaking the terms of the agreement with Bachmann. The class 66 announcement was several months prior to supply being stopped. There is nothing in the Bachmann terms to suggest supply would be stopped were a retailer to produce and sell their own brand models. Were that retailer to start selling them on to other retailers at trade discount though...

I think you are somewhat wide of the mark. There is nothing to stop anyone from producing models directly with China or any other party. and to do so would not be in breach of Bachmann's terms. The terms are available for anyone to read if you look carefully enough. There is a specific clause that relates to supply of product to a competing manufacturer. I doubt its coincidental that Bachmann supply dried up at around the same time as the Hattons Wholesale service launched.

For the southern area:

The 45s are due in December

Another announced this morning:

Ben has kindly loaned a couple of samples. they are being shipped from China soon. Please feel free to pop in and take a look!

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I'm pretty sure it was primarily a thunderbird loco

DB Models closed down last month - they had an eBay fire sale, selling vast quantities of accessories - but not rolling stock. And they had spent a LOT of money with Bachmann in the last 18 months. Stocked up to take on Rails and Hattons, but the customers never came. (East of England, hence the Anglia 47s) That's another possibility? Olivias are also classified as East of England, and they have dumped excess on Hattons previously. We can all speculate, but there are a lot of old items in the list (Hornby Virgin 225s for example) Which makes me wonder if it is retail stock. We can only speculate. We'll know for sure if/when new releases from the last month start to appear. there will be people at Hattons reading this, bemused at how people are tying themselves in knots trying to figure out what's going on.

I understand they are in the painting stage. its going to be a few months but I’m hoping to have them in time for Warley

Nope, not for that lot. Richard offered to take a small number of excess DB 37s from us, but that is all There are a few things in that list I wish we still had in stock.

We now have fewer than 10 Lafarge hoppers remaining in stock. There aren't any more planned, so get them now while you still can!

With regard to the couplings... The Bachmann BRA had both knuckle couplers on the bufferbeams and NEM pockets on the bogies. Perhaps this same approach should be given to this wagon? My concern with mounting the knuckles on the beam is twofold 1. Will they cope with Trainset curves (R2/R3)? the NEM pockets are clearly close-coupling mechanisms, designed for sharp curves. Will the beam mounted knuckles result in either a) an unrealistically large gap between wagons, or b) a rake that derails on curves? 2. From a tooling and manufacturing process, would it be simpler to keep to a standard underframe design in respect to the couplings? Provision of mounting points in the beam and on NEM pockets gives the user flexibility, and the pockets can always be removed if the user is really offended by them! But if the rakes derail, and there is no alternative means of coupling that prevents derailment, you could face a lot of returned models and complaints.