I've found that the official Hornby website doesn't even function when trying to input your payment details on an order. As a result , I have to rely on retailers , whether they are online or on the hight street.

On the Hornby website today there's four TT:120 sets; Easterner and Scotsman and Easterner and Scotsman Digital and three bundles; a Scotsman, a Silver King and a Trigo. Only the Trigo is in stock. If you don't want that, the alternative is to buy everything separately so that's not £194.99 for The Easterner set but £164.99 for the locomotive alone. The other alternative is to tell Hornby where to stick it.

Getting Hornby back into WHSmiths, Argos, M&S, supermarkets, etc. (love the Index reference btw) would definitely help keep the brand in the public eye. All my first sets came from those places, that planted the seed and then I started exploring the other model shops/retailers. But then again maybe the world has moved on, kids don't rip out pages from the toy section of the Argos catalogue any more or head to the Model Zone in Smiths when they're on the high street, it's all about ads on social media and product placements with influencers. My jury is still out on TT:120...

I fully agree Craig, we need an affordable way into model railways, even if it is "warmed over ex-Lima diesels".. Nobody in their right mind is gonna give little Johnny a £300 top of the line model, and that's where Hornby, the most well known manufacturer of trains comes in; (think how many people say "Hoover", to mean vacuum cleaner, for example..)

September’68… I was born in the age of steam then? . Good to see Hornby in shops with TT. As for the future? Plenty of space for both OO & TT imo & as for the faces of Hornby, I think it might be a mistake by the Hornby board if they don’t think having a human face for the public to love or hate is important.

The problem with Hornby is too many poor decisions. And qualiry issues coupled with over priced models. I also think that the TT range is way too expensive. I totally agree with everything you said.

I think your 100% right there is not a model shop in every town and city, but there is a Argos or smiths so that's where Hornby should be aiming.

That detailing is the mutts nuts.

After having 4 TTS decoders form Hornby fail, I refused to even consider getting any of the TTX decoders until I knew that Hornby had sorted out their problems. And as I am in Australia, it was not possible for me to get the TT stuff as Hornby do not have a retailer in Australia that they are supplying it to. I do have some of their newer high end models, but it seems like most of them have problems, so it is getting hard to justify spending the money on a model that I might have to send back (costing me even more money) because they are not doing their QC before getting them sent from China

Well done Craig great weathering on the 37.

You are spot on!