Model Rail Bargains & Sales

[RichJF]

We’ll take 10!

Added to my wishlist

Rails also have some VERY good prices on OO gauge freight wagons atm! Just picked up 2 x unpainted gunpowder vans for £15!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

We’ll take 10!

If there was a RR one available at that price, I'd be finding it hard to resist...

That said, thanks for alerting me to their discounted section. Now ordered the EFE West Riding bus, and the Scenecraft relay boxes and phones with stop boards pack.

Also finally got some baseboard kits on order, so I'll be able to start building an actual layout rather than just accumulating locos and units to sit on a shelf!

 

[xotGD]

Cheap bubble cars

Bargain Bubble Cars

Huge savings on these bargain Dapol Class 122 bubble cars. ONLY £79.50

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Gives me an excuse to post this picture of the real thing at Cas Vegas, back in 1997...



I remember spending quite a while festering there, hoping to phot some freight, and this was the only thing that turned up!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Gives me an excuse to post this picture of the real thing at Cas Vegas, back in 1997...

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I remember spending quite a while festering there, hoping to phot some freight, and this was the only thing that turned up!

The footbridge (and the fact that you're stood on platform 2) certainly dates that photo! Anyway, the LoadHaul bubble is a bit more interesting than the Manchester bin liner train in my opinion. Though I suppose in 1997 the binliners would have had something other than a shed on the front at least.

 

[Cowley]

If there was a RR one available at that price, I'd be finding it hard to resist...

I must admit that I’d quite like a Regional Railways liveried one. I’ve got a dummy in blue and grey but a friend of mine has a nice NSE one fitted with a lighting bar:

Also finally got some baseboard kits on order, so I'll be able to start building an actual layout rather than just accumulating locos and units to sit on a shelf!

Excellent. Have you got much in the way track?

 

[reddragon]

Cheap bubble cars

Bargain Bubble Cars

Huge savings on these bargain Dapol Class 122 bubble cars. ONLY £79.50

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Ok if your railway has no curves and you can shuttle it up and down.

For bends you have to remove underframe parts with a knife

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Excellent. Have you got much in the way track?

I've way more track than I'll need for the size of layout I'll be building, as my brother loaned/gifted me a load when I got back into the hobby- at the time he was busy renovating his house so wasn't going to be using it for a while. Most of it is full lengths of Peco flexi, some with concrete sleepers... though as I'm doing a branch line terminus I might stick with set-track for the jointed track effect.

 

[Cowley]

I've way more track than I'll need for the size of layout I'll be building, as my brother loaned/gifted me a load when I got back into the hobby- at the time he was busy renovating his house so wasn't going to be using it for a while. Most of it is full lengths of Peco flexi, some with concrete sleepers... though as I'm doing a branch line terminus I might stick with set-track for the jointed track effect.

Ah that’s good then. We’ve measured out where the rail joints should be and used a Dremel with a fine disc cutter to cut them into flexible track before now. You still get the noise that way.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Ah that’s good then. We’ve measured out where the rail joints should be and used a Dremel with a fine disc cutter to cut them into flexible track before now. You still get the noise that way.

I'm trying not to get too hung up on hyper-realism to be honest. Switching everything over to EM wheelsets and the like is probably beyond me. However cutting the concrete-sleepered track into shorter lengths doesn't sound like a bad idea. The fact that you do that with N-gauge blows my mind a little bit!

 

[Cowley]

I'm trying not to get too hung up on hyper-realism to be honest. Switching everything over to EM wheelsets and the like is probably beyond me. However cutting the concrete-sleepered track into shorter lengths doesn't sound like a bad idea. The fact that you do that with N-gauge blows my mind a little bit!

You don’t have to cut the whole track. Just run the cutting disc across the tops of the rails to simulate a joint if you get what I mean?
Basically so that you get the nice clackety wheel noise.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

You don’t have to cut the whole track. Just run the cutting disc across the tops of the rails to simulate a joint if you get what I mean?
Basically so that you get the nice clackety wheel noise.

Ah, I get you now. Might give that a go once my boards arrive, cheers for the tip!

 

[Iskra]

Kernow and Hattons bargains sections are particularly bountiful at the moment. TMC also have an extra 15% off their sale items.

It’s unusual to see such discounting in the run up to Christmas and so soon after payday. I think the products developed off the back of the Covid modelling boom are just reaching the market as demand contracts due to the current economic climate, resulting in some good deals as retailers look to discounting in order to shift what they can to get the cash in. I imagine that some big price ticket items are now going to be slow to sell, so these could be next in line for discounting. Rails have new Bachmann 47’s and 37’s with modest discounts already, which is a sign of the times.

 

[RichJF]

Kernow and Hattons bargains sections are particularly bountiful at the moment. TMC also have an extra 15% off their sale items.

It’s unusual to see such discounting in the run up to Christmas and so soon after payday. I think the products developed off the back of the Covid modelling boom are just reaching the market as demand contracts due to the current economic climate, resulting in some good deals as retailers look to discounting in order to shift what they can to get the cash in. I imagine that some big price ticket items are now going to be slow to sell, so these could be next in line for discounting. Rails have new Bachmann 47’s and 37’s with modest discounts already, which is a sign of the times.

Kernow have 3 versions of the Ruston 48DS at £69.99! Also Dapol Class 29s at £99.99.

 

[Cowley]

Kernow and Hattons bargains sections are particularly bountiful at the moment. TMC also have an extra 15% off their sale items.

It’s unusual to see such discounting in the run up to Christmas and so soon after payday. I think the products developed off the back of the Covid modelling boom are just reaching the market as demand contracts due to the current economic climate, resulting in some good deals as retailers look to discounting in order to shift what they can to get the cash in. I imagine that some big price ticket items are now going to be slow to sell, so these could be next in line for discounting. Rails have new Bachmann 47’s and 37’s with modest discounts already, which is a sign of the times.

I might have a look over the weekend. There’s nothing I specifically need but I have been considering building up a bit of 1969/1970 era stuff to run on Moors View in the changeover period.

 

[Iskra]

Kernow have 3 versions of the Ruston 48DS at £69.99! Also Dapol Class 29s at £99.99.

I know! All the 29’s are pre-TOPS Blue though, if they were post I might have considered it. Pre-TOPS diesel loco’s seem to be getting discounted a lot, so I’m guessing post-TOPS versions are much more popular models.

I might have a look over the weekend. There’s nothing I specifically need but I have been considering building up a bit of 1969/1970 era stuff to run on Moors View in the changeover period.

A great time to be hinting at your Christmas wish list to Mrs C…

 

[Cowley]

@Iskra - Now there’s a thought…

 

[RichJF]

I know! All the 29’s are pre-TOPS Blue though, if they were post I might have considered it. Pre-TOPS diesel loco’s seem to be getting discounted a lot, so I’m guessing post-TOPS versions are much more popular models.


A great time to be hinting at your Christmas wish list to Mrs C…

I was extremely tempted, then realised I had another Lima class 20 bargain waiting for collection from the RM delivery office!

I'll stick to my £6 digger & £5 wall sections from Hattons for another upcoming cameo layout!

 

[Iskra]

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5 car 80X’s train sets in GWR and LNER £150

 

[reddragon]

Bachmann class 411s are numerously available and offers below £200 are successful at the mo. Just bagged one for £185

 

[thedbdiboy]

Bachmann class 411s are numerously available and offers below £200 are successful at the mo. Just bagged one for £185

Green ones though. Blue/Grey seem to go for higher prices

 

[reddragon]

Green ones though. Blue/Grey seem to go for higher prices

mine was blue / grey for £185

 

[thedbdiboy]

Good find!

 

[RichJF]

I'm selling one of my tiny Inglenook layouts. If you're interested the link is here.

Mods please remove if selling links isn't allowed. Thanks.

 

[Ted633]

Kernow have added a few more items to their bargain section. Includes aforementioned CEP's for £225.

 

[RichJF]

Rails have a 20% ebay coupon until the 17th Nov.

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[Ken H]

Samuel Ledgard Sociey Transport Collectors Fair in Pudsey, Leeds this coming Saturday 19th. May be items of interest. Bus stuff too so if you want a Lodekker in your station forecourt!!

 

[Iskra]

TMC Black Friday Week is Diesel Loco's today, some good deals here for OO and N:

Diesel 40% OFF - BLACK | The Model Centre

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[61653 HTAFC]

On the off-chance anyone's interested, The Model Centre is holding a January sale at the moment:
https://www.themodelcentre.com/jan-sale