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[@typhoon2827]

Here's our empty factory from where we moved production to China. Proud.

[@OscarOSullivan]

In retrospect would have been better to stay there in Margate closer to their main customer base the ROI and UK

[@sglenny001]

​@@OscarOSullivanindeed it would of

[@OscarOSullivan]

@@sglenny001 I mean how is making something thousands of kilometres away from the market cheaper unless it is to give the upper pyramid more money.

[@sglenny001]

@@OscarOSullivan because Britannia has failed us

[@OscarOSullivan]

@@sglenny001 Well I have known that for years

[@MysticDragonForce]

6. Hornby's quality over the years has gone way down, while the prices have gone way up.

[@JJTis]

agreed

[@oscarosullivan4513]

So true

[@trainskitsetc]

7. Hornby do not control the global economy 8. Peoples ideas of quality are based on a very limited sample set from a limited number of very loud voices that complain about things that largely speaking have always been the case with all manufacturers 9. Higher quality means even higher prices 10. Lol you think hornby listen to you.

[@lukeslocos6610]

7 the motors we use are of poor reliability and draw high current while having 0 speed and no torque

[@trainskitsetc]

@@lukeslocos6610 8. It would appear the older open frame motors actually draw more. Also gearing has changed over the years, no longer to we just stick a worm onto a gear and have done generally the gearing is reduced to reduce speed because speed is not what everyone wants nor obviously, what hornby wants to make. Times they change.

[@SamM-oh2cx]

I remember getting my first Hornby train set in the late 70’s, it was the intercity 125! I used to spend hours looking at the Hornby catalog, dreaming of all the sets! The sets then came with so many carriages and accessories. Fast forward to today. I bought my grandson a train set, we set it up excitedly together, the joy on both his and my face as the train ran around its little oval on the coffee table! Is that all it does he asks me. Well yes I reply. Can we play PlayStation now he asks. I have great memories of Hornby past, I fear for its future.

[@paulhooper1064]

Fact number 6. His t shirt is inside out.

[@typhoon2827]

Plot twist: it's a Bachman tee.

[@tombo1984]

Fact 9. The front of the t-shirt is a picture of Beaching.

[@Northerner_Transport_Hub]

6. Smokey Joe's tooling is 39 years old and is being sold at the ridiculous price of £54.95.

[@paulroberts9704]

😂

[@Hascienda27]

Remember when it was 20 quid and no one bought it then either

[@PolishThatHandle346]

Only being sold at £54.95 because you're stupid enough to pay it?

[@vik8218]

Branchlines etched chassis is great though.

[@scottlewis775]

Awesome reply OP! 😂

[@BoaFilmsPlc]

1: Yes I did know about the visitor's center and have been there. 2: If only 72 Mallards equal the legth of the prototype then they are not to scale as OO is 1:76 scale not 1:72

[@MistaMatthews]

This is the comment I was looking for 😂

[@0145jjd]

Hornby have released TT which is to scale

[@nickrails]

I dont think you're taking the tension lock couplings into account. The forums would have clocked if the Mallard model didn't match the blueprint dimensions of THE iconic British loco, and by now it would be a meme

[@BoaFilmsPlc]

​@@0145jjd yes, but when this was posted Hornby had not released the TT A4s.

[@user-po7vs1me8n]

touché

[@kimjong-un464]

6. Workers worked at the British Factory till 1995 and then. we sourced our train sets from China at ludicrously high prices and absolute tosh quality…

[@PolishThatHandle346]

Thanks Nigel

[@paulroberts9704]

Plastic meat trays and egg boxes cost pennies but apply some brunwick green and put a British railway sticker on it add a 3 pound motor 5p of wire 50p of metal 20p for a cardboard box and ship it half way round the world == £ 280.00

[@Hascienda27]

Then ship it back cause it’s faulty

[@kanehood3478]

And hornby wonder why profits are slipping, i haven’t bought a brand new model in years literally about 15 years now i just can’t justify buying one, i have to see what i want and wait for about 5 years untill i can get a broken second hand one and repair it, even thats getting mad now

[@LNER985]

@@kanehood3478 Hornby's profits are in the green.

[@fabrizio4682]

Can't wait to buy a 200£ oo scale tank engine

[@trainskitsetc]

You'd need a job to afford that so it will forever be out of reach. 😔

[@grahampickering1560]

It would be nice to see that factory full and working again, also cheaper prices!

[@OscarOSullivan]

The fact they moved production far away from the main customer base in Britain and Ireland is head scratching a mk2 buffet coach from the 1970’s is built better than late 2010’s Mk2E Railroad coaches

[@scottlewis775]

@@OscarOSullivan one of the reasons I started favouring Triang, Wrenn and Dublin locos. My Triang B12 has outlasted the lifespans of two China-made examples that both failed.

[@charlesroberts6483]

Hornby’s prices are far to high for the product, bent running plates and glue marks just aren’t acceptable when you charge north of £200 for a locomotive

[@oscarosullivan4513]

It’s ludicrous

[@trainskitsetc]

That would makes sense as a real issue only if the value of the pound were fixed, the value of the dollar relative to the pound were fixed, the value of every other currency involved were fixed. The fact it costs 200 is really kind moot point. This argument lacks a basic understanding of how currency functions or how the world functions and is just anger at a number that is in quite large part not in the control of hornby or really anyone in specific. We worship at the altar of market forces apparently. Ask you parents and their parents why they thought that was a great idea

[@PolishThatHandle346]

Ever wonder if it's only being charged because you're stupid enough to pay it?

[@charlesroberts6483]

@@PolishThatHandle346 that’s the point, I wouldn’t pay that, which you clearly don’t understand, otherwise you would have seen what I said in the comment…

[@charlesroberts6483]

@@trainskitsetc You are entirely missing the point and this argument lacks the basic task of first reading the comment, I am only suggesting that if you buy a locomotive that costs a substantial amount of money, you would want it to be of a higher quality and not face the problems as mentioned above, or would you rather that be the case?

[@nigelericogden3200]

Hornby… you need to attend to quality control … and stop ripping off your customers. Otherwise your business will not survive. Quality products (not falling apart) and value for money. Do that, and we’ll admire you one again, AND, your business will thrive.

[@PolishThatHandle346]

You could have just voted with your wallet?

[@nigelericogden3200]

@@PolishThatHandle346 I have

[@McMetro]

Wouldn’t it be 76 Hornby mallards next to each other?

[@Poliss95]

76.2 to be precise. :D

[@McMetro]

@@Poliss95 Indeed!

[@nickrails]

Tension lock couplings lads!

[@thegamingveteran112]

I’ve actually been to the Margate one I was on holiday and saw it and got so exited

[@potatosspilled6621]

Fact number 1, no matter how hard I beg neither Hornby or Bachmann will make a new E2 and sell it in the US.

[@jamielawn1568]

I have a Smokey Joe from about 20 years ago. It was absolutely rapped! I had many a crash with it. I’ve now moved to N gauge though due to space restrictions.

[@Mapplewell_Park]

I had Smokey Joe when I was about 7 or 8 in the late 80’s. I was always amazed by how fast it was for a little engine. It wasn’t uncommon for it to fly off the corners as I thrashed it round at full speed in my younger days 😂😂

[@petergraham7731]

Margate was home to Rovex Triang Railways back in 1954. Today's range is essentially Triang in the Hornby name! The Hornby name only survived by virtue of two quirks of fate! FACT!

[@martinwade4924]

Drove down to the visitors centre a few weeks ago and you were closed for stocktaking! We were so disappointed 😢

[@ryanohara476]

Wow the Hornby archive vaults section my era I was 4 and 5 in 1996 my era. I have the 20th Anniversary HST set complete with all its contents and all paperwork card inserts mini A6 catalogue and the sealed original 1996 TrackMat. It is in the 1996 - 1998 blue box design train sets which I can see there among the other amazing Hornby sets from that period Twin Freight 1997 - 1998, Diesel Breakdown 1997 - 1998, Eurostar 1997 - 1998, and InterCity 225 1996 - 1997 among the sets visible. Mike should do whole videos of exploring all of the archived Hornby train sets through the ages.

[@lhtrains8351]

I live there,go there all the time!

[@volodymyrrhapon5666]

Hornby it's in china

[@Thomas_Tank_1_NWR_124]

I find it funny how they don’t mention tri-ang at all

[@Platform5]

Does Smokey Joe have a live steam thingy?

[@richardswiderski4985]

👍1954 that's when I was born.😁

[@thetransportbroz]

I have a question, what's the rarest model you've made?

[@Hascienda27]

A good one

[@kimcason8764]

Methinks it's a Crying shame that there is No One working in that Huge Empty Space today. If there were..! I may not have had so many issues with my Last 'Brand New' Purchase from you Guys. Employ some staff to fill some of that Huge Space. To do at Least Quality Control on your Chinese Product. And your Sales/Profit issues, may improve. You can only Sting people Once or Maybe Twice, before they Look Elsewhere. I was Hornby Everything, but now have Drifted away. Purely because of Quality..! Improve or Die..!! Sorry Guys, but that's how I see and feel it..! Cheers all the Same. Kim in Oz 😎 (or in Reality 😡)

[@kevin-charlesbeaudry4695]

HORNBY should start produce red hat with the acronym “MMGA” - (Make Margates Great Again) and bring back the manufacturing process back home!

[@bussesandtrains1218]

its almost a good enough reason to visit margate

[@modelsandtrains7915]

The visitors centre really isn’t all that…. The got a shed full of real trains but nobody is aloud to see them. There layouts are pretty basic and half the time are not working properly. And the shop is quite expensive compare to online.

[@j0nn032]

WHEN ARE YOU RELEASING THE 85th ANNIVERSARY MALLARD HORNBY???!!!!

[@StewartWaddell]

Where are these made now ?

[@dansmodelrailways7886]

76 mallards equal one full size one, bot 72!

[@carmechanic6676]

Can you make a video game o hornby ?

[@carmechanic6676]

It could be like a dream layout why you could build what ever u wanted in sand box or you could play career mode where you slowly build up your village by either transporting products or picking up and dropping off passengers

[@thepacerman]

well actually it would be 76 because oo gauge is 1/76 scale

[@lochlanmyles7972]

Its 76 Mallards in a row would be the size of the real thing. Hornby has been 1:76 since the late 30s. Your trains run on HO scale track which is 1:87. So Hornby those are some facts you might not know.

[@Its_Alfgaming132]

Hornby should release American engines

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Unlikely to

[@trainskitsetc]

@@oscarosullivan4513 already do, sorta, they own other brands that do. Hornby is not just hornby uk model railways, its a huge multibranded company.

[@1earedwolf]

That's probably the worst idea, simply because there are numerous other brands that have a monopoly on American stock.

[@Its_Alfgaming132]

@@1earedwolf well i been to this shop far away from my city and they said we own the american brand so screw you then

[@tombo1984]

Return manufacturing to the UK in Margate and make everyone happy, well apart from the Chinese and higher ups at Hornby who want to maximise profit margins.

[@MySteaming]

I've been to Rastbourne on several occasions in the last 10 years for 3 night breaks in summer months. The streets are deserted at night apart from groups of asylum seekers roaming about the place begging. Is Margate as bad?

[@Hacksworth_Sidings]

6. Ignore fact 2, OO scale is 1:76, not 1:72, so 76 Mallards would total 70ft, not 72 which would fall just short Come on, you’re meant to be professionals!

[@johnsovcom]

Shame the quality has dropped off over the years

[@stevenday7247]

Here's something else you didn't know......your t shirt is on inside out 😂

[@numptypootis8012]

"A 72 foot Mallard locomotive" ...so theres *more than one* Mallard engine out there?..

[@BrugerJimmy-tw8eu]

2. Yeah like I’m doing that and loosing all my life savings

[@thiagolimawestwood1686]

Why ur prices so high

[@AndoWasHere]

Mention thomas

[@UK-hz6vx]

I’m the 925th liker!

[@tomiboy2093]

If 72 Hornby Mallards make one real one your scaling is wrong... 00 gauge has a scale of 1:76. So theoratically the length of the real one would be devided by 76. So if it should be 76 little Mallards making up a big one your model is to short...

[@wolvertoncentresidings5676]

5 other things everyone should know about hornby 1. We deliberately use older tooling and charge as if it's new tooling. 2. We deliberately rip off the ideas of others and try to present them as our own. 3.We deliberately jump on the band wagon to sell more overpriced tat ( Gay pride rainbow, beetles, coca cola etc) 4. We have no Quality control to speak of and prey the Chinese get it right. 5. We buy up competitiors and bring them down to our low level of quality Just opinion, if you don't agree move on.

[@backbonepictures78]

Here’s the real fact number 6: Hornby should disable comments so that there isn’t a flood of the exact same comments on every video

[@Hascienda27]

It’s so depressing how far this company has fallen

[@jamesmaddison4546]

6. I could buy a standard oval track set with loco for like 25quid with bday money and another set again with Christmas money in the 90s. Now I can't even get what I used to for my own kid unless I want to fork out over 100quid that's absolute junk and looks like an 8yr old designed it. 100 in the 90s could've got me either a scotsman oval set, intercity oval set, or Eurostar set, all priced around 75-85 in argos and index shops. Sorry hornby but you became a huge disappointment. The time I spent I'll always cherish, but it's bs my kid can't on reasonable prices

[@G.E.Trains]

Lets be real, Hornby is on the decline. And I believe will be the first of the big model companies to go bankrupt or shut down. I do have fond memories with Hornby and still use some of their locomotives but the prices are extortioninate

[@Galacticmaster]

Honestly not interested anymore. Used to be as a kid got some of the old sets and they were a nice slice of the UK. But now model in N gauge.

[@MySteaming]

Why are you wearing your top inside out?

[@paulroberts9704]

Can you get a bus as ive been priced off the road by ulez and high horby prices

[@aidenteszke9000]

#6: They produce overpriced garbage

[@1earedwolf]

*Everything* is overpriced these days. Stop calling Hornby the exception to inflation.

[@aidenteszke9000]

@1earedwolf Hornby's price jack ups are way above the inflation rate in "the united kingdom". And Inflation doesn't create poor quality design, manufacturing standards or packaging champion.

[@scottlewis775]

@@aidenteszke9000 Here, here!

[@graham2sexy955]

Will you ever return Hornby to it's real home ? Liverpool