Wish List Poll Results

[Graham Walters]

The wishlist poll results have been posted, and it's a pretty mixed bag, just show what happens when you get a group of modellers to tell the manufacturers what they want over the next few years, it's full of quite specific and quite niche stuff.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/116458-results-the-wishlist-poll-2016/

[ScottyStitch]

Hi Graham,

That appears to be an address of a file on your computer, maybe?

[Graham Walters]

Hi Graham,

That appears to be an address of a file on your computer, maybe?

Oh heck  I'll change it LOL

[kiwi1941]

The wishlist poll results have been posted, and it's a pretty mixed bag ...

Well now that a lot of people have put in such an effort we just need the manufacturers to listen and act - quickly. RevolutioN have shown it can be done. B

[Karhedron]

To save everyone having to download it individually, here is the overall top 50 items.

Votes Item

102 LSWR/SR N15 King Arthur 4-6-0 (30448-30457, 30736-30755, 30763-30806)
100 Class 117/118 Pressed Steel/BRCW 3-car
100 BR Breakdown Crane with Staff & Tool Vans – Cowans Sheldon 75-ton
93 BR Travelling Post Office Vans – POS, POT, BPOT (Mk1 built or converted, 1959-1977)
92 10000 & 10001 LMS Twins
92 Class 120 Swindon Cross-Country 3-car
92 BR Mk2d Air-conditioned Stock (built 1971-2)
91 LMS Stanier 8F 2-8-0 (48000-48775)
90 Class 158 & 159
88 SR Lord Nelson 4-6-0 (30850-30865)
85 BR Standard Class 4 4-6-0 (75000-75079)
80 Tamper – Plasser & Theurer (07-16)
79 SR Merchant Navy – Rebuilt 4-6-2 (35001-35030)
79 BR Mk2b/c Stock (built 1969/70)
75 LSWR/SR S15 Maunsell 4-6-0 (30823-30847)
75 Class 87
75 Class 205 Hampshire/Berkshire (3 H) (1101-1118, 1123-1133)
74 GWR Collett 43xx 2-6-0 (7322-7341, modified from 9300-9319)
73 Class 105 Cravens 2-car
72 Tamper – Plasser & Theurer (08-16/16-32)
71 GWR King 4-6-0 (6000-6029)
68 Class 128 Gloucester Diesel Parcels Unit (M55987-90, W55991-6)
68 Class 325 Royal Mail Units
67 GWR 90xx Dukedog 4-4-0 (3200-3228, later 9000-9028)
67 BR Mk1 Brake Second Open (BSO, Diags.183 & 184, built 1955-63)
66 Class 423 – 4 VEP
66 Container Flat – BR Freightliner FFA/FGA
65 GWR Churchward 37xx City of Truro 4-4-0 (3440, later 3717)
64 Class n/a Derby Lightweight 2-car (79xxx)
64 Crane – Cowans Sheldon Breakdown with Staff & Tool Vans (75-ton DH telescopic jib)
63 Class 41 Warship A1A-A1A (originally D600-D604)
63 Class 375/376/377/379/387 Electrostar
62 Class 85 (originally E3056-E3095)
62 Pullman Cars – Standard K Class (1923)
61 Class 438/491/492 – 3 TC, 4 TC Trailer Units
61 BR Vanwide (Diag.1/217 of 1962)
60 Class 91
60 Class 123 Swindon Inter-City 3- and 4-car
59 GWR Steam Railmotor (preserved at GWS 2011)
59 BR Standard Class 8 Duke of Gloucester 4-6-2 (71000)
59 Pullman Cars – Observation Cars, Devon Belle (1947)
59 Industrial 0-4-0 – Diesel or Petrol
58 Diesel Bogie Brake Tender
58 Class 401 – 2 BIL
58 Class 416/2 – 2 EPB BR design
57 LSWR S15 Urie 4-6-0 (30496-30515)*
57 Class n/a APT-E
57 Class 370 APT-P
57 BR Mk1 Kitchen Buffet (RKB, Diag.25, built 1960-1)
57 GWR Breakdown Crane with Staff & Tool Vans

[acko22]

Well not really any great surprises there really as ever steam era tends to dominate.

But there are some interesting models slowly creeping up even become maybe even creeping into the niche market! As ever though I don't see to many been more than a wish for a while as the model makers concentrate on getting all the models they have under development out on to the market.

The only thing that has surprised me has been the interest in the APT-P.

[Graham Walters]

Well not really any great surprises there really as ever steam era tends to dominate.

I think this is more to do with the generation that buys the magazines and then can be bothered to vote, more than the general trend in the modelling world.

[Dorsetmike]

Good to see the N15/King Arthur at the top; problem with that is there are 4 versions, the original Urie LSWR ones,  Maunsell "rebuilds" of Drummond 4-6-0s ("Eastleigh Arthurs"), Maunsell built by North British with 8 wheel tenders ("Scotch Arthurs) and later Maunsell builds with 6 wheel tender.

4 tender types, original Urie/Maunsell 8 wheel, Drummond Watercart 8 wheel inside frames on the "Eastleighs", later flush sided Maunsell 8 wheelers and "Ashford" 6 wheelers.

On the locos the cab roof is the most noticeable difference, the LSWR  and Eastleighs had the larger LSWR pattern which was not suitable for use on ex LBSC and SECR lines, and the others had cabs to the composite loading gauge.

[Karhedron]

Well not really any great surprises there really as ever steam era tends to dominate.

To be fair, diesel locos and coaching stock are pretty well covered. Most of the main diesel classes are available RTR with plans in hand to do some of the missing classes. Mk1 - 4 coaching stock is available to varying standards of accuracy.

Electric locos fair less well with the early AC classes are not available but classes 86, 87, 90 and 91 are available RTR together with suitable rolling stock.

The big hole of course is multiple units but these are problematic to model as they are mundane rather than iconic and there are a lot of different classes. Even so, several DMUs and EMUs have made the top 50.

[Thorpe Parva]

Regarding Diesels...

Class 28 with modified windows got 53 votes and the original got 40. I know that some, like me, will have voted for both versions but if the Class 28 had been a single category then I think that it would have easily made the top 50.

Still think it's odd that a revamped 25/3 is not allowed in the Poll. Farish will eventually do it & it will be a big seller.

[Chetcombe]

Well I for one am encouraged! 3 of my choices in the top 12 - Class 117 & 120 DMUs plus rebuilt Merchant Navy's (come on Farish, surely that is an obvious one after releasing the originals!!!)

[NTrain]

I had better get stocks in, as several on the wish list are already available as kits from N-Train/Electra

[DELETED]

I went through the wish list -my first time .  I think I didn't grasp how it worked though because I went through it just to look first but at the end it said thanks for the vote!? I maybe wrongly also thought it might have what I was specifically waiting for -DBSO in blue grey or intercity (which seems to have dropped off the Farish list again) and more Tarmac JGA's as they seem to have dissapeared also. There was something else but I don't remember -I never saw it on the wish list anyway (maybe some coaches to go with the DBSO or something like that).

Maybe my bad -I didn't read the instructions beforehand -thought I could look first   I was a bit surprised how much steam era was on it -but shouldn't really have been thinking about it.

Rich

[GrahamB]

The Dukedog is already available. 

[njee20]

Maybe my bad -I didn't read the instructions beforehand -thought I could look first   I was a bit surprised how much steam era was on it -but shouldn't really have been thinking about it.

Rich

It's only for products that haven't been produced recently, rather than things that are forthcoming or another run is needed. Hence no JGAs or DBSOs.  There is certainly huge amounts of steam stuff on there, but I guess there are more obscure steam locos than there are modern diesels.

I couldn't identify half of the products in the top 50 frankly! I think voter numbers are sufficiently small for it not to mean very much too! OO has far more votes, and I'd have thought would carry more weight.

Very pleased not to see the 92 on there this year, for all the right reasons!