A British domestic train from Kato? 800 series available from May 2021

[Chris Morris]

Dawlish Warren has short platforms (nowadays) and IETs stop there. When you get past the end of the platform a number of signs have been planted saying "Do not alight here".

[Trainfish]

Dawlish Warren has short platforms (nowadays) and IETs stop there. When you get past the end of the platform a number of signs have been planted saying "Do not alight here".

Oh, I thought those signs were to dissuade people from smoking.

I appreciate what you will say regarding long trains and stopping on point work, but I really don't want to go down that route with my layout, as I will no doubt throw a point while the train is on it and cause a derailment and we don't like derailments do we?

[Skyline2uk]

I appreciate what you will say regarding long trains and stopping on point work, but I really don't want to go down that route with my layout, as I will no doubt throw a point while the train is on it and cause a derailment and we don't like derailments do we?

Having witnessed the consequences of a set of points moving "underneath" an ARC train when it was passing an "ICE" on a certain @Mirrlees Kato setup, I would agree with your logic John 

Moving back on topic; as Mr Kato alluded to me at TINGS, it's great to see him continuing with U.K. outline. Even if in the short term it's a new variation on existing products, it's still encouraging.

Skyline2uk

[AdrianC]

Mr Kato could take my money now if he did a TPE liveried one 

[paulbeckwith]

  hi  john

re  extending  your  layout ...  do  you  live  in  a  semi  and  do  you  get  on  with  your  neighbors  ?? knock  thru  ...  only  joking



   paul

[GlenEglise]

Hi all,

During Hiroshi Kato's talk on both days he confirmed that Kato have tooled up the additional coaches to create a 9-car Class 800 and he expected these models to be here by Spring 2024.

cheers

Ben A.

Hi Ben, I am left wondering if this will be an "add-on" pack of coaches or a complete nine car set?

Do you have any information on that?

Kind regards,

GE

[Trainfish]

  hi  john

re  extending  your  layout ...  do  you  live  in  a  semi  and  do  you  get  on  with  your  neighbors  ?? knock  thru  ...  only  joking



   paul

You may or may not be surprised to hear that I did mention this to my neighbour a few years ago. I don't think she thought I was serious 

[Adam1701D]

Hi all,

During Hiroshi Kato's talk on both days he confirmed that Kato have tooled up the additional coaches to create a 9-car Class 800 and he expected these models to be here by Spring 2024.

cheers

Ben A.

Hi Ben, I am left wondering if this will be an "add-on" pack of coaches or a complete nine car set?

Do you have any information on that?

Kind regards,

GE

The 5 and 9 car sets are in different number series, so it would make sense to do the 9-cars as one complete rake.

[geoffc]

The GWR model already produced by Kato is a Class 800, the GWR 9 car units are 800/3 and 802/1. The 9 car sets run with different types of coaches e.g. TPS & TP2 also the main visual difference is the door surrounds, white on the 800 and body colour on the 800/3 and 802/1. Therefore a re-run of existing 800 coaches to make a 9 car set will be wrong, it needs to be a new 800/3 set entirely.

Geoff

[paulbeckwith]

i  feel  a  2nd  mortgage   coming  on  ??

   paul

[GlenEglise]

Hi all,

During Hiroshi Kato's talk on both days he confirmed that Kato have tooled up the additional coaches to create a 9-car Class 800 and he expected these models to be here by Spring 2024.

cheers

Ben A.

Hi Ben, I am left wondering if this will be an "add-on" pack of coaches or a complete nine car set?

Do you have any information on that?

Kind regards,

GE

The 5 and 9 car sets are in different number series, so it would make sense to do the 9-cars as one complete rake.

I guess I was wrong in shelling out for a five car set in that case......

CAVEAT EMPTOR

or whatever.

[Kris]

i  feel  a  2nd  mortgage   coming  on  ??

   paul

The 5 coach versions are very competitively priced. I see no reason why a 9 coach set would not also be priced in the same way.

[gc4946]

A 9-car 8XX unit will be far too long for my layout.
I hope Kato also announces 5-car sets in Transpennine Express livery 

[jpendle]

A 9-car 8XX unit will be far too long for my layout.
I hope Kato also announces 5-car sets in Transpennine Express livery 

So do I, I think. Because who knows what units will be running and what colour they'll be, now that TPE has lost the franchise.
And I think the TPE 802/2 units have detail differences compared to the LNER and GWR CL802's

Regards,

John P

[Chris Morris]

I'm happy. My longest storage siding will take 2x5 car 800s. I do like seeing the 2x5 running and I am sure a 1x9 would look equally impressive. And as alluded to above, the chances are that it will be relatively affordable.