BH Enterprises - sad news

[nharding99]

(Posted in accordance with Brian's wishes and permission)

[pape_timmo]

Deepest condolences to you and your family.

[crewearpley40]

Our thoughts,prayers and condolences to Andrew, Brian and the family.

Will be missed. 

[Newportnobby]

Very sad news. My thoughts go out to all the family and friends.

[emjaybee]

Aw man. Sad news indeed. I know Ray hadn't been well for a while, but it's still a sad day. I didn't know him particularly well, but he was always a very pleasant chap to deal with, always very helpful and happy to have a chat.

Condolences to his family, may he rest in peace.

[Graham]

Always sad when one of the stalwart's of the industry pass. RIP.

[Bob G]

I remember the first time I ever came across Ray and BH Enterprises. It was at a model railway exhibition in Abingdon in 1994. I bought tons of stuff. DMU kits, EMU kits, class 73 kit, class 59 kit. It was like finding an Aladdin's cave, and BHE was like that for as long as I can remember.

Rest well Ray. The glue on your models has set fine.

Bob 

[Nbodger]

Sad news indeed, It must be some 25 years since I last dealt with Ray, always friendly, helpful and enthusiastic, he will be sadly missed by the modelling community.

RIP

[RailGooner]

Very sad news. A great loss.

RIP Ray

[Stuart Down Under]

I remember the first time I ever came across Ray and BH Enterprises. It was at a model railway exhibition in Abingdon in 1994. I bought tons of stuff. DMU kits, EMU kits, class 73 kit, class 59 kit. It was like finding an Aladdin's cave, and BHE was like that for as long as I can remember.

Exactly the same for me - I also found Ray's trade stand back in the early 90s, and his cornucopia of N gauge "bits" gave me the confidence to continue in N. I haven't seen him since we left UK in 2016, but there are still a couple of kits in the "to do" box which came with me.

There are a fair few pioneer n-gaugers up there already, so they should have a great layout ready for us when we arrive. I will raise a glass to you, Ray.

[Bob Tidbury]

I will really miss Ray we went to so many shows around the country and we visited lots of railway related places over the 35+ years that I helped on the trade stand ,and I remember all the kit packing I did over in his back room especially counting out thousands of buffers into bags of 4 and sticking the price sticker on ,one night after one of those days I went to sleep counting buffers instead of sheep .
R I P  Ray
I am sure you will be met in heaven by some of the other well known railway men and women .
Bob Tidbury
Thank you to Nigel for posting Brian and Andrews message on here ,I was asked to but  still havent worked out how you do it .

[Roy L S]

I think most of us will have frequently perused BHE's stand at shows over more years than we would care to admit, and many of us will still have unmade BHE kits amongst our "stash" of the many useful items one would find there. Ray and BHE's contribution to the success and indeed at one point maybe even survival British N Gauge was significant and should not be underestimated.

He will be sadly missed by many,  my heartfelt condolences to Andy, Brian and family.

Roy

[Tonye]

Sad news indeed, I last saw Ray at TINGS 2023 .

Rest in peace.

Tony.

[AdrianC]

Such sad news. Prayers and condolenses to the family.

[JBQFC]

this is sad news Ray was always very helpful when i talked to him on the sales stand I have quite a few of his kits on my layout will be missed