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

[cornish yorkie]

 
    Obviously couldn`t resist this model, GWR from ROS, thank you MR Kato.
        stay safe regards Derek.

[Trainfish]

I ordered the same a while back. Should look good alongside my green GWR HST 

[daffy]

Keith at Train Trax email this morning:

"Just announced the release of the Class 800's will be May 2021. This will be a limited run and a further production  run will not take place until 2023."

[RailGooner]

Umph. I don't like that.

[njee20]

Presumably confirms they really are just dipping a toe into the water.

[RailGooner]

Also means very little chance of any discount.

[NGS-PO]

But it's an excellent price already, isn't it?  I'm not sure you'd really want it to be discounted.

I'm not sure I see the difference between this and any other manufacturer.  Farish, Dapol, Revolution, Rapido all produce what in effect are limited runs and don't re-issue for, in some cases, many more than 2 years.

At least in this case we've been told off the bat what the situation, like Rapido and Revolution do.  I like that approach.

Best

Scott.

[RailGooner]

If it only costs a penny I'd still like a little discount.

[Adam1701D]

I guess that means we won't be seeing the Trans-Pennine or Hull Trains 802s anytime soon, without a little outside intervention

[Newportnobby]

But it's an excellent price already, isn't it? 

At least in this case we've been told off the bat what the situation, like Rapido and Revolution do.  I like that approach.

Agree on both counts. Just compare the Kato 5 car IET with a Farish 3 car DMU and you'll soon see a price difference!

[Adam1701D]

As a comparison, the RRP for the 5-car IEP is the same as a Farish 2-Car Class 170 (with no lights, DCC or separate mouldings).

Shurly shome mishtake?

[GlenEglise]

Don't suppose there is much hope of getting the LNER, Hitachi IEP Bi-Mode Class 800/1, 'Azuma' 9 car set then?

[NGS-PO]

I'd say the answer very much depends on how well these first models do for Kato.  If they do well out of them, then eventually you'd have to surmise other versions will follow.

If, however, they tank, or Kato don't see a future in UK outline...then the wait might be even longer.

Best

Scott.

[railsquid]

Don't suppose there is much hope of getting the LNER, Hitachi IEP Bi-Mode Class 800/1, 'Azuma' 9 car set then?

I imagine proving there's high demand for the model in general, followed by a nice letter to Mr. Kato (very nice chap, had the pleasure of meeting him once), might result in runs of further variations. Kato do like to get the most out of their tooling (they still do runs of stuff first produced 40 or 50 years ago) so I imagine they're in it for the longer term.

[Snowwolflair]

No one has mentioned that they are specked to join two sets to make a 10 car unit.  That is a really good feature.