Yeah, I know it's early, but apparently various retailers haven't managed to figure out the "Friday" bit in "Black Friday" refers to a day ::)
Anyhow ... Hornby have the BR version of the Brighton Belle at 50% off ... yup, £99.99 instead of "199.99 ... have at it & good luck ...
http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/hornby-arnold-n-gauge/hornby-arnold-n-gauge-sr-5-bel-brighton-belle-pullman-5-car-train-pack-1969-website-exclusive.html?utm_campaign=850785_Hornby%20-%20Black%20Friday%20Starts%20Now%20-%20Week%2035%202015&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Hornby%20PLC&utm_content=HN3002&_%24ja=tsid%3A71284&dm_i=2DJZ,I8GX,2AOR7A,16NXF,1 (http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/hornby-arnold-n-gauge/hornby-arnold-n-gauge-sr-5-bel-brighton-belle-pullman-5-car-train-pack-1969-website-exclusive.html?utm_campaign=850785_Hornby%20-%20Black%20Friday%20Starts%20Now%20-%20Week%2035%202015&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Hornby%20PLC&utm_content=HN3002&_%24ja=tsid%3A71284&dm_i=2DJZ,I8GX,2AOR7A,16NXF,1)
Ordered my Brighton Belle :D
Rule 1 it is!
Train trax is continuing his 10% sale over Black Friday
http://www.traintrax.co.uk/specials.php (http://www.traintrax.co.uk/specials.php)
All items in stock, including Sale items, can be included.
If your spend is £50.00 or more enter the discount code
Friday
at checkout and the saving is yours!
Quote from: MikeDunn on November 23, 2015, 01:17:50 PM
Yeah, I know it's early, but apparently various retailers haven't managed to figure out the "Friday" bit in "Black Friday" refers to a day ::)
Anyhow ... Hornby have the BR version of the Brighton Belle at 50% off ... yup, £99.99 instead of "199.99 ... have at it & good luck ...
http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/hornby-arnold-n-gauge/hornby-arnold-n-gauge-sr-5-bel-brighton-belle-pullman-5-car-train-pack-1969-website-exclusive.html?utm_campaign=850785_Hornby%20-%20Black%20Friday%20Starts%20Now%20-%20Week%2035%202015&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Hornby%20PLC&utm_content=HN3002&_%24ja=tsid%3A71284&dm_i=2DJZ,I8GX,2AOR7A,16NXF,1 (http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/hornby-arnold-n-gauge/hornby-arnold-n-gauge-sr-5-bel-brighton-belle-pullman-5-car-train-pack-1969-website-exclusive.html?utm_campaign=850785_Hornby%20-%20Black%20Friday%20Starts%20Now%20-%20Week%2035%202015&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Hornby%20PLC&utm_content=HN3002&_%24ja=tsid%3A71284&dm_i=2DJZ,I8GX,2AOR7A,16NXF,1)
That must have sold very badly if they're reducing it by that much!
I suspect it's close to the last gasp of stock on their shelves, given they did an £80 drop for a short time a while back on both types.
Be rude not to at that price !!
Ian.
Payday Wednesday, I hope there are some left by then
im not seeing many decent bargains so far!
and as much as the brighton belle is a good deal, im not buying it just for the sake of it, iv already got my choc/ cream one, dont need or want the blue one.
nothing else of interest so far though!
Quote from: portland-docks on November 24, 2015, 01:30:30 PM
im not seeing many decent bargains so far!
Well ... let's be brutally honest : Black Friday does not exist for the potential customer to make savings; it exists to allow the retailer to sell off stock that isn't moving, or is a remnant (eg last 5 items of an obsolete model - you know, the type Currys do), at a price that will likely get it shifted albeit at a much-reduced profit.
If you happen to be interested in what they're trying to get rid of, then you get your bargain; otherwise ... you just see (not-quite-as) expensive tat :P
https://railsofsheffield.com/default.aspx
Black Friday bargains
Graham Farish 2x 377-335 Sets of 3 Conflats with AF Containers (Weathered) 377-335x2
Graham Farish 2x 377-335 Sets of 3 Conflats with AF Containers (Weathered)
buy now - £49.50 RRP: £79.90
Set of 3 377-600A Loadhaul BDA Bogie Bolster Wagons 377-600Ax3
3X 377-600A
buy now - £44.50 RRP: £74.85
Lot of 3 Scenecraft 42-108 N Gauge 42-108 Farm Barns 42-108x3
EQUIVALENT TO BUY ONE AND GET TWO FREE!
buy now - £29.95 RRP: £89.95
Ash Plant 64mm x 56mm x 127mm 42-086
Ash Plant 64mm x 56mm x 127mm
buy now - £24.50 RRP: £44.95
The Belle had gone by the time I looked on Hornby.
However the club did pick up two OO-gauge train sets discounted from £120 to £50 to use as tombola prizes at the next show. The logic here is that a OO train set attracts more general punters to the tombola than an N-gauge one......
All the very best
Les
Quote from: Les1952 on November 27, 2015, 11:29:50 AM
The Belle had gone by the time I looked on Hornby.
Still there today as far as I can see? :
http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/hornby-arnold-n-gauge/hornby-arnold-n-gauge-sr-5-bel-brighton-belle-pullman-5-car-train-pack-1969-website-exclusive.html?utm_campaign=850785_Hornby%20-%20Black%20Friday%20Starts%20Now%20-%20Week%2035%202015&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Hornby%20PLC&utm_content=HN3002&_%24ja=tsid%3A71284&dm_i=2DJZ,I8GX,2AOR7A,16NXF,1 (http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/hornby-arnold-n-gauge/hornby-arnold-n-gauge-sr-5-bel-brighton-belle-pullman-5-car-train-pack-1969-website-exclusive.html?utm_campaign=850785_Hornby%20-%20Black%20Friday%20Starts%20Now%20-%20Week%2035%202015&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Hornby%20PLC&utm_content=HN3002&_%24ja=tsid%3A71284&dm_i=2DJZ,I8GX,2AOR7A,16NXF,1)
Cheers,
Alan
Yep, just ordered one. Don't need it, but for £100 seems rude not to!
Of course with the illuminated interiors, will I need to glue in lots and lots of miniature people? Watching the video linked below, quite a few 70s-era celebrities would be required!
Cheers, NeMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkebZOjpgQE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkebZOjpgQE)
Did I see Dudley Moore next to Jimmy Edwards??
Quote from: Railwaygun on November 27, 2015, 05:35:33 PM
Did I see Dudley Moore next to Jimmy Edwards??
Hmm... looks like him, but I don't think so.
Quite the selection of celebs though.
The early 70s is a fascinating era to me. Anyone in their mid 40s or older would have been an adult during the Second World War. So a lot of the middle aged and older people there, whether celebs or BR workers, would have served in one way or another. They would have had that experience in common. Even people in their 30s would have had some memories of the war, whether bombing or parents having been serving abroad or at home.
So far all that supposed divisiveness we're told about -- the trade unions versus the Conservatives and all that sort of thing -- I think that time was the last time rich and poor operated in the same world. Get to the 1980s, and for good or bad economics changed so much that people operated in different worlds. Modern celebs and politicians wouldn't have anything in common with the person selling the egg sandwiches in the Virgin trains buffet-bar.
Anyway, my point is: a bit of social history going on there. Celebs taking the train down to Brighton to perform on the stage. Jimmy Edwards served in the RAF for example, and Flora Robson was part of that group of actors involved as much in propaganda films as "entertaining the troops". The very idea of a train being the appropriate way to get to a provincial city is pretty well unimaginable nowadays, let alone celebs and regular folks sitting together in a parlour car!
Cheers, NeMo
Fascinating piece of footage, NeMo. Thanks for posting! :thumbsup:
I know I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but Collett's Models has had some stuff on sale this week. I ordered a Jinty in LMS livery for 60£, which I was happy about. At any rate, here's the link to the n-gauge clearance: https://www.collettsmodelshop.co.uk/clearance/clearance-model-railway/clearance-model-railway-n-gauge (https://www.collettsmodelshop.co.uk/clearance/clearance-model-railway/clearance-model-railway-n-gauge)
I have tried this on one driving car, expecting the lighting (which is adjustable by the way, try changing the position of the copper link piece on the board) to highlight the lack of punters. However I found that the curtained windows obscured any real chance of seeing seated passengers. Perhaps in 00? - but have a bash and see what you think.
Eh?
NeMo
Quote from: Howlin`baz on November 30, 2015, 05:03:23 AM
I have tried this on one driving car, expecting the lighting (which is adjustable by the way, try changing the position of the copper link piece on the board) to highlight the lack of punters. However I found that the curtained windows obscured any real chance of seeing seated passengers. Perhaps in 00? - but have a bash and see what you think.
Sorry - this was for he `Peeps in the Brighton Belle thread` don`t know how it got here . . .
Where is this thread? Got one of these beauties on the way thanks to Hornby's sale!
NeMo
Quote from: Howlin`baz on November 30, 2015, 12:51:48 PM
Sorry - this was for he `Peeps in the Brighton Belle thread` don`t know how it got here . . .
Sorry - this was for he `Peeps in the Brighton Belle thread` don`t know how it got here . . .
http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=30577.msg347870#msg347870 (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=30577.msg347870#msg347870)