Quote from: Newportnobby on April 08, 2026, 02:26:03 PMI was never that hot on The Moodies. At school they were classed as a 'girlie' band

Maybe it was Justin Hayward the lasses were swooning over. Him and his immaculate hair do

I found The Moody Blues a bit of a something of nothing, impressive album covers but musically of little substance (IMO). Perhaps because I was listening to King Crimson, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Hendrix, Pink Fairies, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP, Caravan and Van der Graf Generator etc. at the time!!

Tim

i read somewhere the old farish poole hall looks more like a modified hall.

Who'd have thought Dr B would go to such extremes to close a line?! 

Thanks for that Steve.
It's rather disappointing that they are only producing the 4 models and if I remember correctly that's only a black modified hall with late crest.

I'll probably buy it to go with my two Dapol Halls (one green and one black) but wonder in N if it's going to be easy to identify the diffrrence between modified and original halls.

Strawbs were a great band live.

Currently listening too Jack-e Mcauley / The Poor Mouth, another band that were great live but are not really well known.

I was curious as to when the Modified Halls with a Hawksworth tender would appear, so contacted Bachmann-Farish.

Here is their kind and quick response, which I am sharing.


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Good morning Steve,

 

Thank you for taking the time to contact us.

 

Currently we don't have any further versions of the Graham Farish 'Hall' and 'Modified Hall' Class locomotives planned for production beyond the four models that were announced in 2025 and are due for release this year. Future production will no doubt include versions with the Hawksworth Tender, however these would only progress through the development process once the versions that we are currently marketing have been delivered and have sold through.

 

Kind regards,


Richard

 


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"Gone rogue" - A bit like the "t" in put  .

Another thinking of you George, you take care and enjoy the Viz albums but don't laugh too much, something might pop!

Now the Moodies were seen as quite cool at my school. Probably a South v North thing.

I liked BJH , King Crimson and The Strawbs too although, for some reason, I never saw BJH.

Anyway, talking of Kettles of Fish......

I was never that hot on The Moodies. At school they were classed as a 'girlie' band
Now BJH, King Crimson, The Strawbs etc were a different kettle of fish