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

Ordered my Brighton Belle 
Rule 1 it is!

Train  trax is continuing his 10% sale over Black Friday

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

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 

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

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

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