Christmas Wishes

Its probably a bit late to be thinking of what we want for Christmas, but here are a few of the items we’d like the Reindeer Express to deliver.

I’d love a rake of electric motor units (“EMU”s) in BR Southern Region green. We’ve got two carriages that are pulled by locos, but they are in different scales (HO and OO) and look out of place together!

The Hornby Trackmaster software sounds good, although I haven’t seen a proper review of it yet. I’ve spent a lot of time searching for software to help plan layouts, and they all have drawbacks – Hornby’s previous attempts have been interesting, and fun, but somehow tended to stop just before they were really useful!

We would all love a really impressive steam loco and tender set. But they are certainly not cheap at roughly £130 plus!

Al would like a “cleaner train”. We’ve talked about track maintenance in the blog, and one option is to have a train clean the track. There are some really cool examples (including one by Dapol) which have tanks to store cleaning fluid, and “hoover” type vacuums” which pick up power from the track. 

But overall the things we’d probably love most would be more space for our layout (preferably in the warm rather than out in our garage) and more time to spend “playing” trains together.

Wherever you are and whatever you are up to in train set scale or in real life, we wish you a Happy Christmas.

Ps if you are still looking for your own Christmas gift (to give away or to keep for yourself) check out the train sets sold by Hornby and Bachman – they are great value compared to buying the individual items, and you will often find some sets being offered at a big discount around Christmas.

pps thanks to "callmestacy" via photobucket for the tree picture.