I am glad you are all sorted Syd.

ccmmick.

Thanks for the review John H-T. I did manage to get a short look at one that was being shown off in a model shop. The guy said that the light was one of those bright LEDs but that he would tone it down with a bit of paint around the head code box. He must have done something to the pick up as well as they looked OK to me, come to think of it, they were black apart from the ends behind the wheels. Must say I only saw it for a few Min's before he left the shop, but I liked what I saw.

Looking to add one to my layout ASAP, but although i don't mind paying for a quality product, I think a £90 price tag would have been more realistic, just my opinion of course...

I have to say I agree with you ACE. I am still holding out inspite of a very favourable review in Model Rail this week. Interestingly they pick up two of my niggles: the bright metal pick ups and the droopy couplings.

There also seems to be some difficulty in getting inside to fit a DCC chip, according to various postings on RMWEB.

I might gamble on Bachmann producing a 00 version in a few years time as they will have done all the development work on the N scale version. I understand that the total production for the Hatton's 14 is 2,600, although they may do a second batch. I suppose it depends how robust the tooling is.

Best wishes,

John H-T.