Hornby did do an upgrade of the HAA hopper about five or six years ago, providing sprung metal buffers, better underframe detailing and of the inside the hopper, metal wheels and a different paint finish concerning the hopper interior.
Class 06 shunter; it's Bachmann that does the 03s.
I thought that the 06 in RfD livery (Released in 2001 IIRC) looked pretty smart (Though as you say, totally fitictious of course), I'll probably get my hands on one eventually, though they don't seem to appear second hand nearly as often as many of Hornbys' other small 0-4-0 locos.
Class 06 shunter; it's Bachmann that does the 03s.
It's probably because they used to be absolutely everywhere across most areas of Britain: Growing up in north east England through the nineties, and into the early 2000s, I used to see hundreds, if not thousands, of them.I've often wondered this. What is it about these particular wagons that makes them so wanted? I wonder if it's because no-one else makes them (or even anything similar)?
I've got about 6 myself in varying degrees of filth.
Aye; 03s have six wheels, 06s have four wheels, is the easiest way to tell the difference between the two.
This thread has given me a bit of an urge to purchase some more!
