The recent TGV visit to St Pancras, and ICE before it, along with those diesels that dragged them through Kent, got me thinking about the long term future of OO scale.
DB will be running services on HS1, along side the Eurostar e320 in a couple of years, but I'm having difficulty imagining these sets modeled in 1:76. If hornby choose to model HS2 captive stock in OO, the 16.5mm track will look awfully narrow.
With more European types likely entering the UK as competition opens up on HS1, and HS2 eventually opening the North of England to European loading gauge vehicles, how long before HO gains a foothold among modern British outline modelers?
What would it take for OO collectors to switch?
DB will be running services on HS1, along side the Eurostar e320 in a couple of years, but I'm having difficulty imagining these sets modeled in 1:76. If hornby choose to model HS2 captive stock in OO, the 16.5mm track will look awfully narrow.
With more European types likely entering the UK as competition opens up on HS1, and HS2 eventually opening the North of England to European loading gauge vehicles, how long before HO gains a foothold among modern British outline modelers?
What would it take for OO collectors to switch?