It is a shame that Hattons has decided to close all their operations. Change is happening in the model railway world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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more expensive pieces of kit<\/p>\n\n\n\n
more individual models and more choice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the removal of pre-release models at discounts from suppliers such as Hornby<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the universal use of the internet in buying models – there is no absolute need for a front end physical store and all internet stores appear to be equal – they really compete only on price (a bit on reputation too)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t think that model railways are a dying hobby – but I suspect that there will be yet more change in suppliers to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is a shame that Hattons has decided to close all their operations. Change is happening in the model railway world: more expensive pieces of kit more individual models and more choice the removal of pre-release models at discounts from suppliers such as Hornby the universal use of the internet in buying models – there is no absolute need for a front end physical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}