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I'm not sure this is entirely a bad thing. Hornby's buying the Lima group should result in better quality and steady supplies at reasonable prices - not something Lima managed over here in recent years (towards the end, Lima's list prices with their regular rises were totally unrealistic considering their dire loco drive systems, lack of detailing, etc. Basically you were not getting value for money). Obtaining supplies was also tricky at times, and as for spares, well, you had to really need them! Hornby seem to be far better at getting decent models at sensible prices out to the customers, and assuming they plan to continue this with the ranges formerly owned by Lima (I know they plan to get the Rivarossi models back into production ASAP in order to get into the USA market) there could be some very nice steamers out there in a year or so. I suspect Hornby will be far nicer to deal with than Horizon reportedly are, judging by the reports on here of Horizon's activities and what I've heard from friends in the trade about Hornby (one of my LHS persuaded Hornby to make a limited edition train pack complete with loco headboard - impressive that Hornby are willing to consider a special order of only 1000 units!). Just my thoughts!
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