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Hard to believe. For those outside the UK Hattons is almost an institution in the railway modelling world here

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2024/01/ha ... osure.html

Rik

Wow! Hard to believe as you say.

Astonishing, isn't it?

Sad too. I haven't used them in decades, since moving out into the garden, but I used to order my indoor supplies from them, following in my Dad's footsteps - he showed me how to write rather formal letters to order things, always beginning "Dear Sirs"... and promising to enclose a cheque made out to the appropriate amount. Their adverts in the railway press still fill me with nostalgia (and longing after things I can't afford and don't have room for!), I shall miss them...

I did visit their shop a few years ago. Quite by accident. I was taking a friend to Liverpool and stumbled across it on what was for me an obscure back road. It was like an Aladdin's Cave.

I think I only ever bought a couple of 00 locos and a few items of goods stock from them, but it's always sad to see an established supplier disappear.

Rik

Hi Rik,

I used Hattons a lot when I was into N gauge, wow my eyes must have been a lot better then