The End Of The Model Railway Hobby! - 6 MONTHS LATER

6 months ago, many were predicting the end of the model railway hobby... has anything changed?

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At the start of 2024, the model railway hobby was hit with several pieces of devastating news in that Hatton's would be closing their doors, the Warley show would not be returning to the NEC and Hornby had once again given us a slightly underwhelming set of announcements for their new range. I made a video covering all of this news at the time but even so, the news made it to the national papers. Some people were even going as far to say that this would be the death of model railways and that in six months time the hobby would be unrecognisable... if it was even still around.

Well 6 months have now passed and I think now is a good time to look back on each of the situations, considering that we now have a bit more hindsight. There's also been several developments to the situation too so let's dive in and see just how much the model railway hobby has changed!

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:46 - More Hornby Announcements
07:37 - Hattons Closure Aftermath
10:37 - Warley Exhibition Returns?
15:07 - Has Anything Changed?

Thanks for watching 😃