New Peco 9 inch set track 009 points

[George Surridge]

There appears to be a lot of negativity about this development on the Peco announcement thread and it seems that this is a repeat of what has been said numerous times by the so called 'experienced modeller'.
I want to start this thread by saying that whilst this is a 'one size fits all' approach for many it is common sense. There is a large majority of us who want to just build layouts and run trains and this new development will fit the bill nicely. I also want to give credit to Peco who are doing their utmost to move OO9 on and promote it to new users.
Yes, we want reasonable running and, yes, we want something that is easy to install and use. I am a firm believer in the KISS (keep it simple stupid) approach to modelling. If Peco has created a single product that allows us all to model then what else do we want? Being a Peco product, it will work out of the box and for most of us it will not need any changes. If you want to do 'black belt' trackwork then you can modify it or you can decide to build your own trackwork  if you have infinite time available.
I see no problem with the Unifrog approach and many thanks to Peco for supporting OO9 as much as they have been doing recently.

Well that sounds perfect to me.  When will it be in the shops, I need to replace some points.
GS
Norfolk

[B.Meldon]

I think the problem is the physical size of the unifrog on a 9 inch pint is just too small to manufacture successfully and make it work as it should.
So from what I understand the first of the 9 inch points will indeed be dead frog but with the idea that hopefully an electrofrog version will be produced at a later date and tooling will be made with this in mind.
Also I think you will find that the points will not have the extended sleepers and dummy leaver as seen in the prototypes.
But this is all unofficial so it could be incorrect.

Brian Meldon