This working for a living lark certainly gets in the way of a bit of decent modelling time. Anyway, I have cleaned up the OLE today and made the small repairs needed to some of the masts. I have taken away all of the old contact wire and everything is now set for rewiring.

Drawing on experience now gained I intend to try out a new way of tensioning the wires. I am building a small pulley tower from Meccanno which will take the contact wire's free end and run over a couple of pulleys to a balance weight - If gravity works best on the real railway, then I rekon it should work for me... I have said before that I do not like springs for tensioning as they impart a variable force on the wire, whereas gravity is a constant (at least where I live anyway). I have a wire run of about sixteen feet to tension, and this in itself is a challenge in 'OO', and add in the temperature variations of a garage then I think the Meccanno solution might just work.

With the wires down, I have taken the opportunity to stretch the scenic area of the layout. I will move the tunnel mouth back by a foot or so to allow me to have a four car platform instead of a three. This is a must really as I have a Class 321/9 ready to paint and it would be nice for it to have somewhere to stop!

Speaking of rolling stock, I picked up a couple of Bachmann's new class 150's. Now this has got me wondering.... I recall that GMPTE had a few triple sets like Centro in the West Midlands, although they are now disbanded, but I cannot locate a photo. The Bachy Sprinter would make a nice model if converted to a triple in GMPTE livery. Can anyone help with the formation of the GM triples? If I could locate a decent pic I would like to have a go at this one.

Cheers for now,

Chris.