Hey Jack this new site is excellent that station announcers still says all trains to edinburgh juncton lol so we now have servises to and from u lol the 153 and pendo change along route to 390012 and 153359 lol but the gc and 37s should stay the same hehe if thats alright with you Jack ? you can send locos to repair at the tmd aswell lol Many Thanks Richard ps i have changed my name to 60maniac so every things the same you tube and flickr then much easier to find me

Hi Jack, good to see the layout continuing on the new forum.

Keep the updates coming

Ste

Hi Richard! It is isn't it! Yep! Did you know about the NBE - EDJ freight run by DB Schenker? lol Also new services from EDJ to NBE and back by GC... can't wait to run them lol! I will be sending 37239 down there soon, the low loader will be arriving soon fresh from the depot in the next few weeks to take it down... lol Its not easy for me. The Chosen One... on flckr, Javelin395 on YouTube, Edinburgh Junction on RMweb.... its complicated!

Hi Ste! It is good to be on here, rather than the older forum. Can't wait to get things under way properly... need to do some work on it first... sort out that gallery! lol

ok lol yh the virgin mk3 has been pulled out of the rake so awaiting for Hornby to get there second batch of carriages out then i can have a proper rake also pendo pantograph carriage has been on test for clearnace i have had a few isue wit it so will be dealing with them over the coming weeks plus its Your birthday so then the GC service can commence still thinking of station names for the branch

Right.... Im going to be running 3 carriage services (first, buffet and standard) for it to be able to fit onto the station. The services will commence towards the end of the month... Pendo services will start tomorrow, with a 4 carriage service (???). Birthday next saturday, so GC power cars arriving on saturday, but not sure about the carriages.

Got some plasticard yesterday at the MMRS exhibition in Manchester, 2x 1mm sheets, but need to order another. Going to get them from Amera Plastic Mouldings, but for the P&P price, Im going to get 5 sheets, plus ??2 P&P. One of those sheets is going to the control panel, along with the two I got yesterday. The others are going to the depot and sidings, because it is just the right thickness to be in level with the rails, and it will be covered in scalescenes concrete sheeting.

Pendo services being the 1 tht runs to NBE ? starting tmorw will be fine will get a video afterschool then at the start of the new service i cant current get hold of the 3rd carrige for the gc set so will dig aroud for it i can get 4 at a stretch in platform 1 and about 6 lms carriges so

Right... I will do so as well!

Big update this evening! I have got 2 more signals wired! They are the thru line, and platform 1 on the eastbound signal gantry. A video is going up later onto youtube on my section: Javelin395

Great vid mate 5*

Video is up and running, and can be found

Great vid mate will get a video today try and find some red ribbon

Here is the new road plan all laid out. The road between the hill and start of car park is now widened, and there is a little stick out, for one way proiorities, due to the overhanging rock face. The website is now being updated to the latest news.... To got to the website, please click on this link

PS: Note the new ballast in the sidings?!?!?!?!

looks great mate

Cheers! New addition to the layout...

Also 7th signal done and ready to go with day-to-day passenger services. Also, the dodgy signal is about to be stripped, and re-wired to see what was wrong... signals are also going to be glued into place.... birthday on saturady - Grand Central HST services...

He he! Just been out, to get a transformer (for the point motors) and some more wire! That meant I could get my final, and 8th signal all wired up! And I DID!!!!!!!!!!!!

Video going up soon, along with some pictures....

Ordering a few things tonight... they are:

Lancaster City Models - DRS 20 '00 gauge' Compass livery transfers

Railmatch - 305 Bufferbeam red

Railmatch - 419 Matt Black

Another update!

Drilling for the point motors done earlier, point motors and control panel going to be done next week. You can also see some of the new walling sitting in place. Picture time!

With the 7 point motors all cut down to size, and ready for installing, I started on it today. It took me over 1 hour to get the point motor in place! Then another half hour getting it wired up! Then, it works! It finally works! YAY!!!! This point motor is situated on the other side of platform 3.... thank god it works! lol

Update: You may not have known, but whenever my GC HST was pushing (power car at the end, dummy at the front), the carriage behind the dummy car would derail. Now, its been bugging me why it has happened, but now, I have found out. Under the doorway on the HST, is a dummy knuckle coupling. The hook from the carriage is catching on that, and it is pushing the bogie from the carriage off. The knuckle coupling has been taken off (it just pops out!) and it works perfectly now! Now all thats left is to tidy up the bloomin points! Derailments due to track not in the right place.... dear me! lol

Hi Jack wht are u using to extend the point motor arms ? can't wait to see it all in action

Evening Richard! I use the Hornby Point Motors, which come with an extension arm and attachment. Its really easy to put on! Comes with all Hornby point motors

o mine didnt or maybe it did just gone for a walk will have to order some point motor's soon then get them wired in to the R8247

Good news from today:

The 20 conversion continues, a new coat of DRS blue has gone up! And is currently drying. Also, 2 more point motors fitted and wired up (the crossover west side of layout), but the holes need to be bigger, due to the clearance for the pin being to bad

Bad news from today:

I have had some news about my 2 paints I ordered from Railmatch website.... they are not there. The payment has been taken out, but they aren't listening. No telephone number, do address, only an email. I've rung up Model depot, which is where they distribute, and no answer, but a message left. Going to put a thingy into paypal to get my money back. Im going to order the paints from Gaugemaster instead. Also, one of the point motors has seized up, and it is now dead, so going to get a new one tomorrow whilst at Chester. Also (and yes, more bad news) I got a new resistor for the dead signal, and it doesn't work full stop. New signal going to be ordered later on in the week.

Another set of good news from today. Got my 3 eastbound point motors fitted, and started to wire them up. Will continue tomorrow, and will get the final point motor fitted at the weekend (need to do some work on the area underneath first). Also, the DRS 20 paint is going well. Finall main coat going on at 8pm, and then the transfers (not the compass one though, just the 'DIRECT RAIL SERVICES' bit) are going on in the morning. Then I shall continue painting the yellow bits, and wait for my bl**dy paint to arrive. Oh well!

Looks great Jack personally i would of primerd it to hide everything but you have done it well