I've just wired in my first ever hardwired decoder, following Trains4U's J94 guide. As is to be expected, I did some bits my own way, but it worked first time! Advance warning for my in laws - I'll be going there soon for help with grinding the weight away to fit the decoder. Now I'll have to wire my sidings so I can play shunting. I built a couple of headshunt type things when I was laying them as I intended to use DCC in the long run, and now I've got to work out how to wire it. This whole DCC thing is nothing like as scary as I'd made it out to be to myself, so I think I'll carry on trying to see what works and what doesn't. And what doesn't work I won't do again!

More later and maybe a picture when I've got the whole thing back together and found a camera with batteries.