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  1. Towards the end of the FELL 1 topic, there was correspondence relating to the possibility / feasibility of 3D printed fittings to correct the errors in the body shell of the locomotive (nose grills, body side window replacement grill, roof exhaust and water filler units etc). Did anything ever come to fruition and if so, from where?
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    A two day exhibition with layouts in all the popular scales, traders, show-you-how demonstrations, club shop and a full refreshment service. Full layout / trader details to be confirmed in due course. Exhibition is on two floors with disabled access to all areas. Venue is close to Rainhill Station (Liverpool/Manchester line) and Arriva / Stagecoach bus srvice 10A Liverpool/Rainhill/St Helens route. Admission and Club Shop payment can by cash or credit card. There will be a free hourly vintage bus service running on SUNDAY only between the North West Museum of Road Transport, Hall Street, St Helens and the exhibition venue. Please note that admission to the museum is not included but tickets can be purchased on the door (well worth a visit - vintage buses, tram, cars, lorries, motor bikes and bicycles) Opening times; Saturday 1000 - 1700, Sunday 1000 - 1630. Admission; Adults £7.00 Children £4.00 Family (2+2) £18.00 Contact email; brianandertondavis@gmail.com or via website; rainhillmrc.org.uk or facebook; rainhillmrc LAYOUTS ATTENDING - Sowerby Station (O), Ashfield (N), Fabelwood (OO9), Mortomley (OO), Pitt Lane (OO), Arnold Lane (OO), Duffs Brewery (OO), Vale View (O), Winter Overcoats (OO9), Cripple Corner (O), Smallville and Wilkston (Hon30 1/87) , Crinan (OO), Goodley Lane TMD (OO), Lydstone (N), Middleton Road (OO), Cregan (OO), Vulcan Works (OO), Prescot Aggregates (OO9). TRADERS ATTENDING - SMTF, Enwins 3d Models, Leigh Models and Hobbies, PL Models, CM3 Models, GM Transport Books, Powerbond, Crafty Jo Creations, Rainhill MRC Club Shop. DEMONSTRATORS ATTENDING - Simon Howard (DCC demonstration), Brian Davis (wagon loads), Peter Leyland (Architectural Modelling), Mark Henshaw (Layout planning). INFORMATION STANDS - Rainhill MRC, Rainhill Railway & Heritage Society, The 502 Group, Bury Standard 4 Group, LAWLOGG - The Liverpool & West Lancs O Gauge Group.
  3. This is a family themed show utilising mainly club and club member's layouts in various scales. There will be trade support, club shop, demonstrations and a full refreshment service. Admission; £4.00 Adults and £5.00 Children which includes the opportunuty to visit Santa and receive a small present. Admission and club shop purchases can now be made in cash or by credit / debit card. Admision price includes free admission to the 009 Gauge Society Railway Modelling Show - layouts, trade, demonstrations and society stand. There will be a total of 15 layouts, 8 Traders, Club Shop, 4 Demonstrators on display across the exhibition. Further information visit www.rainhillmrc.org Facebook: rainhillmrc There will be a regular free vintage bus service between the exhibition venue and the North West Museum of Road Transport, Hall Street, St Helens. Admission to the museum is not included but can be purchased on the door
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    A two day event with layouts in all the popular scales, traders, show-you-how demonstrations, club shop and full refreshment service. Exhibition on two floors with disabled access to all areas. Fulll datails of attendees TBC. Opening times; 1000 - 1700 (Sat), 1000-1630 (Sun). Admission by cash or card; Adults £6.00 Children £4.00 Family (2+2) £16.00 Venue: Rainhill Village Hall, Weaver Avenue, Rainhill L35 4LU Exhibition venue is close to Rainhill railway station (Liverpool / Manchestert line) and 10A bus service on Liverpool/Rainhill/St Helens route (Stagecoach/Arriva). There will be a free hourly vintage bus service rumming on both days (timings to be confirmed nearer event date) between THe North West Museum of Road Transport, Hall Street, St Helens and the event venue. Please note that admission to the museum is not included but can be purchased on the door. Contact for further info; Brian Davis 01925226266 email; brianandertondavis@gmail.com
  5. Any ideas as to how long the dynamometer car actually lasted in BR service? I only seem to find a vague reference to the 1950s. Cheers.
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    A two day exhibition with layouts in all the popular scales, traders, show-you-how demonstrations, club shop and refreshment service. Exhibition on two floors with disabled access to all areas. Venue is close to Rainhill Station (Liverpool - Manchester line) and regular bus srvices on Liverpool - Rainhill - St Helens route 10A). There will be a free hourly vintage bus service running on Sunday only between the venue and the North West Museum of Road Transport, Hall Street, St Helens. Please note that admision to the museum is not included but tickets can be purchased on the door (well worth a visit - large vintage bus collection, lorries, cars, motor bikes, cycles etc). Exhibition admission; adults £6.00, children £4.00, family (2+2) £16.00 Opening times ; Saturday 10.00 - 17.00, Sunday 10.00 - 16.30 Admission and Club Shop purchases can now be made by cash or credit card' Contact Brian Davis 01925226266 Layouts attending (17); Glenties (OOn3), Millfield Yard (N), Welby Lane RTC (OO), Oakford Lane CED (OO), Arcadia Pennsylvania - Terminal (O), Woodhill Goods (O), Wormhill (N), Coniston Road Depot (N), Melrose End (OO), Goodley Lane TMD (OO), St Rollox Road Stabling Point (OO), Trams (OO), Rethlow (N), Jager Strassenbahn (HO), Horwich Works (O9), Hill Farm (OO9), Grimbledon Down Light Railway (OO9). Traders attending(7); S.M.T.F., Leigh Models and Hobbies, PL Models, CM3 Models, GM Transport Books, Powerbond, Rainhill MRC club shop. Demonstrators; DCC - Alan Brenchley & Alan Massie (Rainhill MRC). Information stands; Rainhill MRC, Rainhill Railway & Heritage Society, 502 Group, Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, North West Museum of Road Transport.
  7. Nimbus on the move! Just been pinged to confirm my Nimbus order from DEC 2019 is with DHL for delivery tomorrow. Roll on Tuesday.
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    This is a family themed show comprising club, club member's and visiting layouts of various scales, trade support, s-y-h demonstrations, club shop and refreshment service, Details of layouts and traders attending to be confirmed in due course. The venue has disabled access to all areas. Ticket price incldes free admission to the 009 Society Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling Show, traders, demonstrators, held on first floor of the venue. Admission prices; Adults £4.00 Children £5.00 includes opportunity to visit Santa and receive a small present. Payment for admission and club shop purchases can now be made by credit/debit card. Free hourly Vintage Bus service from Museum of Road Transport, Hall Street, St Helens and the exhibition venue. Layouts attending; Thomas (00), Lily Lane (N), West Ridge Mount (HOn30}, Dunnington (00), Sandaig (00), Iron Flats/Lydstone Fiddle Yard (N), Gauge 1, Llynhair (00/009), Enngage Junction (N), St Mary's Quay (009). Tan Yr Allt (009), Fort Whiting (009). Ammobaux (009), 5.5mm modular layout (5.5mm scale), 009 layout, Traders attending; World of Motion, PL Models, S.M.T.F., CM3 Models, GM Transport Books, Powerbond, Rainhill MRC Club Shop, 009 Society Sales Stand, CraftyJo(78) Creations, Demonstors Attending; Brian Davis - Wagon Loads, Alan Brenchley - DCC , Alan Doherty - Worsley Works. Information Stands; Rainhill MRC, Rainhill Railway & Heritage Society, 502 Group, 009 Society, North West Museum of Road Transport.
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    A two day exhibition with layouts in four scales, eight traders, four show you how demonstrations, club shop and refreshment service. Disabled access to all areas of exhibition. There will be a free hourly vintage bus service on Sunday only this year, between the North West Museum of Road Transport, St Helens, and the exhibition venue in Rainhill. Admission to the museum (optional) is not included but can be purchased on the door. Exhibition opening hours 1000 - 1700 (Sat), 1000-1630 (Sun). Admission Adults £5.00 Children £3.00 Family (2+2) £13.00 Venue; Rainhill Village Hall, Weaver Avenue, Rainhill, Merseyside L35 4LU Rainhill Railway Station and 10A bus stops on Liverpool-Rainhill - St Helens route close by. LAYOUTS ATTENDING; Turtle Bay (009), Ulvyard (009), Dunfo;d Road (00 DCC), Bridge Road (00), Tuemyll (N), Outwell Village (00), Kings Potteries (009), Bampton (00), Ethel (0), Faugham Hill Pottery (00), Noware in Particular (N), Lydstone (N), Rothbury (00), Queens Road Depot (00 DCC). TRADERS ATTENDING; CM3 Models, S.M.T.F, World of Motion, PL Models, Leigh Models and Hobbies, GM Transport Books, Powerbond, Rainhill MRC Club Shop.
  10. The wiring expert at Rainhill MRC has come up with a simple fix to solve the ANALOG directional front lighting issue on GT3. TENDER; Locate 4 way plug at front of chassis and remove black wire from position marked 'NF' (We chose to disconnect the plug and carefully push the wire out from the rear of the plug so it could be reconnected if DCC operation was required in the future). Connect a 2.2k resistor to the black wire. Carefully solder a short piece of wire to Pin 7 on the blanking plug. Slide a piece of heat shrink tubing over the resistor before soldering the blanking plug wire to the end of the resistor. Test run the loco which should now show headcode lights only in forward direction and marker lights only in reverse direction. LOCOMOTIVE; Change colour of the marker lights from white to red by either placing a small piece of translucent red sweet wrapper between the LED and lens in the lower half of lighting unit at thr front of the loco or alternatively, paint LED red. As I didn't want the cab lighting feature, I blanked off the cab LED rather that cut the wiring to it. REAR TENDER LIGHTS; These are unafected by the amendments to the loco front lights so I drilled a small hole just ahead of the rear axle just big enough to fit a small slider switch. I cut the red wire to the LED and joined the ends to the switch contact tabs. I can now choose to have the rear lights on when running light engine or off when pulling a train. I hope that these instructions will be of use to those analog GT3 users. Whilst accepting that in all probability, the real GT3 would have used red lens oil lamps rather that the fitted electric lights, I think that this conversion is better than what the model came with.
  11. Thanks Wagonmaster, I feared that might be the case. Appreciate your response to clear that up.
  12. Hi Wagonmaster, I am very interested in your lighting 'fix' as detailed in your post of 2nd April and would appreciate hearing your thoughts on a couple of points. Firstly, do you think that the re-wiring of the front tail lights as described will work in dc/analogue mode? I want to have the head code discs lighting up when running forwards and the lower front tail lights lighting when running in reverse. Secondly, can you please clarify the cutting of the NF black wire close to the plug. I assume that the new extended wire is soldered to the loose end of the wire coming from the loco/tender connector before re-routing as described. This makes the original NF plug connection redundant. Your advice will be most appreciated.
  13. Further to the comments and advice from Wagonmaster, SGp and Barry O, I inserted diodes into the red and white wires at the front end of the loco immediately behind the LED housing unfortunately without any success solving the problem. In fact, they seemed to have no affect on the lights whatsoever. Both the headcode disc and lower directional lights performed as before. I did not put a diode in the black wire as this seemed to be a common return. I am now wondering if the exercise carried out by Wagonmaster on the Tender wiring to solve the problem for DCC operation might also work for DC operation but obviously without the ability to control use of same. Like SGP, I have blanked off the cab and rear (tender) tail lights to stop them showing when hauling a train, but really would like the front directional lights to show red and the headcode lights not illuminate when reversing onto the train. Unfortunately, I only have a basic knowledge of DCC ready / fitted wiring. Any further ideas would be most appreciated.
  14. My GT3 runs in DC/analogue mode and I am asking if anyone has solved the problem of the always illuminated directional lighting, in particular on the loco. I have seen the DCC fix suggested by Wagonmaster (page 78 of this topic) but am looking to sort out the headcode marker lights and the lower set of lights so as they only illuminate when the loco is moving in the appropriate direction. It will be easy enough to chage the colour of the lower lights from the current incorrect white to red. I have been wondering if the introduction of diodes into the relative wiring might solve the problem. Any thoughts or comments would be most appreciated.
  15. Can anyone confirm if GT3 ran with a one man or two man crew. I assume that a two man crew (driver and secondman) was more likely in the early 1960s.
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