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  1. Hello all, I'm looking for a number of the Red Panda Lowfit kits if anybody has any sitting around gathering dust. Thank you Gareth
  2. Hello, I'm looking for 7mm narrow gauge (0-16.5) freight wagon kits - slate wagons, flat wagons, open wagons and especially Slimrails kits. Brass, 3d printed, plastic kits - I'm happy to look at what you've got. Thanks Gareth
  3. I see what you mean :S Any compormises available like designing it with a floor in, builders can customise as they want then? Thanks Gareth
  4. I'm going Sunday with the family. Look over for two parents with two small hyperactive kids running round looking for Thomas!
  5. The criteria has changed slightly, I'm now looking for any 0-16.5 wagons that would have run in Wales
  6. Hello, I'm new to narrow gauge, but not to modelling as I'm mostly building P4 models to run on Mostyn by Barrowmore. I'm looking for narrow gauge kits, ideally slate wagons of the Ffestiniog type in 0-16.5 to run on our other layout Johnstown Road. I've found Wrightlines have a Talyllyn slate wagon kit but not sure what else is out there. Thank you Gareth
  7. This one, https://www.flickr.com/photos/15038/10369325155/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/15038/10369354676/
  8. Ian, I'd be interested in a freightliner runner version if you do end up designing one. Still have some of your other kits waiting to be built too! Gareth
  9. A post from one of our members regarding the start/end times of the show: Gareth
  10. Mostyn with the DCC Information System will be at Ally Pally at the end of March 2018
  11. Thats something one of our fellas asked during the show - something we're going to look into. We used an Android TV box so may see if the TV has a browser on natively to do this. Thanks Andy. We hoped it would and it did. It's a shame I cant go to Warley with Mostyn this year
  12. I've edited the original post and added the document showing how the system works and the solution architecture too. To be honest with you I dont know why we store data once it's over 30/60 minutes old, the other thing is the database we use (MongoDb) is very flexible and will handle lots of data so it's not really an issue. We have added a little extra and have time v speed step by loco graph so we can see how the locos were driven over time too. I've not looked at it yet but it'll be interesting to see. The one thing we're not interested in at all is automation, it just doesnt do it for us (as a group) or me either. Yes technically speaking all we are doing is reading off the DCC stream "off the wire", serialising it and then chucking it into a message queue. It's the electronics I cant do but the coding I can!
  13. So my background is IT, a software engineer / network engineer / devops / technical architect / solution architect of 10+ years and I've always been intrigued with the DCC system that our club layouts use and what could be picked up "off the wire". Using a NCE DCC Analyser (now unfortunately discontinued) with a Serial port on, I managed to be able to do just that, seeing the DCC Id, Speed Step and Direction of a loco moving was pretty cool. We started off storing this data in a database and querying the movement data, coupled (no pun intended) with a seperate database with train information in, we combine both datasets when we query the movement data to give the following output on a screen for the public to see. See below. We're able to "see" a loco appear on the TV around 5 seconds once it's Speed Step being greater than 1. We were able to handle, single direction and dual direction trains with separate data eg DMU on the Up and Down with different headcodes and train information. It's first outing was at the Great Electric Train Show at Gaydon as part of the Mostyn layout in early October this year, having been kept under wraps for a few weeks. It's first outing went well, we had a memory leak on the Saturday which was fixed pretty quickly and due to the amount of data it was storing (everything) we decided to ignore anything where the Speed Step was at 0 for the time being. Over a 2 day exhibition, we we're storing 70k+ movement records where 7k were where the Speed Step > 0. I have a document covering the entire system, which I can grab and publish here if anybody is interested. It's a work in progress but anybody interested in knowing how it's been built or anything, just get in touch. If you saw it working on Mostyn at the GETS, I'd love to know what you thought. We had plenty of people talk and ask questions about it over the weekend. Edit - Attached Solution architecture document. Thanks Gareth DCCTrainInfoSystem_v0.1.pdf
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