daltonparva

The 1P was the other way round.

304 feet, 101.33 yards. 1 mile = 1760yards.

Are you going to record your own screams?

Who's that? Somebody say something?

Try Hattons, I think they took Olivia's surplus.

On the recent Hornby programme on Yesterday channel one of their engineers was experimenting with steam generation on a sound fitted loco, and Jenny Kirk has shown a couple of examples of TRS's work on this, so I think this will be the next big thing.

I think Olivia's and Howes still re-blow 3.5's, they will still have Duchess's, but like you I have a Lot of Duchess's and Princess's original Hornby sounds, and they're good enough for me.

If you want to test the chassis as is, straighten a small staple out and see if the end will push into the plug, if it will bend the staple in half and push it into holes 1 and 2, repeat with another staple linking holes 3 & 4. Make sure they don't touch each other. Your loco should now run. If you're happy with this and want to do the job as you envisaged, remove the sticky tape between the wheels in your picture, the 2 wires there are from the motor, cut them there and pull the ends connected to the plug out of the hole. The 2 wires left still connected to the plug are from the wheels, cut them so you can shove them up through the hole and connect one to each motor wire. Swap them over if it runs backwards.

Nope, can't remember whether it was standard Bachmann issue, or a retailers commission. I might have changed the tender as most Bachmann models came with the small tender, but by late 30s nearly all had larger ones (swapped with jubilees). I also got pigged off with Bachmann's shelving of the new models, so changed the chassis’ on all my 8 red ones.

If you are using DCC the easiest way is to use a double pole polarity reverser, about £25 - £30, 2 wires in from the track, 2 wires out to the deck rails, and it does the job for you. I have used 2 different makes, they are brill, but I forget the makers names. A DCC shop will advise you.

The black plastic bit that the pins go into will slide up and down, and can be removed if required to get at the pins which are soldered onto the board. The plastic bit on the decoder doesn't look as if it is pushed all the way down to the board, which will lengthen the pins.

Generally, but with odd exceptions, both Hornby and Bachmann wire the 4 pin plugs with the outer pins to the wheels, inner pins to the motor. The wheels usually correspond with the same side pin, ie plug the plug into the tender socket then left wheels is left pin.

Apart from waiting for 2-3 days to see the money in my account, I've made more from the 80% of fees offer I received than I did from my previous £1 + PayPal offers. Thumbs up so far from me. (The only downside, I liked to have my PayPal account as a separate "modelling account", rather than everything appearing together through my bank).

I've had a £3 offer a few times before. 2 weeks ago I had the 80% offer under the new "managed payments" system, which generally works out better than the £1 + paypal fees. The £3 offer with no paypal fees works out better than £1 + paypal if you are selling items valued £60 upwards, and cheaper than the 80% offer for items £100 upwards.

Hallelujah for the red Compound at last. Price made me cough though. Will have to make do with 1, not the 3 I wanted. Edit. Just noticed this is only for class 24's. If Mr Mod can magic this away, please feel free.

Which wagon are you looking for?

Been waiting for the prices to drop to buy an LMS black one, bought one on Sunday night from Model Railways Direct. Price was £104.96 + £3.99 postage, 13 available, now only 2 left.

Rails and Hornby having parted ways must mean a substantial hit to their income, so it is in their interest to big up their second largest source.

Also try a reset, cv8 to value 8.

For people who are unaware of the current state of space transport development, the amazing fact is not how many rockets that SpaceX have launched, but how many they have landed for re-use (73). With luck SN9 should launch in the next few days as well.

Any updates?

Lewis is in newspapers, news programmes, talk shows, etc, in many countries. Tell me of another driver with that sort of exposure, let alone a "newbie".

Dear Mr O'Fludham. I too am looking forward to this, as I have been since the first lot which came out some 10 years ago. I just hope the tooling won't have rusted up or disintegrated by the time they get round to doing it, or that I haven't shuffled off this mortal coil. No doubt the price will have to rise enough to cover the extra transport costs due to continental drift by the time Bachmann get their finger out. Yours. Lord Feltham Feltham Hall Feltham-on-the-Hill.