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  1. Here is my version. More anon. @
  2. ] What on earth what are you looking at? I know of no such document which lists a great many items as sold out. The current price list and illustrated catalogue are kept very much up to date as to what the Society's offerings are. From time to time items run out and there may be a wait for them to be resupplied; Covid had an impact. The shop can give you more information.
  3. The Society's Intermediate range should work with TT 120 standards. Driving wheel sizes available are; 12; 13.5; 14; 15; 15.75; 16.5; 17; 18; 19.5 MM. The Fine range being thinner might not work with TT standards but does also offer 9mm and 10.5mm sizes, as well as 19/20mm sizes. In comparison, in TT a 4'6" wheel works out at 11.43mm and a 5' wheel works out at 12.7mm
  4. So would I. With the qualification not these thinner wheels might not work well with current TT track standards.
  5. What would be useful would be Gibson or somebody producing locomotive driving wheels for example 4'6 or 5'; t would open up the scale to people doing their own thing.
  6. 6 standard Hornby 166m straights arrived in the New Year... ...followed by 2 points and very useful rerailer last week. Assembled and tested with a Piko Taurus; Looks good and the Taurus just sails through that pointwork. More track arrived today :-)
  7. Depends on what the 631mm refers to.Now reckon the cause lies where others have indicated.
  8. Hornby's 631mm point is equivalent to a 39 inch point in 00; think that's ok for S curves.
  9. Better than my first attempt. Now see what the problem is.
  10. Anyrail. The point is quoted as 631mm radiuis, the #6 curve as 640mm. Would account for the difference I'm seeing. See Top point and curve to its left don't join. EDIT Now see lower point on the right is causing the problem.
  11. I'm playing around with a Minories type layout using Hornby TT set track. Couple of questions. Firstly, I thought the point of Minories was to avoid sharp S type curves. However looking at the original Minories plan there is such a curve when an incoming train is trying to get to the top platform road. I'm not sure that in TT this matters too much as you can afford to use reasonably generous curves if you're using the set track. Secondly I can't find a curve to perfectly match a point. The nearest I can get is #6 radius 15 degree curve which is just a bit too long. Maybe there ought to be a #5 curve to do this. Any thoughts? Nigel
  12. Playtime. Turnouts on their way.
  13. Could only find the Jinty explicitly mentioned in RM 5/57.
  14. https://www.railtec-models.com/catalog.php?type=5&gauge=TT They will also consider new requests.
  15. Nobody knows the intentions of other manufacturers, but I'd be surprised if Dapol and Bacchmann aren't giving it serious thought. The pie is large enough.
  16. Seem to remember someone intending to do OO9 W&L stlock, possibly Bachmann..Vale of Rheidol hasn't yet been done.
  17. Hornby parcel delivered 🙂 Track?
  18. Following on from my earlier comment, you're not allowing for camera distortions. The camera is pointing directly down on somewhere left of loco centre line, which means you are seeing the stuff on the right partly sideways on. There may be problems, but this pic doesn't show them.
  19. With Hornby couplings, if you drive straight over a raised uncoupling ramp, does uncoupling occur, or do you have to stop then back up?
  20. Your camera is left of centre-line so looking partly sideways at the valve gear on the right.
  21. And Merry Christmas from me as well. People like me wondered how the conflict bettween scale track and wide wheels would be resolved. Think Hornby answered that. The models are well made and convinciing, even if they have tweaked the odd dimension. 2023 - the year of TT-120
  22. NCB

    TT:120 Scotsman

    I can't stand the Hornby 00 wheel treads; too shiny which makes them stand out. The TT ones look to me much more discreet to me and should be OK in practise.
  23. Dublo had a quite neat 1/4 straight isolating track. Seems an obvious requirement to me.
  24. Question. If you want the end of a track to be isolated, eg as at the buffer ends in Minories, how would you do it using Hornby set track? Incidently,I reckon Minories works just as well as a main line terminus with suburban traffic and goods being located somewhere else. Could even be inter regional. So, A3s and Duchesses would be quite at home there. CJF postulated a reverse loop for the fíddle yard, and that would work well with such a scheme; you could house storage for the locomotives within the loop. It shouldn't take up too much space.
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