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Issue 79 is now available online at the same place. Enjoy!

Im the editor of Satellite, the free onlime magazine of thr British 1:87 Society. Issue 79 is just out and can be found here: http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf How about writing up what youve been doing for a future issue of the magazine? Contact me directly by email if you wamt. Ken Clark

Satellite 79 is now available to everyone online here: http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf Medmbership is free and details can be found on the back poage/

Issue 78, the Winter 2023/4 issue in now available, free, online here: http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf

Satellite 78, the Winter 2023/4 issue of the free onlime magazine of the British 1:87 Society is avaiable here: http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf Its got a couple of revews of the new Trix Flying Scotsman and details of all the material in our files on British H0 modellimg.

I'm looking for Smith tarpaulin packs for the GNSR, pack TARP 06 in 00. Do you have one or more of these lurking in your spares box? If so I would happily pay any realistic price. Even single sheets. Ken Clark

Issue 77. Autumn 2023 can be accessed by everyone here as of today http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf The back page describes how to get the past 76 issues free also as well as how to join the Society for free.

Number 77 of Satellite, the free online magazine of the British 1:87 Society is available for all to read now here: http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf The next issue number 78 should come out by Xmas. Membership of the Society is free with details of membership and where to find stuff on British H0 can be found on the back page of the magazine. Ken Clark Editor

I'll call a TARDIS at the rank. Of course I mean 2014 Ken

I've been searching for a copy of the Railway Modeller Annual for 2104. I'm told it has an article on pre WW2 modelling in it and as the editor of Satellite the online magazine of the British 1:87 Society, I want to find out more about British H0 modelling in that era and the firm's that supplied for it. If you've got a copy going spare please contact me. It if you can provide me with a scan of the article. . . . . I can be contacted directly at kennclark@btinternet.com

I got mine in Spring and it needed extensive alteration and fettling before it would even move. See the latest Great North Review for details. It had to be rewired, key components moved and weight added. It runs now but still needs weight added and it can't cope with turning. A real pity. The maker seems now to be off grid and unavailable and the last time I checked the website had disappeared

Issue 76 of the free Satellite number 76 of Summer 2023 can now be accessed or printed out here: http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf The back page describes how to get the past 75 issue free also as well as how to join the Society for free. Ken Clark editor

Another issue of Satellite (number 76) can be read here, or even printed out from here: http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf We hope you enjoy it. If you read the back page you will learnm how to access, free, the previous 75 issues as well. Ken Clark Editor

Hopefully we'll see a photo with no extraneous gubbins in the background and with the loco wheels visible, rather than in black shadow, sometime soon. Ken

I received my D40 a good few weeks back. It has needed an inordinate amount of "fettling" and more to get it to work, some of which has been spoken about in the GNSR Review by Des, their modelling guy. It still isn't running very well, due it is believed, because it still too light and needs someone who knows to put lots of lead in at least the tender and over the front bogie. Has a formal review of the loco appeared which gets to grips with all the issues and posits solutions? As a useless bodger only i'd love to find some to take it away and return it running perfectly. Please. But it looks wonderful on my window ledge. Sigh !

As a technofool I don't know how to post photos and as a H0 modeller I don't have OO wheels. Gibson's lists have close-up photos of their wheels. Look there.

Obviously Gibson And I write as someone who has in the past had an inordinate amount of trouble prizing ordered wheels out of them Still worth it in the end though

Fascinating. Perhaps if you posted the query on the British 1:87 Society Forum you might have better hopes of a solution. If it is H0 and you choose to sell it/ give it away that's where to go. I'm editor of Satellite the online mag if the Society so any help I can give, just ask. If you want I'll copy your query to the Forum and see what response you get. Ken Clark Could it be 3mm?

I was told at the Falkirk Show MERG stand that they had members investigating/developing rechargeable battery powered DCC system WIFI controlled but a subsequent email to MERG has, as yet, produced no response

The free Spring 2023 issue of Satellite is now available for all to read here:http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf Previous issues are all available on the Society Files page on our Forum to members. Membership is free and details can be found on the back page of this latest issue.

Satellite 75 the freeonline magazine of the British 1:87 Society for Spring 2023 is now available to all here: http://www.british-ho.com/society/satellite1-87.pdf

I'm the editor of Satellite, the thrice yearly online magazine of the British 1:87 Society . Since I became editor in 2020 with issue 69 I've had a Blast from the Past piece in almost every issue. Number 75 is about to come out and will, as usual, be linked to Rmweb. I was fascinated therefore to find this thread. Is there written material on Stewart Redpath anywhere, on their H0 locomotives, photographs we could reproduce in Satellite, in fact anything we could publish in the magazine? Hitherto we have published what we could find in such as 1940s50s MRN but some comprehensive material on the early days of 3.5mm would be very welcome. I can be contacted directly at kennclark@btinternet.com I live in Aberdeen and am often found in Edinburgh so if PD Hancock's H0 locos can be visited . . . . .

Where? I am completely ignorant, the proverbial (seventy) five year old who only comprehends very simple things but it seems to me that if I had a battery (and decoder?) In each of my locos with Bluetooth orders coming from an App from an Android with the battery rechargeable via perhaps the now redundant wipers on the loco on a section of track especially left powered for this purpose somewhere on the layout, we would have made a major advance. This may be unattractive to some Railway Modellers but objections I've read here all seem to have been of the kind that the onward march of technology can overcome. What really needs to be superceded or overcome to achieve this? Smaller more powerful batteries? Is that all?

Until Hornby or similar come up with rechargeable batteries small enough to locate in small scale locomotives, 00 and similar, controllable via Bluetooth from mobile phones to loco based decoders we are still in the Dark Ages taking power thru the rails. It's time we developed technology for the 21st century, surely

Any update on this?