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Andy Keane

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  1. So brake (end out), all third, composite (first in middle), composite (first in middle), all third, brake (end out), see my video about five posts above. (and if you buy the brake thirds AND run digital AND fit decoders you can make the end lights on the brake thirds reflect the direction of travel!)
  2. My Dapol Large Prairie hauls (and propels) all six loaded with 50 dart cast figures with no slip or difficulty at all:
  3. But a set without the full thirds, just having the brake thirds and composites would look very nice on a layout which did not have full length platforms.
  4. With a dozen cast people in, one of my coaches weighs in at 186g so a bit over a kilo for the full rake. Satisfyingly substantial.
  5. Mine roll very easily so I have not found this an issue, but I don't have any slopes to deal with. And this is lucky as with 50 odd cast figures in they are getting heavier!
  6. One thing my rake of toplights has required is around sixty painted people to go in them. I have used Dart castings as they are not very visible and the castings are on the smaller side. But painting them all has taken a while as I am a bit ham-fisted! Here are a few of them waiting to go in:
  7. Do we know when Loriot P wagons first appeared in service? I have a very old fashioned farm tractor I want to load onto something of this kind.
  8. This is the pleasingly complicated run of wires, rodding and detectors around the Helston starters and siding ground signals. I have also added (non-working) levers and pulleys to the base of the Dapol signal since they look rather bare as supplied. These are held on with micro magnets so the signals can be removed after the signal wire runs have been added.
  9. I have been reading the Journal of the Helston railway Soc and it notes that before the E140 B sets were used on the branch there were the low roof E40 B sets (a diagram for these is on page 126 of Russell). I will have to see if I can get a pair of kits for these rather charming coaches such as these Does anyone know how hard they are to build? Andy
  10. Indeed we do and no doubt that was the excuse.
  11. This was one for us - we live 150 yards from the Abbey and the parcel was wedged into the door to the bell tower - luckily the Church Warden saw this dumping going on and retrieved the parcel worth £400! They claimed it was our front door as if we lived in a 900 year old Abbey!
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