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I'm another one who tried to go this show, but had to give up because of the lack of parking. I arrived on Sunday morning at around 1100 and there was no parking space available on any of the surrounding local roads, even going quite a way from the college site. Obviously the on site car parks were chockablock. I cruised around for a good 29 minutes before giving up completely.

The Class 91 and IC225 sets are longer lasting than the Deltics, which only saw 20 years active service.

I rarely have to ask a question in the DCC forum section and when I have one, it's usually been asked or covered already. I've learnt or discovered much by looking first or using the search function. I can usually go through the Help section and find what I'm looking for and I don't fancy the idea of having to wade through twice as much content to look for things.

Hi JST, An accessory bus and track bus are both Power buses. They are both produced from the Power/Track output of the booster in your main system (the Elite in this case) and there is no difference other than what they are used for. Therefore any accessory decoder that requires "track power" can run from an accessory bus.

It's no good reopening the HS2 to HS1 link discussion again. That ship has sailed. HS2 is being built without such a link and it would now be very, very difficult to retrospectively put one in without massive disruption to HS2 and would almost certainly incurs costs that could never, ever be recuperated or justified.

The train arrives at Paddington from South Ruislip at 1126 and departs for High Wycombe at 1135. http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/PAD/2018/10/12/0600-2000?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt&toc=CH

Relatively meaning almost a quarter of a century ago. Well, more than 21 years ago to be precise.

No, I think there have been longer ones....from the same source.

A cut down version of Windows 10 would probably allow me to use it for some model railway applications. I've read about people getting 10 to run by disabling many of the OS background functions and deleting various add-ons. In almost all successful cases, they say their old netbooks run faster than ever. Clearly one needs to know exactly what they're doing here. That counts me out. The light Linux option wouldn't allow me to use a couple of apps I have in mind, plus fiddling with that is beyond me. XP boots up fine, but once it's connected to the network, it's a complete pain. Continual dropping of connection, lots of warning notices, problems with certificates blah blah... The IE browser is so old hardly any web sites work properly, if at all. I can't even establish a link to update it, but even then the latest browser it could support is also past its sell by date. As for hobby software, I need a more recent or current version of the OS, plus the ability to use updates. Maybe I need one of those OS on a stick jobs. Run the whole netbook off a USB thumb drive based OS. I'm clueless about any of this. If it's too difficult, I might as well junk the machine. A real shame as it was one of the better build quality examples of the netbook species and is in very good nick.

Battery appears to be fine. I will check eBay again, but the market for these is almost non-existent.

I've no intention of continuing with XP.

One for the techies. I'm in the process of clearing out a load of old stuff. One item is my son's old Sony Vaio netbook, that hasn't been used for about 8 years. It runs a basic version of Windows XP. The processor is an Intel Atom N280. Very basic spec. The computer is in very good condition and boots up OK. However, XP isn't supported anymore and more importantly the IE browser is so old, it's useless and very few websites work with it. To boot it's slow and is having difficulty working on my home network. I had assumed that the poor hardware spec. meant that it wouldn't be possible to load Windows 8 or 10 on to it. Basically, it's old junk and only fit for scrap. However, I've read a few articles and forums on the internet and see that some people have breathed new life into these old relics and have got them running again, both on various Linux distros and even on Windows 10. The thing is, I'm completely lost when it comes to this level of IT and don't know if it's worth keeping this old netbook and attempting such a refresh; or is it best just to junk it. I will just add that we have two iMacs and a couple of iPads and have no real need for a Windows machine. I just wondered if this old netbook might be of use for a model railway application, such as running Anyrail, Decoder Pro, or for some basic automation function. Opinions and suggestions would be most welcome. Cheers.

Once the local opponents get into a mindset against a proposal, no amount of reasoning and logic will sway them. It's as if it becomes a deep seated belief, like a gut feeling, that is hard to break away from, even if reasoning starts to bring them round towards changing their minds. At Steventon, very few local people are able to view the bridge from anywhere other than by crossing it, but worries about aesthetics is one of the points of objection.

DCC is an old 1980's and early 90's technology, but suitable successor technology has been around for more than a decade or so. A next generation solution wouldn't require batteries onboard and could remove much of the problem areas involving signal and power through the rails. Despite what the proponents claim, onboard battery power would be a total faff for most people and is not necessary to overcome most of the problems that battery power is supposed to solve.

Caused by a fire alarm going off somewhere in the control tower, or associated buildings. It was widely reported in the press. ATC have well rehearsed procedures to be used in preparing for a potential evacuation and for an actual evacuation, which includes the handling and dispersing of live air traffic. There is an emergency control tower facility at Heathrow ( it's a hi-tech virtual tower these days), but it takes several minutes to get this up and running.