[Coombe Junction set in the future: Layout Idea Ponderings...]

now this is starting to remind me of something I looked at a couple of days ago!

[A bit of a fume...]

I have had the opposite problems to you. I have had about 25 farish locos and 12 Dapol ones and so far, apart from my first EWS 66 from the first batch (66008) which sounds like a bag of spanners (my own fault i didnt oil it), i have had no problems with any of my Dapol stock and had to send back 6 of my farish ones (2 pre Bachmann and 4 post), and they tried to charge me for each one even though they were recent releases only a couple of months btween Bachmann shipping to customers to me shipping them back.

 

it just shows it really is just the luck of the draw as to wether you get a good one or a bad one, touch wood i will be still be lucky as i have just got my 153's and not got them out yet.