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  1. The email I've had from Rails today welcoming me to their mailing list would seem to confirm that they have taken the Hattons customer database. Andi
  2. Bear in mind that a crossover to scale may be 5ft long whereas if made from Peco points will be around 2ft long Andi
  3. Building a huge layout doesn’t have to be the sole domain of music moguls. Yes I work in the same industry but have nowhere near that kind of income but I’m still building an insane layout, a scale model of Ipswich. I live in a modest rented terraced house (albeit with a reasonably large garage) and now have three large (!) layouts and three small ones. Ipswich is built with no compression at all, the only major alteration is to straighten it slightly so that it all fits on a 4ft width straight set of boards. As someone said above, this does entail hand building the points to get them correct. It all comes down to choices, I live alone (edit: that's actually not true, I share the space with three gorgeous felines!), I don’t drink very often, I have no children, and my house is pretty much a workshop! Andi
  4. I’ve only ever had problems when using the Trix/Gaugemaster brushes where the pick ups have been less than perfect in the first place. On locos with really dirty wheels then a slight wiggle backwards and forwards will usually make contact and a hand on the loco helps to keep the contact until the wheels have made a couple of rotations. Andi
  5. The first law of superglue is that the item you are attempting to glue will always stick to your finger before it sticks to the surface you are trying to attach it to.

    1. ian

      ian

      "the item you are attempting to glue will always stick to your finger before it sticks instead of sticking to the surface you are trying to attach it to."

      Fixed it for you.

  6. If someone tries to sue me for copying their model of Ipswich I'd tell them where to go as I'm copying the GER, the LNER and BR, not anyone else's model of it. Andi
  7. I think the big acquisition was revealed in this morning's Hattons email, the Hattons email database has now passed to Rails Andi
  8. DEMU ran a Minories competition a few years back. Andi
  9. I hope that if someone else is building a model of Ipswich they will be willing to share their research. Andi
  10. I'm glad that Ipswich is all Mark3 and headspans so reasonably easy to scratchbuild. Ravensclyffe is Mk1 and portals, fortunately I've got just about everything I need for that layout with the winding down of N-brass making the etched portals no longer available. Hopefully someone will bring out a new range of Mk1 to take over from Nick's work, I am not convinced that laser cut or 3d printed will be strong enough for tensioned wire systems. I have no use for the new GWML type equipment but it's good that it may be becoming available to make modelling OLE of different styles possible, I wouldn't want to try to scratch build the GWML stuff! As for the Peco portals, will we ever see them? Andi
  11. Looking at Google maps satellite view there is a crossover from 3 to 4 (as we'd know them) and then from 4 to 5 and onwards around North Kent East Junction. the big crossover from 3 to 6 at Spa Road no longer exists. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4862825,-0.0459426,251m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu Andi
  12. When I heard of this it was that they were going to be producing the heavy type stuff used on the GW main line. Andi
  13. Which services stop at St John’s now? It used to be the Hayes trains in the later 90s but before that it had been the Bexleyheaths. Andi
  14. Ask Lord Bullock of Abbotswood @Phil Bullock Andi
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