Dan Griffin

hello Just a general question as per topic title. is Traction magazine sustainable as it is at the moment? After buying every issue since the very early days and have a complete back run, i have now ceased purchasing Traction magazine, and the worrying thing is, working in the rail industry, several of my colleagues who were regular readers have also ceased buying it. talking amongst ourselves we believe the problems are:- 1, cost. £6.50 per issue. Of course, I understand about rising costs but then in comparison, Trackside magazine is £5 and has 108 pages and is published monthly, MLI published Bi-monthly, 100 pages and costs £7.99. Traction is £6.50, 67 pages (10 pages of which are modelling) and is bi-monthly. Cost comparison for content makes Traction an expensive purchase. 2, content. Traction has always produced good content and reproduced some cracking pictures over the years but take issue 271. There is an article on South Wales, but the pictures are produced in a small format which is less than a 6" by 4" print. this doesn't do the pictures, or the photographer, justice. We also understand that content from the era covered in Traction is finite, so would it be better, and more beneficial, if Traction went quarterly? 4 issues a year, bigger issues (100 page +) and drop the modelling content (which is a reheat from BRM anyway) for better reproduction of people's pictures? This would ensure Traction survives the current climate of rising costs and could be better and hark back to the early days of the magazine when the content was brilliant. just a few thoughts.

I ordered some items last year, boxing day i think, as there was an offer of a free book. Half of the transfers eventually arrived but the book never did, neither did the missing orders. Excuse after excuse but now i have had no contact for over 6 months. I won’t ever use him again. it makes me wonder if it maybe worth pursuing Jim through Peco as modelmaster supply transfers for their parkside kits. if nothing else it may alert Peco to potential problems with supply in the future.

I have done another review of some great tools from Lidl and Aldi. Plus you have the chance to win some bits.

Trash to Track 15. Tri-Ang princess loco.

Episode 14 of Trash to Track now live.

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can anyone advise is this the start of Mazak Rot? found in the chassis block of a Bachmann american Erie Lackawanna F unit

A subscribers loco in this new episode of Trash to Track A tender drive Hornby Duchess

Episode 12 of Trash to track now live. 👍🏻

New episode now live, featuring the Hornby 4p tank loco

Every one of GBRf’s 100 strong class 66 fleet is featured in my new video. Every current special livery is included. All filmed around the Peterborough area it also shows how non standard GBRf’s ‘standard’ blue and orange colour scheme is! so if you like 66’s and Modern railfreight, and have an hour to spare!, sit back and enjoy.

Hi anyone have a publication schedule for future ‘Diesel Dawn’ issues? the ones out are very good and i’d like to know what ones may appear in the future as i may have some images to submit. thanks

Good Moring i have recently obtained a Hornby 'class 29' D6110 in all over BR green, yellow ends and centre headcode box. is this livery correct? most of the images i see of these loco's they seem to have a light green band along the top of the bodysides. There is a picture on the Hattons Website of one that appears to be all over green but i am not convinced that's just the angle the picture is taken at. In the book 'the heyday of Scottish diesels' on page 63 there is a photo which appears all over green too, but again its a head on shot so is not 100% clear. this image from Wikipedia seems to be all over green too. does anyone have the definitive answer? Did some D61XX diesels carry all over green?

I have done another bargain tools video finds from Aldi and Lidl. Some good tools available cheaply from these places

Cool down and watch episode 10 of Trash to Track, now live.

Mine arrived today. I’ve had a quick look through volume 8. fantastic. I can’t fault these books. They are simply superb. The best set of books i have ever owned. well done to all involved.

Was it the Finale set or encore you had delivered? I’ve still to hear anything and their website has not been updated which is unusual.

A new episode of Trash to Track is now live, this one features a Dapol Western.

Many thanks for this i changed the washer and spring positions and it was running around curves with no issues at all. appreciate the help. Dan

Yes sorry, the bogie is free to move side to side.

Morning I have recently refurbished a Mainline Jubilee Loco and DCC Fitted it. The loco runs lovely and no issues fitting a chip to the split chassis. however I have noticed that on curves, the front bogie lifts off the rails to one side. it does not derail. the curves on the layout are 4th on the outer and 3rd on the inner. This is necessary. the bogie seems to be free to rotate when i hold the loco off the track and the wheels turn freely so am at a loss as to why it does this. i have attached the below screenshot from my YouTube video and you can clearly see the wheels are in the air. I will also attach a link to the video so you can see the problem as the loco runs. if you do not want to watch the whole restoration skip to 28mins and 5 seconds to see the mainline jubilee running, and the bogie lifting.

Special Jubilee edition of Trash to Track now uploaded and live.

This Jim person who runs Modelmasters must be on a wind up? Advising when to ring on a mobile number. Between 13:30 and 15:00. Two days now and its constantly on voicemail, which is full. Did anyone else place an order around boxing day with the promise of a free book? I got the order but the note said ‘book to follow’. tried to contact them as i have not received anything yet and cannot raise the bloke.

I am after a pantograph for a Hornby class 71 (E5001) if any one can help please? mine is broken and am looking for a replacement as Hornby do not make that part as a spare. fingers crossed someone has converted one into a 74!?