LNERandBR

Sounds like everyone has had an excellent time at the Boston Exhibition this weekend. Thank you to all those who visited, we hope you enjoyed yourselves. Next years dates are below:

We've had a brilliant first day at the Boston Exhibition. We hope everyone who came enjoyed themselves. We do it all again from 10am tomorrow 😊

Friday night setup has been successful the majority of the layouts are setup with a couple to arrive tomorrow morning. We're not the biggest show on the calendar but we're looking forward to a fun two days 😁

It's not called silly season because it's sensible 🤣

On the 37's activation of the Flange Squeal is still on a function button. Turn the function on then the loco will squeal on the curves as dictated by the sensor. Turn it off and there is no squealing. Therefore, you can pick and choose if you want it to activate or not :)

I had a brilliant day at Statfold today, arrived at just after 10 and didn't leave until after the show itself closed at 4pm. A spectacular line up of layouts which were all very well presented. Simply put, one of the best exhibitions I have visited. I do hope the 009 Society have done well out of the Public Attendance of the event. I know it is a special event for the 50th but it would be very very nice if this could become an annual event. To all those involved in organising a great big THANK YOU for all your hard work. 😁

Yeah, it's sponsorship. The Teams are paid for their Drivers to be seen walking around with massively expensive watches around their wrists. I remember when I was young seeing Kimi Raikkonen being given a watch at the end of every race when he was with Mclaren. I thought he must be very vaign that he must have it straight away. It was only much later that I realised it would be due to the sponsorship agreements, he'd be being paid to put it on as soon as he jumps out the car! 😅

The Annual Boston Model Railway Exhibition takes place at Stickney Village Hall on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of September: There are 8 layouts Attending Tytton Hall Yard by the Boston MRS Amberdale by the Market Deeping MRS: Wipton by the Market Deeping MRS: Emsworth by Ben Adlington: Horncastle by Simon Stewart: Bantry by the Sleaford MRS Kenston by Ian Hayward WWII era set on the South Coast of England. Kirkby on Sea by James Spence A LMS terminus station in the 1930's We have 3 Trade Stands: Elaine's Trains Maxey Models & Ballast Eddie King with his Charity 3D Printing Batterdale Scenics and Electronics will be attending with a demonstration stand. There will also be a Tombola and a Raffle will be drawn on the Sunday Afternoon. http://bostonmrs.50webs.org/Exhibitions.html

So maybe RB sould stop talking to the media as though Perez is on equal footing as their no1 driver. We all believe that Perez is a No2 driver from the way we see him being treated. However at no point have RB stated he is. Personally, I like Perez and I am glad he still has a seat in F1 after being replaced at Racing Point/Aston. However, the last two years of RB domination have been boring when compared to Mercs period. At least Merc let their drivers fight and by the time they'd had enough of that other teams had caught up enough that there was a chance of someone else winning. You just have to look at the most consecutive wins record Verstappen broke at the weekend. Not one that Lewis gained during Mercs golden patch, one held by Vettel another driver for RB.

There was over 2 seconds between the cars, they had enough time to bring them in and change the tyres on both. Merc have done it in the past many times. Granted, it's a higher risk. Get an issue with the first car and the second is ends up stood waiting. However, RB are pit stop pros and should be more than capable of doing double stops. However, I cannot think of any time that they have done it.

Yeah, it's clear as day why they pitted Verstappen first even though Perez had track position. They wanted their golden boy to get the advantage. They had more than enough time to double stop but they left Perez out for an extra lap on the wrong tyres. Verstappen wouldn't have been impeded as they had enough time to get Perez out of the way.

New tyres don't spacifically mean you will get fastest lap. You still have to put the lap together and not make a mistake or be too complacent. Wasn't it a Ferrari who screwed that up recently?

No as I enjoy Spa, it's a proper racetrack and not a silly pop up street circuit that looks like all the others and has no character. It's one of the best tracks on the calendar and I was very disappointed when the race two years ago got called off.

Apparently Mr Bean has a gearbox penalty. Heard it on my local radio station's news bulletin but not found it online yet. Always enjoy Spa, its a wonderful track. I hope the forcasted weather doesn't cause stoppages.

I believe that once the lights on the safety car go out the leader takes over setting the pace. Therefore, the leader can let the safety car pull away and then return to racing speed at anytime they like.

I niticed that on the corners where track limits were an issue the curbs were wider then the cars. Inviting drivers to go wider. Therefore, why not mandate that no curb should be wider then a cars width. Then it encourages drivers to keep within track limits. However, I personally think grass on the outside of the track is a better option. That stops all the issues.

That won't be Accurascale's fault, it will be down to your email provider. As someone who works in IT support, my recommendation would be to upload to somewhere like Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive or similar then share it via a link.

Had a wonderful time at DEMU today. Got there just after the doors opened and didn't leave until after 1pm. Some excellent modelling on display and I managed to not spend lots of money. Very well done to the organisers, I hope the Showcase continues to grow from strength to strength.

Had a wonderful time playing with operating my 37051 at the club last night. Very impressed with the flange squeal functionality. The Drive Lock feature was also very nice. Allowing me to set a speed then play with the engine thrash. Oddly, I couldn't find any mention of running in amungst the info sheets. However, I gave it 30mins in each direction to be sure. I've had no issues with parts coming off of my model. Just need to work out if I'm fitting ploughs when I fit the buffer beam detail and do some weathering then it will be perfect. Part of me thinks I ought to fit crew tho. I assume everyone will get emails about leaving reviews.

From what I understand, small speaker and stay alive are both fitted to DCC Ready versions. It's the Accurathrash speaker and Sound Decoder that need adding to get the same as the DCC Sound version.

Nope, all good things come to those who are patient and wait 😁

Completely forgot about them! 😬 Really looking forwards to running mine on Thursday at the Club where there's more space to try it all out. Something that's grown on me is the AWS test when you change direction. Just need to remember to make the Cab Door sounds 😅

Got home last night and immediately unboxed my 37051. Very happy with it so far but I only have around 3ft of track to try it on. Even with that, it sounds very impressive. I very much liked the 'heavy' and 'light' options and how they change the way the loco drives. The brake and drive hold functions are also very good. Very much looking forwards to taking it up to the club on Thursday where it will be able to streach it's wheels and get run in.

Had the email to say it's arrived. Looking forward to getting home from work.

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