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Conditional WTT Section B, 7th October 1974 to 4th May 1975 lists: 8S58 21:52 Electric Carlisle to Mossend, due departure at Beatock 22:55. Mandatory WTT Section B, 7th May 1973 to 5th May 1974 lists: 7S58 Class 37 to Highstreet, due departure at Beatock 15:43. Those cover the possibilities in the ScR WTT's I have, perhaps someone else can shed light on the subject. Regards

I do love seeing new photos of the WCML in the mid 70’s, a class 83 and 7 Mk1 coaches, and no doubt the same again in Motorail vehicles after that, very inspiring. Regards

I’ll have a dig through my Scottish WTTs when I get home from Devon later this week. in the mean time a couple of Class 83’s I stumbled across on Flickr recently. Regards

These are magnificent, probably 74 maybe 75, I don't have my WTT's to hand, but I'd love to figure out what service the 81 is on. 4S58? AC Electrics on mixed fitted/ unfitted goods is my absolute new fetish. Regards

Most “Laptop Chargers” will be of the power electronic type, with DC to DC conversation and PWM to achieve “12 V DC”. The better ones will have capacitors and inductors for smoothing, and be of the constant voltage type, which may not play well with sticking an potentiometer on the end. Even if you go old school and buy an actual transformer, a bridge rectifier, you will still need “built in” electronics. Namely capacitors sized accordingly to smooth the full waveform into something that actually resembles DC. If you’re interested in the challenge, then RS components and the like will sell you a transformer. Otherwise, just buy a cheap gauge master controller or the like.

Been following this thread for a while now, wonderful progress, looking forward to seeing some sparkys running. Regards

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Music to my ears!

Are you guys doing unreburbished versions? Can we expect to see an engineering sample for the Unreburbished versions if your making them? What diameter are the OO wheels, and what diameter are the P4 replacement wheels? Regards

Hopefully just ordered a suitabe model, shall we say, of likely import origin. Gave it a go, have to say was skeptical it might take several minutes work, but honestly came away within only a few scrapes. Tidied up with a knife-blade needle file.

Hi Andy, Something akin to pictured on the right? I guess you'd use it like a scribe, and slowly part the handrail from body? Might be challenge on two fronts, I've only got Wera screwdrivers to hand, and not much to sharpen them with, short of a file. But tip about springing the wire into place will defiantly be investigated! Regards

Afternoon all, Before I embark on an attempt with a scalpel, I wanted to ask what tools/ techniques people use to remove recessed handrails on locomotives, as I have some concerns that the scalpel may not be the best in terms of finish. Regards Matt

My Lords! Now were talking.

Those underframes are going to look good underneath a BG, GUV or Carflat. 😉

Incredible looking dream layout type stuff, in finescale to boot! Regards Matt

I think it'll be easier to source Bachmann inners, than Colin's kit. I regret I let him talk me out of buying 3 complete kits at Scaleforum many many moons ago, perhaps one day I might come across two more kits, and you know. Start building them... Alas Andy, I only completed the 1x complete rake of Bachmann's by paying extorted prices for the inners, complete with having to buy one from the USA, postage made my eyes water. And that was more than 2 years ago.

Yes they are, rung for some P4 wheels on Friday 19th in the afternoon, order received Monday 22nd. However, I never received a reply to an e-mail I sent a few weeks before that, and it took a few days of ringing before I got an answer. Regards

Seems odd to have a shipping notification for an order made yesterday, when others are still awaiting. At least that's what I'm inferring from your post.

Ahh my mistake, I'll get in touch with them, thanks again for the assistance. Regards Matt

The SRS do seem to have some interesting stuff catalogued, mostly relating to the WCML resignaling scheme's prior to the putting the knitting up, I have collected a few of the issued documents 1G, 2G and 3G, but always nice to see some of the planning documents. Alas, the Carlisle PSB train register doesn't appear listed. Managed to procure the below: I'm hoping that I might be able to eventually come across the May 1974 W2, which someone may have saved because of the Royal Train's visit to Preston on the 6th of May 1974, for the Queen to unveil the plaque to mark the completion of the WCML electrification among other interesting events. Such as, 25233 and a saloon being used to transfer the Queen from Preston station to the new Preston Power Box, and the Queen travelling north to Carlisle in the cab of 87018. Regards

Ahh yes, because the Government has never been wrong about anything ever. 🙄

So a direct comparison to AWS can be made, a few accidents have been assigned to the concept of a driver on 'autopilot', but AWS still reduced accidents. And of course not exactly going to require NASA to implement, what with it being simple AND logic between a Boolean for the tipper bed and a comparison output for a speedometer set point. With CAN bus being standard on all vehicles, it doesn't exactly need NASA's budget either.