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  1. CVs 267 and 354 See pages 45 and 46 of this manual which covers the MX 645R. http://www.zimo.at/web2010/documents/MX-KleineDecoder_E.pdf John K
  2. Please can Andy Y confirm that the show has been rebooked at Alexandra palace for August 22/23 2020? Thanks John K
  3. The Events Team and the Management Committee are sorry to announce that the Gauge O Guild’s Summer Show scheduled for June 6th 2020 in Doncaster has been cancelled because of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak. All traders (many of whom are not members of RM web or of the Guild Forum) will be notified by email tomorrow. John K
  4. Spirit of Swindon will not be attending because we have some operators who are at high risk if they contract Covid-19. John K
  5. I have an idea Why don’t we all speak about things we understand. I have seldom read such Ill-informed posts. Please follow the advice given by the Chief Medical Officer. If the advice changes then change your actions. John K
  6. May I thank you for a well written, clear and unsensationialised report of the incident. John K
  7. Hi Ken Modelling with one arm might bring you down to the speed that the rest of us work at. May your recovery be swift and uncomplicated. John K
  8. I fear you may have misunderstood. If you take your own router which is password protected and not connected to the internet, it matters not a jot how many thousands of people are using phones around you. I have twice operated at Warley successfully with JMRI and smartphones with no interference fro any other systems. Digitrax duplex is a waste of space in a busy environment. John K
  9. We suffered the same problem with Digitrax Duplex throttles on 82G at Peterborough a while back. Digitrax seems particularly susceptible to these issues. Suggest you look at connecting to JMRI and using smartphone throttles connected to your own dedicated router. Best John K
  10. Hattons already have them for sale on eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heljan-H7-A3-001-Class-A3-4-6-2-2750-Papyrus-in-LNER-Grass-green-with-unstream/233393942029?hash=item36575cee0d:g:pTAAAOSws65dxEK~ John K
  11. I am afraid that there is a bit of misinformation being circulated here. All Guild members have recently been circulated with information about Guild Events and other matters. I note that Sir Douglas has correctly put some of that in his thread. Any information not contained in the summary that went to members, or that is not available to members on the Guild website, is extremely likely to be incorrect. John K
  12. Your old notebook is probably quite capable of running a Linux operating system and then you can escape the clutches of Microsoft. JMRI runs brilliantly on Linux mint. https://m.wikihow.com/Install-Linux John K
  13. I'm sure you probably have hard copy but the documentation can be found on this page: https://www.signatrak.co.uk/product-support/docs/library/DAC_DOCS/ Best, John K
  14. I have four of these driving 30 tortoise machines. They are easy to set up and I have not touched them since. https://www.signatrak.co.uk/products/layout-automation-and-accessory-control/dac20-accessory-decoder If you want to save lots of money, and you have the necessary skill, you could use use Merg units John K
  15. John K

    55H 9f

    Hi Adam It is just personal choice, and i have been around the 7mm world for a while. I just think the Lee Marsh stuff looks great and, I have never heard a single complaint about how it runs. Best John
  16. John K

    55H 9f

    And if I were wanting to spend that sort of money it would be the Lee Marsh one that I'd buy. John K
  17. The Gauge O Guild's two-day show/convention is only a couple of weeks away on 31Aug/1st Sept. The Show Guide is available on the guild website here: https://www.gauge0guild.com/Guildex Telford Guide 2019.pdf See you there, John K
  18. Hi Electron Can I ask about your initial premise. The modern O gauge world no longer uses heavy open frame motors, and does not run at 24V. Little maxon or canon motors driving high efficiency gearboxes are the order of the day. Are you running very old models? Except for a few, heavy drawing, twin motored diesels most O gauge DCC-ers, of which there are now very many, use standard OO/HO rated decoders. I have been running DCC in O gauge since the turn of the millennium. John K
  19. Simple mistaken identity I think. RFS mentions LV102 several times John K
  20. Absolutely agree - Two buses every time John K
  21. I was at GCR all day yesterday with a club layout, and I have spoken to our team who are there today. As a major victim of last month's destructive event I would strongly urge against making unsubstantiated comments about details of the burglary at GCR. I don't think we should be commenting about security arrangements with hearsay information. John K
  22. Thanks very much to everybody who came to support the show in its new venue. Special thanks to the super layouts, supportive traders, interesting society stands, and wonderful visitors. John K
  23. There are no daytime closures scheduled There are some 9pm to 6am diversions John K
  24. For those go you coming by rail to Kettering, this is the bus that will be running the show to station shuttle service. John K
  25. This time next week it will all be over. Make sure you don’t miss out on the 2019 East Anglian Model Railway Exhibition on 8th& 9thJune in Kettering. NN15 6PB Here are five more layout previews: Bewdley is by Graham Heald & Chris Manners in OO gauge. Bewdley is based on the real location at the Severn Valley Heritage Line. To the credit of SVR, very little has changed since 1862 when it opened, to the BR Western Region days and its closure in 1969. The layout depicts the station from 1958 to 1969, with three platforms providing loops to which trains could pass on the single line branches to Shrewsbury, Kidderminster, Worcester, Tenbury Wells and Hartlebury. Cameo Callaton by Mick and Yvonne Simpson in 2mm Finescale Mick says: “This little cameo was started with exhibition attendance very much in mind since while touring with my last exhibition layout, I was always being asked how easy it was to start in 2mm finescale. Enter the cameo layout which is usually quite small, very portable, doesn’t cost very much and enables the builder to exercise every discipline that building of a larger project might involve but,in generally a fraction of the time. This little project is based loosely on a prototype which existed close to the real Callerton, north of Newcastle upon Tyne, the story of which lies outside the scope of this little description”. Copper Wort by Peter Goss in OO gauge This is a working demonstration of a layout build in progress. The early 1900s represents the high point of the brewing industry in Burton on Trent, extremely busy with the bigger breweries establishing their potential with the Midland Railway network with the smaller breweries muscling in between them. To add substance to what is essentially a little-known small brewery company I have given it a few of its own 0-4-0 locomotives to support the Midland Railway locomotives running through. The layout includes a track plan based on the much larger Worthington’s arrangement to accommodate the numerous Midland Railway and Great Northern open wagons and outside framed MR vans. Dock Green by Colin and Margaret French in O gauge. This layout is a fictional O Gauge, 7mm/foot minimum space with no points. It’s based on an imaginary Industrial locomotive depot somewhere in a docklands area of the United Kingdom. The layout consists of three parallel tracks two of which are the loco depot the third being a hidden siding. To save space, there are no turnouts on the layout hence the title. A short traverser is used in the fiddle yard to enable locos to change tracks. The period depicted is the early 1950s. Watch out for PC Dixon who is continuing with his enquiries. Photograph by Paul Bason Frackingham by The Norfolk Joint Railway in 7mm Finescale. Frackingham was a sleepy Norfolk hamlet until the oil rush of the 1920s hit the district. Oil shale was being quarried and processed at Setch which prompted the English Oilfields Company to open an exploratory pit at Frackingham. This proved to be no more successful than the workings at Setch but the crushing house and retort house were constructed with a conveyor to link the two. Oil from Norfolk shale proved to have too high a sulphur content for most purposes unlike the better-quality oil shales from Scotland but production continued until the 1960s on a small scale for cosmetics manufacture. West Norfolk has a long history of minerals extraction and in 2017 trainloads of high quality industrial sand were still conveyed from the Sibelco site at Middleton.
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