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I didn't realise they were still installing miniature yellows as late as that

Oh wow didn't realise that. Take it they are on conventional signals?

I'd also forgotten they had the perspex fly shield

I'm sure they will sell really well , I'm also waiting for some

Why did they ban them? I know there were issues with them momentarily energising the train stop grid when changing from yellow to green but would think this predated this by several years Or was it the brief flash of red when changing, something you anticipated when working with them or at least proper drivers did . I was told about that on my traction trainee course

I assume when using the semaphore light the spectacle should be changed to green from blue? There are some at Manea which shine blue as the light is white and not yellowish

LED signals are awful in poor conditions they don't seem to penetrate fog like a filament bulb and when you get near them they blind you and you loose your night vision I wouldn't want to live near one they are nearly as bright as streetlights

Have you got any plans to use any at Dereham?

I was hoping you may have got some of them. Were they the last?

Good man Richard

I remember the Nottingham ones I think there may have been a couple of searchlight distants on the Scarborough line but they have gone too, so I think the last may have gone sadly

Don't think they have been there for a long time. I think this was a similar but simpler system to the Mirfield speed signalling system?

Older ground position lights used to be switched from night to day manually by the signalman

I know what you mean but the real things were quite interesting, modern things especially those horrible flat things look like they should be on roadworks or used to celebrate Xmas with. Hate everything about them and are far too bright obviously a new standard drawn up by some idiots that have never been a cab in darkness

With the recent ressignalling of Clacton, were these the last searchlights on the network? I know the miniature yellow subsidiary signal that controlled entrance to the depot was certainly the last of its kind hasn't even been in the rule book for years

I can't understand at all why there was no control air pipe at all, The white circle MU system seems to be a hybrid of yellow diamond and blue square with the same controls as yellow diamond on the 79xxx cars but similar jumpers to blue square. Both these systems and other systems had a control air pipe so can't see any logic of white circle not having one

At the moment it isn't actually running, once its up and running which hopefully shouldn't be to long im hoping to do some on train videos using a miniature camera

Thats the way I used to do it , much easier

Aye but if you have no air you can't move the sliding dog for it to centre in the final drive. On other sets its possible to supply a defective car from another power car or a loco

As I've said before I wonder how you isolate the final drives on a failed power car with no air?

I don't like retailers that take order for items they don't have In stock when the website says they do , and ones that if you order more than they have then they hold the rest of the order until they receive more stock to save on postage To be fair most online retailers i have used during lockdown have been fine

Is that one with the 'pop' off nose ends? Maybe worth seeing if anyone wants to swap

I left them a message and sent an email and to their credit got a full refund but no contact or explanation but over two weeks. I won't be using them again either

I managed to make some LNER discs rotate but I glued the disc to a cut down ratio LMS plastic one to act as a boss ,then glued the 0.7mm rod to it. Fiddly but it worked

I've rang them and left a message again and said if they don't contact me in 24hrs I will ring PayPal Their postage wasn't cheap and if the items aren't in stock they should have told me . I've left them a message a week ago and no response, I certainly won't use them again