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Scottish Wagon Works does a small but growing range of Scottish private owner wagon transfers in 7mm and can also provide custom lettering - https://scottishwagonworks.com/transfers

Well there are loads of artists and bands jumping ship and moving to other venues. Take That are the latest. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68940344 Whose idea was it to book major events before it had been fully tested? Some of these gigs cost an awful lot to put on. I would expect the cost of putting on someone like The Eagles is well in the millions.

I like them

Oh p** it’s a work weekend once more and the daft policy of not confirming Sundays off until the Thursday before means impossible to plan for!

Oh now there is a complicated set of questions which I probably shouldn’t answer on my holiday. But here goes… The single most expensive part of models now is the assembly - all don’t by hand. The tankers are date from simple, with ladders, fillers, strapping, open chassis, brakes and vac gear that will all make a very large part count. The chassis are often unique - on many of our wagons we have (with much planning and thought) got multiple wagons using parts we made earlier. This helps us keep costs down. But a completly unique vehicle, with lots of parts is expensive. Looking at the statistics - if a model has a high RRP people will buy only one. Let’s say these come out at around £40 to £45 my suspicion is people will have one or maybe two. Where as at £32 we do see greater sales. This then translates over to having multiple diagrams. People I suspect won’t buy two of each diagram - but instead maybe one. There’s a finite number of sales out there and they then get split between two manufacturers for a broadly similar wagon - not good for either party there. As for knowing what we are all doing. Certain people and certain companies talk to each other - but many don’t so there is no certainty. With the 14xx we were approached and asked if we had started it (because of Titfield and the logic that we would have done it). We had not at the time (but being honest we were about to) and the other party said ‘phew - we have!’ So we left them to it… Hopefully some of that makes sense? Now I shall return to the family and some rollercoasters. 😀

… and even then it’s not guaranteed.

Goodnight all

A selection of vans from Russ Whitwam. John

C to the left a to right...taken on wensledale railway last year...when next in loft will dig out some old printed photos of underframe on mk2s at Carnforth

The Machine Demands A Sacrifice - Colosseum

Good evening everyone Well I had partial success setup the new digibox recorder thingy, it works and I was able to set up recordings and play them back. What I’ve not been able to do is set up the Chromecast element of it. After about 30 minutes of trying to set it up, I gave up and made myself a muggertea, I’ll try again in the next day or so. Once my tea was made, I carried on making the buildings for my micro layout. After dinner Charlie came round and he and I then spent the afternoon in the workshop. He brought a new kit with him to make, whilst I continued working on the industrial loco for my micro layout. Today I completed the brake rigging and I was able to fit and remove the brake shoes as a complete unit. I then fitted the coupling rods and connector rods and found that they foul up when rotated. So, after a bit of head scratching, I decided to dismantle one of joints where the connecting rod meets the cross head. I then gradually reduced the size of the both parts of the joint and then re soldering it up again. It took a couple of try’s, but I eventually got one side done and working, I just need to do the other side now.

Did this thread title always state '4mm scale' or am I imagining things ? T-T

@Pacific231G It would seem that the 'Research Centre' is actually BR's famous facility 'The Grove'. IMDb mentions 'British Rail Centre, Watford' and a general search brings up a thread on railforums.co.uk: John Webb states (after comments that the track etc. don't look quite right): "I can confirm that the bit of railway seen in the "Positive/Negative Man' was a training set-up at The Grove near Watford; one of our members had been there. Even Civil Engineers have to be taught about railway equipment in general when they are working on the railway so they know what is what alongside or crossing the track or whatever they are expected to work on. The signal box was part of the installation by BR, I understand."

Rather than try to find the poor joint, I would suggest making a second, parallel connection to the fiddle yard. Make the connection well past where the trains slow. If that works, then problem solved. The poor joint will still be there somewhere but that doesn't matter.

Zammo! The girl who played his girlfriend turned into a bit of a hottie....

I live in Essex and it a 3.5 hour drive if I wish to go, I shall have to see about making a weekend next year.

Its a slightly larger brake tender than OO… lol

Great stuff. That is indeed an MTK Class 50, the Jidenco one has a see through grilles and a rather, ahem, distinct looking face

One thing I do wish I'd known about DCC - what incredible witchcraft is needed to successfully speed match locos. The only way I've managed it is with identical locos by a manfacturer, fitted with identical decoders with identical CV settings. As for locos from different makers, or fitted with different chips, especially trying to match sound & non-sound locos - that remains utterly beyond me. Which can be quite irritating, modelling American trains. It's not the consisting together, I can do that easy enough - it's getting locos to perform well together - speed matching - that is the witchcraft.

Please find attached a photo or so from today's running session at Shipley club with Clayton as the focus. I have not been for 4 years, or thereabouts. It was good to see Frank, Russ, Andrew and Barry again. Although Frank forgot I had seen him and Russ last year at Dewsbury GN! John

Looking very good. Just a few inaccurate bits, exhaust system going the wrong way from no2 engine, heater control panels on trailer car never fitted.

I just bought one, and can use some help.

Why, as a LNWR man, I bought a Dunalsitair, one might ask. I fancy the Prussian Blue livery, I suppose. I wonder, if there is anyone reading this who has built this kit, and can coach me?

As you're modelling in 2mm scale, I'd expect each of your locomotives to be drawing less than 0.5 Amps. Three locomotives should be well within the capability of the DCC system without needing a booster (which will just provide extra Amps that I don't think you need). The loss of speed is therefore most likely caused by a drop in voltage. The drop in voltage is caused by high resistance, which is either wire with an inadequate cross section, or a poorly soldered / connected joint. I suspect that it's probably the latter. Whilst a multimeter is useful for identifying voltage drops, you've already highlighted that there is a notable drop in speed when entering the fiddle yard, so it's likely that any poor joint is in this area. If you can identify which join the locomotive starts to slow at, then you can probably assume that the wiring is okay on the command station side of that join. You then need to check the wires that connect into the fiddle yard from that point. If the go slow section is quite short, then I'd hazard a guess that it's a dropper issue, but if it goes slow throughout the fiddle yard, then I'd be tempted to suggest it's the bus wire. Is the fiddle yard a separate board, in which case it might be your cross baseboard connector?

It is quite common in Romania, it is one of those things that I've seen loads but never photographed and when I came to look for photos on flickr it was hard to find any. Tends to often be the really really slow local services that call at every Halta going, and also where you are likely to have a punch up with a pensioner over the 'curent'. Cluj to Sighet Bacau to Piatra Neamt.