After attending the York Model Railway Show, came back with a Hornby Railroad Class 37 (in Yellow) and a NEC Powercad (PCab) DCC controller. I got it from the Digitrains stand and am very happy with it. I had previously visited their shop in Lincoln to try out the various controllers and to ask beginners questions and the guys from the shop were very helpful and impartial whilst I was doing my research.

I really like the Powercab and find it very intuitive to use. The speed control buttons & wheel are just in the right position. Plus with a bit of modification to the key buttons (addition of some coloured stickers) my 4 year old son has cracked how to use it to control our two DCC locos.

I am so glad that I have now taken the plunge in to DCC, as it is so much fun and flexible; just having two locos on a simple layout running independent of each other is just great!

Now I need to work out what decoders to get to convert all my old Lima stock (31s and 37s) and to add to my DCC ready locos.