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Thanks Mike

thank you

Thanks to all who have responded. So I assume intermediate / sorting yards would have their own locos to get trains ready, to be added to trains coming in & then continuing on & of course to sort out stock being left at that sorting yard & I again assume that sorting yard would have been advise in advance how many items of rolling stock is being left there for them to sort?

Thanks Mike. my era is 1940-1960s I guess & while shunting at small stations to be done by the train loco, I was not sure if larger stations needed to know how many wagons were being dropped off & handled by local yard loco. My second question was based on assumptions that, that large station would have a local yard crew & a loco to organize wagons ready to be attached incoming trains that continue on .

Thank you - a lot in that thread but nothing I could read, relates to my question.

In the good old days of freight being moved by rail, were large intermediate stations made aware of how many wagons are going to be dropped off an incoming train well before it arrived? And would that large station have a train of wagons already assembled to be added onto the incoming train which was going onto the next station?

Could use one of these http://www.heathcote-electronics.co.uk/point_indicator.html#POINT-INDICATOR-STANDARD

Thank you , food for thought - I may have to enclose/add to the normal overpass that has steps.

Thanks, I was aware of that for smaller stations bit not sure on big stations ( & of course, on my layout the two platforms are different lengths - the second one came after some track changes)

In the 1940's to say 1970's. how did passengers using wheelchairs, get from one platform to another as normally stairs are not viable by ones self - even not perfect having someone control the wheelchair & elevators probably weren't installed in that period of time ? And nowadays passengers use Gophers as well. TIA

Possibly an old monitor/ printer cable may do the trick

Thank you - just read that topic. I will late June try the tacky varnish idea, let it dry, then see if water removes the backing paper OK without upsetting the transfer.

OK so if using water based varnish, place the painted transfer on the wagon, wait until it is completely dry, then wet the paper to slide it off the transfer?

Thank you. the big problem is here in Australia, it is scarcer than rocking horse manure ! Even Amazon Australia can't supply it & Postage cost from USA & UK costs about 3 times the price of the bottle.

I have acquired a few 0 scale kits that use the self-adhesive type Parkside Dundas transfers but it seems the self-adhesive has dried out. Question I have, is it possible to make them sticky again ?