RobAllen

I guess you mean Stoke Courtenay?

My kids gave me that look when I told them that proper sport stops for lunch and afternoon tea.

I visited yesterday and was incredibly impressed by the presentation of Shwt. In addition to being well lit, it is also quite a deep layout, with plenty of space front to back which really gives a sense of the place. Makes me wish I had an extra foot of depth for Holcombe! It was also quite popular! Many many thanks to @Johndc120 too for explaining how Shwt uses WiThrottle and JMRI to allow routes to be set from the phone. I very much appreciated being able to look behind the scenes and have a walkthrough of the JMRI set up, particularly as I imagine exhibiting is already a busy time. It was enlightening and I'm looking forward to doing similar on Holcombe when I get to that stage. Thanks!

I visited yesterday and it was fantastic to see Templecombe Lower! Very very nicely done. I took a few photos the with phone as I enjoyed watching the start of the daily sequence: I always have a soft spot for a 2P A Standard 4 on shed. Ivatt 2MT and another 2P! The pilot is used on all trains from Templecombe Upper back to down to the junction. There was a lot of operational complexity at Templecombe and it's captured nicely here. I also very much appreciated the slides telling us what was happening. Very engaging for those of us watching.

I visited yesterday and enjoyed watching Grantham. Incredibly well done layout. Thanks for everyone's efforts in building, transporting and operating it for our enjoyment. I took a video & a few photos. Video definitely isn't my medium, but all my photos of the A4s were blurry! The A3 was waiting its next turn and so much easier to photograph. Operators hard at work. I very much appreciated the schedule cards informing us what was going on. I saw this at a few layouts and found it very engaging.

Currently planning to attend on Saturday.

I'm back from a week or so in the US for work. This is now in the diary and I'm more hopeful that I won't miss it! Thanks all for the photos. It looked like it was an amazing event this year.

The best thing about this hobby is that we attend to it at our own pace.

I'll take any excuse to show it off again! The Mogul looks really good in lined LMS black. It feels quite rare to see LMS liveried locos these days as they all seem to come out with a British Railways logo on them. (The Black 5 at the NYMR being the exception that proves the rule.)

I'm actually very happy with the photo I took too. Not often you see the Stove-R out either.

My local line and 1369 looks great! I popped down on Thursday to get a photo of 13268 at the head of the LMS coaches. but I won't pollute the thread with a non-GWR loco :)

The DCC solution I chose is DCC-EX. I didn't want to build it all from scratch, so purchased a complete system from Chesterfield Models. This included a box with a Motor Shield and an Arduino running DCC-EX to connect to the track along with a separate box containing a Raspberry Pi running JMRI as set up by Steve Todd. With the power supplier as well, I decided to put it all in a wooden box to keep it all safe and together. The iPhone is an old one that I had lying around. It runs WiThrottle. The system creates its own WiFi network so the phone automatically connects and is ready to as soon as I turn it on which is nice. I run JMRI by VNC from my computer to the Pi. It all works nicely and even provides a separate programming track output in addition to the main track. Quite pleased with the holes that I drilled. Turns out that using a rule and pencil first helps!

I’ve always got time for a 7F. 13806 looks good.

I intended to do some wiring today, but I don't have the right bits, so I have ordered them. Instead, I decided to cross the next baseboard join. There's only two for this one. Firstly the pretty straight line to the industry: and then the curve… I bought some templates from WHWW and used the 638mm one: and of course am now waiting for the glue to dry!

I'm hoping to attend on Saturday.