Kelly

Odd it works here. Nevermind I'll see if I can find another elsewhere.

Also liable to be costly and a stern ticking off from the boys in blue. Better to block access to the driveway with something you have control of movement of.

I'm planning to do something similar (in terms of size) with the EM point kit and flexitrack I bought at the weekend as a test track and learning excercise before progressing on to the bigger layout plans. Look forward to seeing your progress.

Afternoon all. Hope everyone is well? if not, speedy recovery. Feeling somewhat wiped out today, so a lazy rest day I suspect. But tea should revive me enough hopefully to almost function for most of the day. Still suffering with this blasted cold, but it is slowly shifting at least, though the cough is very irritating. Looking forward to tomorrow, when I get to see my other half Richard again (after his current block of nights has finished) and taking Natalie back home after an extended visit, where some research did at least manage to get done despite us both suffering with colds etc.

It is difficult to link to that site due to the sites settings. But does this work?

Sorry, I couldn't link to it properly as was on my phone when I posted the link previously. Try this link.

I think the trouble is one of interpretation. People tend to interpret such things to fit what they want it to be, regardless of which religion it is. I've thankfully never had an issue with EE, but a number of people I know have had hell with them. Soon you'll be rid of them at least, but sadly I feel they're all about as bad as each other really. Nice modelling there Baz and a welcome change of subject given recent events perhaps.

Sadly very common on eBay. The amount eBay and PayPal charge in fees I'm not surprised really sadly. a good 10-20% can be taken purely in eBay/PayPal fees, especially as they use the postage costs as part of the fees calculations too.

I have noticed they've listed a few with warped bodies previously, so they could perhaps have made a copy+paste error...

That does look an improvement on the standard code 75. Until they bring out points, it is a bit pointless (pardon the pun!).

The Q1 model is one of my favourite of theirs. The prototype is a fine beast as well

With Bachmann planning an OO 90 then a 90 would not fall within the criteria Ben stated previously as Bachmann could (and probably will) do one in N. The 92 on the other hand could be a condender as it is doubtful Hornby would do an N one and the Lima/Hornby mouldings in OO are quite old now too.

I remember being in Glasgow when I saw that happened (7/7) and thankfully my father worked from home that day. I did have fun with airport security flying back, as flying up at BHI, I took my boots off (big goth boots with lots of metal) and they went through the scanner. I suggested this at Glasgow and got told to be quiet and go through the scanner, thus setting off the alarms and loads of armed police coming running. They weren't pleased when they realised it'd been better for the boots to have gone through the scanner as I'd suggested... Natalie later told me that she missed the bus on 7/7 by a matter of minutes having decided to walk rather than get a bus at that time.

I recall my father telling of how he was called to the NatWest tower before the bombing occurred, and got held up, when he got there he found the Sun computers he was meant to service buried in the concrete outside from one of the upper floors. Apparently they still all worked after a recasing job.

Morning all. Hope everyone is well. If not then speedy recovery. Myself I'm improved a bit on yesterday, though the lingering cough is proving annoying! Off out in a short while to post an item back (it was described as OO and turned out to be HO).

No real progress on the layout due to ally pally and I'll health sadly. I had hoped to have another go with templot getting the left hand cluster of points changed to a single slip, but have been too ill to give it the concentration it needs. I did however get some items at ally pally that are relevant to the layout. Those being an EM gauge B6 point kit and a length of EM gauge flexible track from C&L Finescale (I also got a length of people code 75 flexible track and the needed glue for the kit). Hopefully over the next few weeks I'll get a chance to give it a try. I at least now have some track for testing of stock. I just need a controller now (I started this having nothing in the way of track or electronics). Think I'll next put a simple test track together when I can get some suitable wood.

I've been looking at arduino or rpi for point/signal/dcc control. Haven't bought anything to try out as yet but already have a spare rpi, though I suspect it's overkill to some extent. Intending to also look at the merg offerings when I get chance (now I'm a member). Of course all this requires a layout, better get started on that I guess lol, though have bought my first em point kit to try as a first step. Need to do final tweaks to the templot plan and then order some boards from Tim horn.

Only photo I've found online that shows the side is at http://plumbloco.smugmug.com/Trains/London-Transport-Steam/ the 16th photo on the page(can't share the photo directly) The angle doesn't look quite right on the image you posted however, looks too sharp.

Night all. Normally would be up ages yet, but yesterday's escapades have left me exhausted and sleepy even after I slept through from about 7pm to 3pm last night. Hopefully I'll manage to get into town tomorrow so I can get some bits sorted and post off an item.

Afternoon all. Hope everyone is well and if not you recovery quickly. Myself I'm recovering from yesterday's trip to Ally Pally, which took a lot out of me physically. Though having the scooter there made it a lot less painful on my back at least compared to previous years, so consequently less painkillers were needed throughout the day. I also still have not kicked this damn cold and have due to the sore throat it has given me almost lost my voice with having to speak louder at the show with the background noise etc. Had a good time there, though with the costs and the energy/phyiscal costs combined it seems more and more like it is not viable for me to go in future. Though that said the car did well with less than £15 of diesel getting there and back again, so was happy with that! Spent a reasonable amount though and came away with some bits from C&L (EM flexitrack, B6 point kit and OO flexitrack (for testing)), Replica (Mk1 bodies, MLV bits etc for the EPB conversions) and a few other bits (bits of useful aluminium sheet from SEF and magazines).

Great trackwork so far Jeremy. Really makes a huge difference to n. Also madness, sheer brilliant madness doing Euston ;-) I remember it vaguely from the time period you're doing when seeing my mum off on trains to Liverpool growing up and later on my travelling to it after I'd moved to the Midlands. I think I'd personally find n too fiddly to deal with, but I suspect I'd have crazy plans about Victoria, London Bridge, Charring Cross or Cannon Street if I dropped down to n. For now I'll stick to em and have followed your track building with interest as I've been using templot too and some of the building side of it is similar regardless of gauge/scale. The area I'm modelling has switched crossings too but don't think I'm going to model that aspect and leave it as a simpler crossing. Look forward to future updates.

I can well imagine it being a shock to some in these days of multiple units with automatic doors. There was a reason behind the need to open window and lean out to open from outside, to prevent accidental opening from within iirc. A number of incidents before they did that with doors coming open prematurely etc. Sleep is proving illusive this evening so am awake early. Will make the journey down to London a bigger pain! Hopefully will grab a few hours before leaving in a few hours or so...

Night all. All set for Ally Pally in the morning, need to be up early to drive down there in good time, etc. This year I've made sure to have SD cards in/with the camera to avoid last year's debarcle of getting all the way there and discovering that I'd forgotten them! I had my phone with me for photos, but not the same.

Thanks. Yes, I'll have to compress it as 2ft+ would dominate the layout a bit too much, not to mention the difficulty of storage. It'll be set back a bit from the layout somehow perhaps though to give it a bit of perspective, whether I've enough room for that I'm not sure as I don't really want to go much beyond 2ft width on the main boards if I can help it (it'll be over 11ft long in its full length as it is). Whilst I'd like to model parts of angerstein wharf, it is a bit outside the scope of what I can realistically fit in. I might do a small bit of it at a later stage as a addon module, but that all depends on whether such a thing proves viable to store etc.

Ah, the standalone diagram was really only to illustrate what I was meaning than anything else. Thanks for those Dave. The pictures of the junction are very useful, especially with the retaining walls and the substation building in the background. Feel free to post any other relevant photos you find, or if you'd prefer to email them drop me an email. Once again, thanks.