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A quick update; Some of the point in the fiddle weren't switching completely over, so we lifted them to put new ones in, but instead took the opportunity to remove them completely and run them to a dead end. It increases capacity in the fiddle yard, and makes operations more interesting. So I ran a few trains for a bit, finally got around to running my ATW 150 and Northern 144 for the first time, even though I bought them ages ago. Also picked up 3 SSAs the other day for a great price, so took to running them with a couple of HSAs I had sandwiched in my short HEA rake. They're behind 33201 here, which is unlikely to have been a prototypical formation, but even using 33201 on my layout at all isn't very prototypical, seeing as it was withdrawn before privatisation set in. I picked it and 33204 in Mainline Triple Grey up for £39 each from Hattons years ago, but they don't exactly fit in with the rest of my stock. I never seem to see retailers doing any ridiculous deals like that any more. This hobby seems to have gotten so expensive over the past few years.

Cheers, I had a look at the wiring and all seemed ok, we disconnected a few of the lights that flash in the fiddle when a point is switched (which is a completely different section), and suddenly everything was running fine. So who knows what it was, really.

So I appear to be back on this forum, after a long break from the hobby... A lot of my stock has been sat in boxes, and the boards from my last, very incomplete layout were sat in my Grandad's loft. During Lockdown he decided to give them a little extension and lay some more track which he'd bought off ebay, waiting for me to return to the hobby, and here I am. Cornbrook Street is a modern image loft layout, currently 16'x4'3" with a 5'x2' spur. It's primarily set in the North West of England, n the suburbs of Greater Manchester, with stock mostly able to be grouped into 3 operating time zones; 1998-2003, 2007-2010 and 2017-2020. I've been putting together this spreadsheet of my stock to work out what I can run with what, but it's pretty incomplete. If anyone has any extra information, I'd love to be able to add it. Control is DCC, via a Bachmann Dynamis Ultima, with all of it's horrible wireless connection issues. We've made some further changes since then, and so here's a few pictures to show where we're up to currently; But we're having an electrical issue again. A few days ago, we had trains running in both directions, but one of the wires for the DCC bus came loose. Having resoldered it to the track, now whenever a train crosses the point at either A or B on the outside loop, it simply sits in this section as if it has no power. However, it must have power because the tail lights pulse on and off. Any suggestions as to what could be causing it? I'm also having a bunch of different stock problems, but we'll get into that another time...