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Just make sure that the rail heads line up at your join through packing if necessary.

Technically your contract is with the seller on E-bay, not the manufacturer (ie Hornby), so it's up to the retailer that you purchase from to get any missing parts from Hornby (or give you a refund). If they are a reputable trader, then they will do that for you - if they're selling dodgy stock, then obviously they won't. Caveat emptor is a Latin phrase that translates to "let the buyer beware." It refers to a buyer's responsibility for due diligence before purchase, which means that it is up to you to decide which retailers you consider to be reputable or are willing to take a chance on before you buy. The answer to your question is therefore 'yes'. Obviously if your E-bay seller has shrugged their shoulders and said 'not my problem mate' and you've decided you still want to keep the model, then you need to find an alternative coupling from elsewhere, but sorting out replacements for you isn't technically Hornby's problem. My impression is that Hornby don't really keep many spares, although I'd expect them to have a few for warranty repairs (ie models returned through their official stockists). Obviously if they don't have many spares to cover such repairs and they are not being sold as a spare part, then I can understand the position that Hornby have taken.

No idea about the Accurascale Deltic, but my experience with the Accurascale 37 is similar to your description of the Bachmann version. On the club's analogue layout, the loco moved before the engine sounds started up and it clearly draws more current that most analogue only locomotives. Testing out a double headed 37 (both Accurascale DCC Sound) and I couldn't get the train to move. That said, it's not just the locomotive you need to consider, but what DC controller you're using. You can't use the DCC Sound on analogue if you use feedback controller. We have some of the Gaugemaster versions (the black ones) in the club: they're no use. Of the other handheld controllers we have in the club, the ones that we use with the O Gauge worked best, but I'm not sure who makes them. They were able to get the Class 37 moving quicker than the Gaugemaster version would. I'd agree with others though, don't bother going for DCC Sound if you're committed to analogue.

Whatever looks best with the trains you plan to run. If you scale down platforms on the real railway, you'll get anything between 18" and 24'.

Not really a surprise when trying to compress what is a large station into a small space. That plan is definitely in the category of 'inspired by Salisbury' rather than a model that is faithful to the actual station, but it does show what can be achieved in a relatively small space. If @Peak wants to include more, or improve the authenticity, then more space is required, which comes back to the original question.

That's up to you. If you need 100' to model it to scale and you only have 15' then you need to define the least interesting 85% to cut out.

Me!!!

At least Paddington could be fitted in a smaller space. An eight foot wide baseboard to model everything between Eastbourne Terrace and the canal and it would only need to be 18 foot long to capture everything between Praed Street and Bishop's Bridge Road. Obviously there would need to be a fiddle yard as well, but at least a model of Paddington would be smaller than Salisbury, even if I don't think it would be that interesting to operate and too much of the track would be hidden by the overall roof.

Which of course adds substantially to the cost of building such a large station (and the time taken to build it). Which obviously raises the question - why Salisbury? Unless @Peak is a music mogul with a very large property and a few million in the bank, bits of the prototype will have to be missed out. Defining the appeal of Salisbury would help to determine where the compromises should be made.

It depends on the direction you're looking. 😀 If this were to be an exhibition layout, then given the curve through the station, I'd be tempted to model it with the Cathedral being behind the viewer, the station at the front of the layout and the Traction Motive Depot to the rear. However, if this was to be a permanent 'home' layout constructed around the walls of a barn, then I'd exaggerate the natural curve such that it could be bent round the walls, in which case the operator and viewer would be inside the curve. In that case, the station would be behind the TMD and the Cathedral behind that. As you note, if the cathedral were close to the station, it would be a massive building with the spires reaching to the ceiling of an average room. Thankfully it's far enough away that a bit of forced perspective would permit something smaller to be painted on the backscene. I'm not all that convinced that it's particularly prominent from railway infrastructure anyway. Looking at Google Streetview there always seem to be a building or tree blocking sight of the Cathedral.

Finescale Figures (now no longer trading) produced one, but I have noticed what appears to be some of their former figures in the Scale 3D range. @Skinnylinny painted one of these, which you can see in his layout thread.

Indeed - even ignoring the length required, if you were to model the current Salisbury station with the Traction Motive Depot behind it, then you'd need a six foot wide baseboard and that wouldn't even allow for anything beyond the railway fence. If you want to include the car parking in front of the station building, then the baseboard needs to be widened to seven feet. Good luck stretching over a baseboard that is that wide.

1/76th of the actual size. The obvious question is how much of it do you want to model? If you were to take the A36 Wilton Road as one end of the scenic section and the A36 Churchill Way as the other end, then that seems to be about 2.5 km. In 00, you would therefore need almost 33 metres (108 feet) just for the scenic part of your layout. You'd probably need a 6m (20 foot) fiddle yard at either end. It's obviously doable if you're Pete Waterman and have a crew of Railnuts to help you. But if you're asking such basic questions, I would suggest that you need to curb your ambitions and think about much smaller and more compact locations.

I dare say they could, but it might be more appropriate to ask them directly.

You don't 'fit' sound to a 'chip'. You buy either a sound decoder or a non-sound decoder. The former will generally be ~$60 - $70 more expensive than the latter. If you buy a non-sound decoder now and then want to upgrade to sound, you need to remove the non-sound decoder and replace it with a new sound decoder. It will therefore be more expensive if you adopt an incremental approach. If you ultimately want sound, go for sound from the outset. Motor control is not usually counted as a function (although function only decoders don't have motor control). Similarly, sounds aren't counted as functions when looking at a decoder specification. The sound project will assign various sounds to various F keys, but a two function sound decoder isn't limited to two sounds. The number of functions in the specification is physical functions, such as lights, smoke units, etc. Unsurprisingly, the eight pin interface has eight pins. These should be connections to the track (Red/Black - pins 4 & 8) and connections to the motor (Orange/Grey - pins 1 & 5). Of the other four pins, Blue (pin 7) is a common for all physical functions. The other three wires would be your functions, which are normally, White - Front light (F0) - pin 6, Yellow - Rear light (F0) - pin 2 and Green (F1) - pin 3. Therefore you can't physically get more than three functions on an 8-pin decoder if you are looking for 'plug and play'. However, as has been highlighted, you can get decoders with more functions, it's just that these will come with a 'flying' wire, which you will need to solder to the appropriate thing you want to control, such as a smoke generator. What you do need to make sure of is that the decoder you choose has sufficient power on the functions to control what you want. Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) don't consume much power, but a smoke unit may, in which case if it draws say 250mA, then you need to make sure that the decoder you choose can supply that power to the function wires. Some may be limited to say 100mA, in which case they would be no use for a smoke unit that requires 250mA. So to summarise: Motor and Sounds don't need function wires. Headlights, tail lights, cab lights, firebox flicker, smoke generator, etc will each require a separate function, if you plan to be able to control them separately.

Same here. The rest of the website seems to work - just not the railway pages.

They appear to have a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091651800767 They posted a list of products ad prices last summer.

I seem to recall that it was more than patent infringement: more a case of creating a clone and badging it as their own, including copying bugs in the original decoder.

Accurascale provided an answer to that back on page 32.

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The Edinburgh and Lothians Miniature Railway Club (ELMRC) are hosting a new exhibition in Edinburgh at George Watson's College Colinton Road Edinburgh EH10 5EG Sat 1st June 2024: 10am – 5pm Sun 2nd June 2024: 10am – 5pm Adults (16 years and over) – £8 Children (5 to 15, must be accompanied by an Adult) – £3 Under 5s – Free Family (2 adults, 2 children) – £18 Tickets are available on the door, or can be pre-booked for a discount at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/elmrc. Advance booking will close on Friday 31st May 2024. The following Layouts have been confirmed: Carr Street - Steam era goods depot - O - Renfrewshire MRC United Mills - 1950s/60s Scottish Industrial - P4 - East of Scotland 4mm Group Cartom West - Modern Scotrail Terminus - 00 - Tam Gault Dains Yard - 1970s Scottish Shunting Puzzle - 00 - Dundee MRC Glendevon - 1950s Scottish Branch line - 00 - Edinburgh and Lothians MRC Glenkiln Road - 1930s southern Scottish branch line - 00 - Glasgow and West of Scotland MRC St Cuthbert - 1950s Southwest Scotland - 00 - Thistle Modelmakers Tulloch Bridge - West Highland 2004-12 - 00 - Martin Stewart / Scottish Modellers Balornock Goods - 1970s Glasgow Yard - H0 - Kirkintilloch MRC Eastern Steel & Iron - 1950s/60s North American Industrial - H0 - Stirling & Clackmannanshire District MRC Levenbank - Scottish ECML Post privatisation - N - Glenrothes MRC Nanjai Eki - Modern era Japan - N - Perth MRG Wallacetoun Junction - 1990s Scottish station - N - Dundee MRC The following traders have been confirmed: Bernie Campbell Douglas Blades Franzi's Scenic Dioramas KMS Railtech Lathalmond Models Rainbow Railways The following Societies and Demonstrations have been confirmed: N Gauge Society - Forth and Clyde Area Group Model Electronic Railway Group (MERG) An up to date list of attendees is on the club's exhibition website at https://elmrc.org.uk/elmrc-exhibition/

How easy are they to paint? I note that they are available unpainted (£4.25) or painted (£5.75). https://www.lightrailwaystores.co.uk/products/npp-421?_pos=1&_sid=c512ab260&_ss=r&variant=7040820215874 Also, I note that the models of both the pre- and post-1919 liveries have printed plates that give the build date as 1908. I don't think that is correct for either model. No 127 entered service in 1914 and No 125 entered service in 1921. However, both numbers were previously carried by an earlier G15 (Y6) class tram. Number 125 was built in 1891 and number 127 was built in 1892. This therefore raises the question, when running numbers were reused, were new plates always cast, or were the old plates sometimes reused? The earlier number 127 was withdrawn six months before the new number 127 took its place, but in the case of the former number 125, it was still running when new number 125 entered service, which is why the older G15 was renumbered to 0125 and had new plates cast.

I'm assuming that they will arrive with all of the other RCH 1887 7 plank PO wagons. I understand that these are somewhere on the high seas at the moment.

Although it does depend on the date of the photograph. In the later part of the pre-grouping period that is certainly true, but a bit less so in the period prior to the Great War. That photograph is dated 1925, so that's six years after the Railway Clearing House (RCH) Common User agreement for covered goods wagons, so in essence the Southern Railway could use a Caledonian wagon as though it was one of their own.

Interestingly, I've found a few black and white photographs from around the 1960s, which don't seem to show much more than a hedge along the line the of the Poplar trees in the first two photographs I linked to. That is, whatever is planted there doesn't tower over the railway vans sat in front of them, so perhaps these are in effect and overgrown hedge. Though there are a couple of bigger more mature trees near the entrance to the depot - I just don't know what type they are.