North Devonian

Had an email from Royal Mail to say my three Boosters from Derails are being delivered tomorrow . Just hope they get delivered before the Missus gets back from shopping.

This was the last run on the Sunday evening for the first Steam on the Met in 1989 . At the time it was thought that Steam on the Met was a one off and just in case it didn’t happen again they made sure they went out style ! No gentle treatment here .

I got notification today that Tulyar is on the way so will receive by Friday hopefully, it took four emails of chasing to get the notification.

Did DPS let you know it had been dispatched.

Has anyone actually heard or received anything from DPS . I ordered and paid in full for 55015 Tulyar in February this year , apart from the order confirmation I had heard nothing. I sent three emails this week one to the link on the confirmation order , another to DPS sales and another to sales link on the contact us on the DPS website . I have heard nothing from any of the emails and I now getting a little concerned. Even an out of office reply would have been nice .

Well they arrived at 13.15 and I wasn’t even in the house so she answered the door and took the box in . I was in the back garden about to go back in the house when the back door opens and out she comes with a big box and she wasn’t smiling ! She wanted to know what was in it , I said maybe I had won a competition but she was wasn’t having any of it . I then said it must be a loco I had had on order but the supplier hadn’t told me it was coming (there were two in the box) She then demanded I open the box in front of her , I looked at my watch and convinced she that mustn’t be late and she needed to go , so off she went . Phew ! I quickly opened the box and got the two boxes out frequently looking out the shed door in case she had decided to come back but I was ok. Out came the two locos D9004 and D9007 Pinza the first Deltic I ever saw 60 years ago roaring out of Barnet tunnel towards New Southgate and Friern Barnet station as it was called then . Even though my layout is DC I thought I read on here that the DCC sound version would work on DC but slightly slower so I went ahead and ordered D9004 DC and Pinza DCC sound . On putting Pinza on my test track on came the sound and she pulled away beautifully, I was really pleased . So off I went to the main layout , on came the lights and then she starting moving very slowly , I turned the power on full on my Gaugemaster controller no increase in speed not much more than crawl . I emailed Accurascale and they informed me that a 16 volt controller was needed not the 12v Gaugemaster I was using, so that was an expensive mistake on my part as I should done more research. I took the blanking plate from D9004 and put it in Pinza and she runs well . I asked Accurascale if they could send a blanking plate for D9004 they said should have been one Pinza’s box , there wasn’t so my plea has passed to warranty for them to decide if will send me one , I do hope so it would be nice to get them both running with Tulyar when that comes from DPS hopefully next . Will the wife be in for that delivery.

Received a text from DHL stating delivery will between 13.43 and 14.43 , the wife is due to go out at 13.45 . This could be stressfully close !

Mine arrived this morning , it is the preserved version . Looks great , out of the box a little noisy but after running in this afternoon it is now quiet and a lovely runner . Worth waiting for . Oh and remembered to pull the plug out of the Gaugemaster track cleaner !

Mine arrived about an hour ago , ran fine on my test track but when I put it on the layout which is third radius it came to standstill on each curve . Removed the body and it ran just fine so the body is fouling the bogies. The instructions say will run comfortably on third radius, the Rails website makes no mention. My track is Peco code 100 streamline . Tried on Peco setrack 3rd radius, too tight .