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I do hope all of those Ford Anglias have been retro fitted with central door locking.

Hornby have a system. See below. If you cannot programme Arduinos yourself then, unless you find a generous patron who can, Hornby could be your best bet. Even if you could programme them (or find someone who can) the total cost, reliability and ongoing support issues* could mount up. However, if you want to tinker, don't mind being frustrated at times, want to do some coding and this is an area of the hobby you love then go for it. * Always assuming Hornby are committed long term to their system.

Already tried this in 1830^. It didn't end well. If only they'd had central door locking Huskisson may have seen the day out... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_of_the_Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway ^ OK no photo opportunities, Fox Talbot's invention was about 10 years later.

Silhouette looks like a MR 3F or 4F to me however I'll bow to more learned visitors to this site. If you can find the distance between the visible uprights on the bridge handrails or between the cross members then you may be able to estimate the major dimensions to a reasonable degree. e.g. chimney to dome or smoke box to back of tender, if you are that determined! :-)

The above link works just as well without the tell tale stuff. I must have been there near the beginning of AVR as I distinctly remember going on a Father Christmas special in the mid 70's and getting a colouring book :-) Bit of an interesting journey for the AVR to where they are now.

If you're still looking I believe there are some tables of loadings for lots of different locos that operated on the S&D in the book "The Somerset & Dorset from the Footplate" by Peter Smith. I think the later version is a combined edition of 2 earlier books.

Isn't a Mk1 with no CDL 'those standards'? Stewards yes, but they can't be everywhere. PS I'm not pro or anti anyone.

My flabber was ghasted too, the source was not quoted^, however I don't think they were making the number up - perhaps a typo? It wasn't the April issue either. ^The item mentioned an investigation by the rail inspectorate following public concern, also an independent report from Knight Wendling.

FWIW: From 1991, 'Rail' issue 148, page 6: "... 112 passengers have been killed over the last 5 years when they fell out of train doors." The high number surprised me, but some real numbers from an era when passengers were presumably more used to manual doors.

Clip of earlier helpful reply. Could these models also be ones that failed QC and go out the back door to be sold rather than in the bin? If so you are guaranteed a lemon if foolish enough to buy direct from China.

Was that on the poop deck?

I don't know how Bachmann do it but it could be done by having the 2 LEDs in inverse parallel. Current going one way lights up one LED current going the other way lights up the other LED. Two protection resistors may be needed, one in each 'arm', value of each based on the different forward voltage, current drawn and brightness wanted from each LED.

Agree with above. Resistor dividers won't work very well with a motor load, I found this out in my early adventures in electronics... If using the 12V controller you could add a series resistor. If the motor draws up to 0.3A at 3V then a 30 Ohm 3W resistor between the 12V supply and motor should do the trick. The resistor could be between the controller and track rather than in the stock if that works for you.

I remember watching that episode a year or so ago. IIRC a platform poster, best forgotten, was fortunately fuzzed out when broadcast at that time.

In addition to 2 runaways shown there was no guard on the train when the murder happened and the fireman got on and off the moving loco and then walked alongside the moving loco in the tunnel :-( We might chuckle at these 'errors' but sadly those scenes (whilst superficially amusing and part of entertainment) don't do much for the image of heretage railways operation to the wider public. At least the signal looked to be off in the 2nd run away :-)