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I have 4 servos on one output using Megapoints hardware, and they work fine. I think I’ve got 23 servos attached to one of their 12-output boards - crossovers and what not.

Impressive. Like the junction.

Very cool!

More than that no one has character limits on texts anymore. Back 15 years ago when you had 140 characters or whatever it was for a text, or it would cost you another 12p, you had to shorten words. It takes longer to write m8 than mate now, and is utterly pointless. See loads of people do it on Facebook still, mainly grown adults on the model railway groups I frequent. It makes me seethe with rage.

1) Max ran Lewis off the track having gone down his inside, Lewis didn't not yield he ran out of road, if Max requires the other car to leave the road to avoid a collision one could say either he was being ambitious and didn't have space, or he was unnecessarily crowding the other car 2) there was an investigation, no further action warranted There does seem to be a blinkered view of Max's abilities from his home nation (or their representative on here anyway!) which hasn't yet been borne out in results. He's had a few good ones for sure, but he still makes a lot of mistakes, more than any of the other top drivers. I don't see the same with Hamilton and Britons at all actually. He seems to come under a fair bit of flack. Usually entirely justified.

Well in ours the only time you use an apostrophe for a plural is letters: “dot the i’s and cross the t’s” and for single numbers “all the 3’s” (although I’d write “threes”).

You’re right, most would. I can’t see Lewis being among them if Vettel’s there (in fact i’d bet significantly against it), and not sure about Ricciardo.

Can't see Ricciardo wanting to either, if Vettel's there it's very much a second seat. They'll want someone submissive without huge aspirations, or someone for whom it's a big leap, more likely they take someone from Haas or a reserve I'd have thought.

FFA/FGA I assume. There are Dapol FEAs and IKAs available, as well as FIAs from Farish, KFAs coming from Revolution and KTAs from C-Rail, but they are all more recent. I'm not so sure we'll see them shrunk myself. They're very expensive in OO, and we don't tend to see prices being much cheaper. Bachmann have been quite upfront in saying that there are wagons where the cost to do them justice in N is prohibitive (thinking IPA car carrier pairs for a start), so although long rakes would be easier to do in N I'm not sure there'll be the market.

USB webcam connected to a laptop? Ali Express is full of them! I've got a couple for that purpose but have yet to use them in anger. The picture looked reasonable though. Not entirely sure I'd believe the "full HD" spec!

There's a fair degree of arrogance required to get to the top in just about anything, business, sport, music, whatever. What often seems to happen is that once there you mellow slightly, Max certainly seems to be a little hot-headed still. It was a shame he took himself out of contention yesterday, would've been good to see some more great overtaking from him. I took my 15 month old son on a bus on Saturday - he loves them. The patronage were entirely over 70, and among the rudest people it's even been my displeasure to endure. Sure they're the first to moan about "the youth of today" as well!

Great race that. The whole issue with Kimi’s pitstop wasn’t good, broken leg for the poor mechanic. I imagine whoever cleared the lights feels awful.

Wait for eBay to do £1 final selling fee offers, they’re usually every 3-4 weeks. You’ll never get cheaper. IMO it’s still the best option for selling. Conventional auction houses are extortionate in comparison. I bought something recently with 28% on the hammer price, plus £24 postage as the minimum charge. The seller paid 18% commission.

How can you ignore the first train driving signalling expert humanitarian saviour of the Spanish economy?!

That’s how I operate my (n gauge) Peco scissor crossings. Not wholly prototypical, but easier!

I dip in here periodically because the scale of what you’re doing is very impressive and I know the prototype. However your condescension and abject refusal to ever acknowledge that anyone else may be right on anything and your ongoing arrogance is nothing short of infuriating!

What a curious comment given multiple examples! I remember the Woking branch stocking Hornby, and excitedly checking that aisle every time I went in 20ish years ago. Shame about Hornby, ironically, as an N Gauge modeller, I’ve recently bought my first Hornby products in years, in the form of a couple of TTS decoders to play with. It would be a shame if they vanished, if only for the heritage!

That’s for an interior for me, here is the buffet. Expensive though, particularly in WSF, you’d have to really want one!

It depends what we’re talking about surely, if you’re wanting to do proper fully autonomous trains on the entire network you’d need to resignal everything for a start. If we’re just talking about a bit of ATO on a wider basis then the requirements are far simpler of course. Remote control is something wholly different again.

No idea how old you are, but I agree, unlikely to be in the next 50 years, precisely because you couldn’t just roll it out to the existing network. You’d need massive infrastructure upgrades, and in order for it to work to its full potential you’d have to have no interactions with ‘human controlled’ stock, which would be open to the same failings as currently.

Totally agree (I’ve said as much), look at driverless cars - they’ve now spent years, and millions of miles just fine tuning them, and that’s always going to be the bulk of the work. Still doable, though. The principal barriers are cost and perception. The fact people say “well they can’t totally stop accidents so it’s pointless” epitomises it.

Fifth time now. Not suggesting you could roll out DLR type trains to the national network. Could a computer detect the difference between and a small animal and one far away...? Of course they bloody could. Far better than the human eye, which is very poor at judging distance. Next.

As above, you’re basically saying we shouldn’t prevent 99% of accidents because 1% will still occur...? It’s a curious stance.

Not sure about that. How many people have been run over by driverless cars? One. It was headline news because it’s so uncommon. The driver in the car, with eyes, didn’t see the pedestrian either. Indeed it rather looks like the pedestrian just walked in front of the car. How many people are killed by cars driven by people? A lot. People seem to really lack vision, for the forth time now I’m not saying it’ll happen tomorrow or in 10 years. But look at the technology on self driving cars, and the obstacle detection algorithms they have, then stick on every train on a given network. Ta dah! I’ve never said that no human will ever be needed again anywhere on the network, that’s daft knee jerk hyperbole mainly from people who ultimately risk being deposed by automation. People are highly fallible and are the weak point of virtually any system.

Agreed, again, that's about the easiest example to conceive a solution where a computer would be better. What if there's something/one in the 6 foot who is concealed until the front of the train goes past? Eyes won't see it, computer could, and alert other trains immediately.