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    Through Limestone Hills - Monsal and Millers Dale

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    10 hours ago, apbolton said:

    Although not part of the original plan, we decided that there was room for a small quarry behind Chee Tor, that baseboard was added last year and the track set out, but then left. I decided it was time to get on with it, so over the last week for an hour or so each night I have pinned down the track and wired it up.

    Now all I need to do is build a small control panel and it will be fully  operational and ready for some scenic work.

     

    Is this part a layout within itself, Paul?

    Aston On Clun. A forgotten Great Western outpost.

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    1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

    A certain famous brand available at pretty much any petrol station managed to put me off pasties for life. Also sausage rolls. Bleh.

     

    Only ever had one of those, the inside didn't seem cooked, veg was as hard as iron. The cafe/post office at Hornby we frequent on a regular basis does a nice Lancashire version.

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    What does everyone use to clean wheels of locos, wagons, coaching stock and track?

    in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips

    Posted · Edited by Rowsley17D

    Another thing I found with graphite sticks is that it can build up on top of isolating rail joiners and bridge the electrical gap. Just this morning I had a short on a turnout and it turned out the graphite had bridged the isolation gap, not helped by warm weather expanding the rails and closing the gap to where the graphite took over and caused the short.

     

    I use WD40 Contact Cleaner now.

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    Chuffnell Regis

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    2 hours ago, Graham T said:

    I've now got the Pressfix transfers onto one side of the Siphon.  The other will have to wait a little while, as there are only so many of those tiny little individual numbers that I can face tackling in one session...  Once both sides are done I'll give it a coat of matt varnish before I do any weathering, as the chocolate brown paint doesn't seem to be adhering all that well; taking the carrier paper off from the transfers scraped it here and there.

     

    Strange what you say about paint adhering. The last 2 locos I painted had 2 coats of etch primer, a couple of surface prep - one I surfaced prepped first, the other had etch first, then a couple of coats of matt. Even handling the locos fetches the paint off.

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    Carlisle, Garsdale and Hest Bank in EM gauge

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    2 hours ago, Michael Edge said:

    However, as I hinted at earlier, there's never as much room as you want - 1m wider on the building and we would have had the whole of Bog Junction and the goods lines in the right place - a bit more and we could have included Canal shed.......

     

    It ever was thus.

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