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Had an email yesterday, the chips I ordered last weekend were on their way, arrived first thing this morning so excellent service again from Digitrains.

Just fitted the decoder to a 108, managed to let a short loose and it made an awful noise. Chip is now responseless - not even reading and I may have smelt burning, just having it on track and the chip is red hot to touch Have I burnt it out?

You could argue similar for Southern and LMS - it's just the good old GWR that has had locos churned out (mainly by one company!!). The two important classes 14xx and 45xx haven't so far had the DCC treatment, no big tanks but you're spoilt for choice on Panniers. Diesels get decent coverage in N though.

You're really not helping him choose an indoor room here @Nearholmer

Is it true that people who do remarshal their trains will have to perform brake tests before moving said trains

But even you're not sure. However, unless there is a proper safety concern I cannot see TPE giving up on the MK5s unless they believe they now have too much stock on their hands and are looking to save money (under pressure from paymaster HM Treasury).

I got my 31 with the sound fitted, but my Dapol 50, Farish 40 both have Digitrains ActiveDrive decoders and I am waiting on 4 new zimo sound decoders for my DMUs, again Digitrains ActiveDrives. In the home environment the sound is perfectly pleasant, and not disturbing others in the house so everybody is happy. Given that before Christmas I was firmly a DC modeller and now I've sold all my non DCC ready locos apart from an 08, I think I am a convert.

I'd use the car mate, pooping outside is frowned upon.

You've not got your polarities crossed have you - so one way on one side of the join and the opposite on the other - loco would stop on the join but work either side and you wouldn't see if you tested either side.

So he wanted Vettel to wait till the end of the season and see if Marko had a spot for him despite admitting that at the beginning of the season he assumed the Albon would be there in 2021. He's just making noises that he would have had him back - yes, if there was no-one else available and no-one else had offered Vettel a decent drive, he would have made a low offer to Vettel. It doesn't exactly sound like Marko was going to move heaven and earth to get him to Red Bull, just let him have a seat if Albon failed. Sounds to me like Vettel made the correct decision, take a seat with a team who have a sound car, pity it was at the expense of the better of the two drivers, but it's a Mercedes package.

Eight wheels yes, but no-one said they were round wheels

Then perhaps you would both like this thread -

I know I went to Model Rail in Scotland, after that it was a bit of a blur - did Stafford happen last year or not, I actually cannot remember. I remember being on the platform at Manchester Piccadilly and seeing lots of Chinese people wearing masks - that's not completely unusual but I did think there were more wearing masks than before, it was the first time I really began to think perhaps I need to be more cautious of this thing. I don't know where I was going to - was it Glasgow, Doncaster or Stafford?

Hell would be unboxing a DJM built O scale Big Boy in one of those soft foam box inserts used on the 02 and later Well Tanks, then discovering it was all wheel drive and trying to put it back into the foam inlays intact whilst all the time DJ is whispering that's the most definitive Big Boy ever in a rather sleazy voice.

You had me confused, there is another toll bridge off the a57 near to a place also called Dunham which costs 12p per transmit or 25p per day. But it's called the Warburton bridge and is the cut through to Lymm from the A57 between Irlam and Warrington.

I am starting to think this is a regular passage - it's not the first time on the way back I've gone back via the canal and got the aqueduct to find it open at this time on a Sunday.

Just returned from a walk at Worsley Woods on the old loop line from Patricroft to Bolton Great Moor Street. What has that to do with the Ship Canal - well I have to cross it to get to the woods and the canal aqueduct, the low level swing bridge and the new lifting bridge are all currently in the open state for the Canal as a ship is on it's way one direction or the other - I saw the ship in the distance but as it was viewed end on I don't know the direction of travel.

Shhh don't tell everyone that, I got the last Farish headcode 40 from him recently, I've not had chance to see what else he has, though I did spot a possible Dapol 50043 unrefurbished on the site - I've already got one, but they are hard to find now.

I edited my post immediately after I posted as then I saw all your pictures of ships past Mode Wheel.

Port Salford, they've been given a grant I believe to begin the work to connect the rail lines - there are bridge abutments built but no bridge or actual physical work undertaken so far. As Mol_PMB says there is warehousing going up (slowly) but Peel seem to have turned their heads to housing and are agressively looking to build on some of the ajoining land.

Boats do appear past Mode Wheel to get to the canals and Irwell - but not ships. I stand corrected by the post before me - cargo vessels still appear as well - wow.

You're correct he can spout all he likes as long as it's within the law. And all we're doing here is disagreeing with him and giving our opinion without insulting him which I think is fair. Free speech is tolerated on all platforms, it is people who are censoring free speech not the social media giants. OK there is one glaring incident of recent days where someone has been banned from all general social media sites and probably because he was sowing extremism that was resulting in people dying. There is a real concern amongst many people that that was a step too far because the social media giants have applied a judgement on an individual whilst not applying the same rules to other authoritarian regimes, and actually acting as judge and jury when they have spent so long saying they don't control content and being above certain expectations and laws regarding published content.

Paddy, I hate to break it to you - you're in Social Media - a web forum is just an older design of Social Media, whether you care to admit it or not, you are in it. It's just here you are in the moderated end of the spectrum with people who have a vested interest in having truth being spoken or opinions shared which will not harm others. Facebook is not evil, it's misguided and driven by the need to accumulate wealth through knowledge but it is not peddling extremist views, but there are such places and it's where people driven off Twitter, Facebook etc reside. The good news is that places like Facebook and Youtube offer options similar to RMWeb - you can choose to ignore content, ask not to be shown stuff you don't want to see and you only need to share an email address with Facebook to then get access to the many forums on there that chat about model and real railways. That said I've not seen anything on Facebook that has anything like the depth or detail of RMWeb so it's here I spend most time and only briefly scan Facebook sites to see what trains images people are sharing.

Wasn't aware ships were still coming that far up - that wharf is next to a new housing estate - buy a house with a view of the ship canal (over the piles of scrap metal). Does anything dock at Cargill?