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Personally I am not sure we are the right people to be telling Hornby what a childrens trainset should look like. It will come with all the biases, cliches and generally it must look and run like a train requirements, probably looking like real trains with real sounds etc. We're all older train freaks not young children unencumbered by life and conditioning. Hornby will have used the right marketing and development to create a range that they believe will be attractive to the general public not to people who like trains.

I still don't understand why they chose such a combination to work trains between Scarborough and Liverpool - I am guessing most patronage is between York and Liverpool. As much as I like big loud locos it looks over powered and over complicated with the Mk5 coaches as well. Was the three Nova specification choice simply to get the trains as quickly as possible, simply ordering a few more 802s would have been suitable for the service, would offer flexibility with the North East services and could run electric Liverpool to Manchester. For the current combination the only options look to be a class 88, as the DVT is a 68 clone in the cab, when they wire Manchester to Leeds to cover the bit from York to Scarborough (and maybe Standedge).

I hope you took a nose door model, smoothed it off and put in the route indicator box and didn't cheat by purchasing a centre headcode engine and flattening off the edges

Or in the case of one individual and I am seriously going off topic he is managing to create a perfect storm that will result in blue on blue

Just look at poor @The Johnster, tortured with a 94xx that was within his grasp but never quite knowing when it would be. Had he not known he could have played trains in blissful unawareness of the development until just before it was announced and then be delighted a new model was just around the corner. I think I prefer it this way, look at the gestation period for the Scotrail DBSO. I hope that in one of the announcements this year there may be a new 1-co-co-1 in N, it must be on the cards now and I would hope the same goes for the 90 but knowing about it years before it appears makes it no more real than if they announce once tooled - it's only real when it's in your hands on your railway. If the pandemic can teach us anything, it is to live in the moment, not in the past dwelling on mistakes, or in the future with expectations and wants that may never come to fruition. Take what you have now and make the best of it, the future may abruptly be taken from under you.

So my thoughts would be that the models above show what I believe is printed details - you've designed something and printed it, to scale and added embellishments. That displays you do have ability with computers, where am I going with this, hopefully not insulting you At the moment I am looking a building a REST API to extract paginated data from a remote database using a new language I haven't used before, it is involves the same logic as a Do....While loop but in M language it looks nothing like Do...While. Hear me out..... I understand the basic concept but this new way of doing it is currently confounding me, but in a few days I will have got it working, there will be a dataset and I will be pleased with myself. I'll do it by building blocks, I cannot expect to do it all in one go, so I will build my knowledge gradually. Yes, the 3D modelling looks complicated, but lots of people are doing it, they weren't all experts in the beginning and they've now got to a point where they can happily make something that aids their model making. My advice would be find a free CAD application and download it, begin by simply building blocks and getting used to how the system works, then embellish the blocks with things like corrugated or brick sides, put holes in and then add a window frame. Go to Youtube and search 3d CAD and 3d printing, there will be lots of people out there wanting to share their knowledge, it's how I ended up doing DCC on my latest layout - I saw someone put a chip in a Farish 08, he sounded like me, and I finally began to believe perhaps I could do that too. Last weekend I put a soldering iron onto the DCC board in a brand new Dapol class 50 and soldered in a wire no thicker than a hair to install a speaker, never tried that before but I'd seen enough instructional videos on youtube (and youchoos) to believe I could do it too. Jump in, what's the worst that can happen?

Are you suggesting we've all been conditioned? We probably have, but how else would you manage a pandemic and get people to act in an unselfish manner without holding a gun to your head. It's the same conditioning that gets everyone behind the army in the face of war, no-one wants war but if it comes your way you have to act and people need to be motivated to act by showing them the impact of not doing anything.

Equally it could be someone shielding but would really like to go out and thinks it is selfish people going against national advice that means that person remains stuck in their home because of the current infection rates. We don't know the motivation of the person and you shouldn't blame someone for reporting something that is currently against the law. You may choose not to, that is your prerogative but equally it's not fair to call someone out for reporting something. The police are in a difficult situation, they are having to deal with things that in the ordinary scheme of things are not crimes but have been criminalised to control the spread of the virus, and the people they are speaking to and issuing fines to would not in many cases be the sorts of people the police would normally be dealing with as perpetrators. I made a comment earlier in the thread about fishing, I stand by my view but I wish to apologise for making it in the context of this thread, it was divisive.

I don't mind people getting out of their house locally and going for a walk or doing exercise, it is people pushing it, going out to do other stuff. I am also not in the business of tut tutting what people choose to do, but I don't want people coming on here justifying that fishing or trainspotting is something it's ok to travel out to do because it is the thin end of a wedge. I have concerns for other people stuck at home for months on end in situations far from perfect. We're in a dire situation, the daily deaths are now at their highest level and we need to be doing everything now to keep the infections at bay and also not force even more draconion sanctions on our abilities to do stuff.

So you catch it and toss it back - have to say that is barbaric - playing with another living creature for sport.

It does seem daft, can I go for a walk at the local resevoir with my friend if we arrive by seperate cars with a coffee each - No. Can I visit the same resevoir by car and go fishing - Yes. If the fish is your only means of eating then I may accept it's ok, but last time I looked Sainsburys was full of the stuff. Doesn't make sense, and as always people look for gotchas on not complying with a simple request - stay the f*ck at home unless you really need to go out.

There's so much on that map - the five principal stations in Manchester, look at Ordsall and Salford as well for sidings

At the end of the day, the rules are go out of the house for necessary business - so shopping and exercise - standing on a station no matter how desserted is neither necessary business nor exercise unless you live in one of the few houses a few metres from the station. It's hardly news, but the number of people who are saying on Facebook "What harm does it cause" don't realise it's not one rule for some but not for others, it's the same rules for all of us. Stay home, save lives

So room three 10 x 9 probably gives you an L shaped 10 x 5 modelling area without fouling doors and not being under a window. The space between the internal door and the window then being a suitable desk space.

Working hard to ensure the track is clean and the loco retains an electrical contact, nothing worse than your loco conking out on dirty track. Still safer than the video of the secondman on a US service sweeping snow from the track on the main in front of a 2 loco & train lash up - skipping from one track to the other right in front of the moving train which was struggling for grip.

Has it only been four years

Apparently the Locomotion 9400 is due in stock tomorrow, deliveries from next week, so the rest cannot be far behind..... The @The Johnster will soon have his precious.

Looking at the loco, it wasn't before - the loco is younger than Pink Floyd - it was in the mid 1970s wilderness years when he had to turn to being a secondman (as opposed to a frontman) to make ends meet - certainly explains the dystopic 'Wall' album.

The hardest part of being in business is probably knowing when to say no - if someone is offering you money today and that money may not be there tomorrow the urge to say yes becomes harder and harder to resist especially if there are outside forces that press down - mortgages, pandemics, competition. You have to come up with a workable production line that leaves gaps for life, downtime and maintaining your mental health - then when work comes your way to you look at the slots available, you tell the person when you can do the work and make an agreement. Perhaps you can offer discount to people who are can be more flexible to start dates allowing to still chop and change schedules within reason so if a piece comes up you can reschedule to accomodate without over working yourself.

Thanks, I think I just got into my head it should be moving whilst in test and a lack of movement then threw me. I got my test purchase working on my bench - new to DCC, but got to say having it all in the one unit should make installation a dream. I still need to formally program the other 12, it seems best to do it off the baseboard, number them and then install - all the clips are in place on the power bus I just need to get around to installing them. I am undecided about whether to power the frog and drop the spring on the points which I think it stopping me getting on with it - but it's not as though I cannot install these with the frog unpowered and retro fit that wire/pull the spring later - it's only another wire.

Have been looking at my loco hauled passenger stock for Northgate, the intention is to use these on trains to: Cardiff (4 MK1 coaches) Sheffield/Hull or York (5 MK1/2 coaches) Realised yesterday that I had three 5 coach trains each of which had a buffet - not really suitable for the short range regional services I am portraying at Northgate. So I've reformed the trains without buffets, now I have two five coach trains, a 4 coach day train for Cardiff and a mixed train for an overnight service to Cardiff. This feels more appropriate to the scope of the trains from the station. My 4 speakers arrived this morning for my DMUs, just awaiting the sound decoders which should arrive sometime next week.

Nearly gone but after listening to several hours of 'debate', it is clear he still looms large in their minds. Sadly in some of their arguments I can see some glimpses of truth about the Democrats - they've both been at each other so long that neither side is the good guy, just that the Republicans found themselves with the baddest guy. And to think, he may once have swayed the Democratic way (not that he believed in anything they offer, he just wanted a vehicle). But back to our correspondent Jenny

Except when Boris has his fingers crossed behind his back.

That's criminal You need to be Loch Tupp!

It's not the last two class 50s - its first and last 50050 was D400