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I was wondering that myself, but of course with current restrictions us Northerners in Tier 3 land won't be going anywhere near the South West to see the 143s behind (or half the time at the front) of a 4 coach train. How long left for the 143s?

They're gone (apparently) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-manchester-55110222

I just realised I touched someone other than my wife today - the first time since March. Was involved in a small shunt in the car, not my fault, the other driver and I shook hands as there had been a little bit of argy bargy from the shock of being rear ended. Didn't even consider covid, that said I did use anti-bac when I entered the shop, not because I had shook hands but because I had had my hands all over the rear bumper on my car. It's only now I am reading this I've realised that I was in physical contact. There was a chap in Sainsburys, worse for wear would be a fair way to describe him, mask under his nose right up in the face of the member of staff. He wasn't arguing just asking where the Quality Street are and then they bumped elbows. In that circumstance I was concerned about the close proximity of the two people. What does that say about me? In an RTA I only thought about the incident, but once in a normal environment with everyone in masks I became fearful.

There is this, not the crisp quality of clean vinyl but it gives some of the delights of these old recordings. https://www.youtube.com/user/bobgellatly

Free, or feel free to donate something in a couple of months if you feel like it.

According to Personnel today - Exeter is working with non covid care. Manchester is also non covid. If nothing else having these facilities is letting the NHS catch up on backlogs from the first wave in non covid diagnostics and care.

That's why they always put a cover over said buttons, so that they have to first lift of the cover and then press the button. Watch any disaster movie and before they press any big red buttons there is always the tense lifting of the cover. In the case of Alien, Signourney Weaver had the cover, and if I remember also had to pull out several plungers which needed turning to start the emergency self destruct.

As I have 3 108s, a 122 and a 101 I'm probably not in the market for anymore DMUs but clearly Farish have made strides in their later sound locos.

Movement, well there has been movement, it's not currently moving and is silent, but it has moved

Saw this at Doncaster, at the Racecourse, they were having some sort of exhibition thing, there were lots of other model railways there too, and places where you could buy model locos and other bits and pieces. I remember Andy Y was there too, in person, he was lent up against another model railway in the foyer. I think there used to be lots of these things in the past, almost every weekend at times. Such a long time ago, memories fade. But back to the model, it was excellent in the flesh and comes back to the old adage, it's not how much track you can lay down and how many locomotives you can fit on your railway at one time, but how well you capture the character of what it is you are modelling.

From the horses mouth at Bachmann https://www.Bachmann.co.uk/product/category/161/class-40-disc-headcode-40012-'aureol'-br-blue/371-184. The 31 is the same as are the 8fs, the Castle is Next18 but there is only provision for a speaker - which according to youchoos is a simple fit as a result of this. Where it gets messy is with the Class 108 - it doesn't indicate on the sound fitted version what they have used, the non sound versions remain 6 pin and I don't know if the non sound versions are speaker fitted - they were Farish's first sound output it may be only the sound versions have the speaker. Does anyone know what they have done in the sound versions of the 108?

The latest 40s are all Next 18 & speaker fitted like the 31, with 371-184 all I need to do is buy 40012 and stick in a suitable sound decoder.

It does look interesting and I think the lack of wiring is the biggest element - less risk to people, less expense to set up and maintain, less impact of storms and no unsightly structures.

It also means a train can be parked in the station (how else do you describe it to a 5 year old) whilst the other train on that circuit does loops. Kids are probably not bothered about a couple of through lines Doncaster style - they want to imagine people getting on and off the train.

and real decorative wood on the back half

https://www.coventry.gov.uk/verylightrail There are also proposals for road trams elsewhere which do away with the track as well.

A class 44 with discs to fit. A sealed beam class 45 & 46 Looking forward to it

Not yet - Probably pick up 40012 when it comes out and get a youchoos or biffo decoder for it, then early 2021 there will be the class 31 of course. Looking inside my class 24/25 there isn't much space and I am not about to start hacking at metal so they will remain silent. This is not just about a project with sound I wanted to overcome my fear do doing something and to make wiring a terminus and stabling area less about isolators and switches. The locos sound a little noisier than on DC - I am guessing that is a CV thing, which is a future thing to learn about and then resolve - need a layout first not a 40cm test track.

All in all not a bad evening: Two locos set up on Sprog Ipad throttle working Android throttle working One Bachmann and one Rails chip tested Learnt how to alter addresses and run locos on a very short piece of track. Need to learn about controlling more than one loco at a time on a single throttle (but thats for another day and a bigger run) Tomorrow it's the cobalt's turn for a test connection, then it is building the layout. If only I had a sound fitted N loco.........

Well that was easy - installed the free version of withrottle - one click on JMRI later and I am controlling 24077 via an ipad. So I may be investing in the paid version, unless someone has something else to recommend. EngineDriver is Android, only my work phone is Android unless I use my older work phone, hmmm.

It lives - not helped that I had selected the wrong Sprog settings first on JMRI and then having put the Bachmann Chip in the wrong way round - what happened to the white spots they used to use? Anyway, class 24077 moved at the behest of my mouse on my laptop. Now can I get a throttle working on my ipad!!

I am still hoping that there is a tooling for the King which we are not yet aware of and will turn up with EFE in the Spring. Of course it is highly unlikely but one can hope.

Two six pin decoders and a Cobalt IS Digital received - I wonder what I will be testing this evening. All being well I can forge on with my new layout this weekend and order some more kit.