john new

Presumably instead of the factory fitted chip. Not at home but from memory that is a Loksound5 fitted for me pre-delivery.

How do you get the horn to do the typical duck fart sound of a real Deltic horn? Was running mine yesterday after also hearing some on a video and on my model KOYLI the sound is very clean. Sadly some of the tiny bits already knocked off even with careful handling, at least with the 2ft rule I won’t notice they are missing.

Taken the plunge on booking a Missenden loco course. Any Christmas money to go on some better tools. Decided better to be shown the right way rather than plough on regardless and stuff up what I am working on.

Ugly things which I won’t miss visually but I never got to ride one so no idea what they were like to travel in.

From something I recently read on line the process of getting the loco back to running order isn't far off completion. (Can't remember where read hence no link)

I like it. You are taking 3D printing to a high level.

Some of the service sheets/exploded diagrams are on line on one of the Tri-ang Hornby collectors websites. Recently needed one for an old Class 31 to see the exploded parts diagram. Not sure they all are though. Sadly not still got the link but Google found it easy enough.

The tour was a joint SLS and MLS tour with the headboard used that featured both logos.

Useful, if now an old thread. Finding that there are still chips not listed that seem to be common one's in use. Next 18 for example, I only see Next 25 in the list. Still very much on the DCC learning curve.

Length of train? Years ago I placed several rakes alongside each other and reckoned 5 Mk 1s looked enough to represent the 7 used on the NYMR. What is also needed if running truncated length trains is some sort of scenic break to split the view so that the full length of train isn’t seen in one full length. Darlington’s over roof would achieve that for trains going through the train sheds, or if the viewer had the through lines at the back, when running fast. At the club open day a couple of weeks back I ran a freight round our test track which must have been around 5ft long. Probably short by real standards but looked long even on this largeish layout with no view blocking items. This will also vary by era as modern bogie freights are much longer than those of the four-wheel wagon era.

Good to see you have one of the older SLS loco drawings books.

Last time I saw Tees Yard it was almost derelict with very few sidings.

Several decades back I started to draft an article on layout planning that didn't happen but the basic principles and order of determination are still in my mind:- Determine what you actually want to do with it when you have finished it - round and round, end to end, shunting or a mixture? (You answered that in the OP.) For some people though the interest is in the planning and/or just building a layout that satisfies them rather than running the end result. Have I a company, period or geographic area I want to model or is it to be mostly rule 1? (NB You have selected that already = contemporary South Durham/Teesside). What space have I got available, and the related issue of permanent versus portable/occasionally dismantlable for visitors staying over etc. Then it gets tricky - if you have already got stock etc., in hand can that scale fit what I want into the space available at (3)? If space isn't sufficient then either revise the scale to model in downwards or revisit (1) & (2) to find the compromise that can be made to fit the space available. My guess with your desire as set out in the OP is you are either going to have to stick with the Darlington - Teesside scenario you outlined in the OP by dropping it down to TT or N gauge so it fits or alternatively bend the local geography a bit so you still get the flavour of the area. What is it/are the key features? The operating pattern The overhead wires of the ECML and related traction Darlington BankTop station The historic bits like Skerne Bridge etc., etc. Just some thoughts before you start building something that won't satisfy you further down the build path.

The government machine (small g on purpose) is very good at recycling the same launch story about new money that some how doesn’t get as far as civils on the ground. I think the cash for the A358 upgrade south of Taunton has been announced now at least three times as “new” but it still hasn’t progressed beyond the engineering drawings. Hopefully the upgrade over the Pennines will happen.

Thanks, bought a copy anyway. Nice videos.

I knew of it already but good tip for people who didn’t.

Been waiting about 3-years for the one I’ve preordered, hopefully the Rowntrees version will eventually be shipped.

Very weird, as yes they have now reappeared. 😀😀😀 Having bought a few replacements in the art shop on Saturday I guess that was inevitable. Why weird? My last memory of using them was with them in a tubular ex-ginger biscuits tin, hence thinking I’d accidentally binned them inside that tin. I’m certain I did bin that tin. When found this evening whilst looking for something else they were (a) in the place I’ve looked in several times as it is where they were expected to be (b) in a bright pink ex-washing powder tub clearly labelled brushes and (c) I would swear in court the box they were inside had different contents yesterday as it also had other stuff there too. My wife and I are both convinced this house has a poltergeist.

Interesting to note the LNER B16/1 has what looks like a Westinghouse brake pump thingy but the BR one in the lower photo hasn't. I have a B16 kit to build so just some of the details I am going to have to examine closely.

Getting overly forgetful of what I have on my own website - it was/is Wolds Way Lavender and I have a photo gallery on line from a visit several years ago. https://www.island-publishing.co.uk/jalbums/Wolds Way/Wolds Way/album/index.html

Something I forgot earlier. When originally built the N G/miniature tracks at the lavender farm just off the A64 east of Malton ran tourist trains but also used the line for bringing the crop in to the processing plant (distillery?). I am not 100% certain of the name and there is more than one probably Wolds Way Lavender.

Plenty of military narrow gauge of around the 18” gauge, albeit a lot was for hand pushed trolleys for ammo etc., from store to gun. My sketch plan of the tracks at High Angle Battery on Portland - plenty about it on line with photos. Also two others locally for carrying torpedoes out for test firing. One along the Breakwater the other on a pier. This is the one on the Breakwater still in situ in 2011, from memory though it was 2ft gauge. My image/copyright.

Mixed emotions this week. On the positive moving forwards towards finally getting my hernia op done as I got offered a queue jump cancellation (should be next Friday) on the negative lost items. It appears I may have inadvertently dropped my tube of modelling brushes into the last recycling collection when clearing c**p off the work area. Easily physically replaced but not the sentiment as several had been my Dad’s and others had been given me as presents. If they are just lost in the house/wrongly put away no idea where I haven’t already looked!

Question re the DVD for digital readers via RMGold. Are all the layout videos on the DVD one's we've already had as from the cover links/are also on the WoW site?

This is a bit like the backgrounds in/out of photos debate, showing the height of modelled backscenes versus extended skies etc.. Is the point of the photo about what looks best or a guide to others of how the modeller(s) did whatever it is being photographed? The top one is more useful to show the how they did it (a short bit of screening) the bottom one looks more realistic. It will vary according to where it is used and what the purpose of showing it is.