john new

Until they finally realise (are forced to accept) that smart motorway all lane running is too f----g dangerous to be kept and extended.

Any decoder suggestions?

Useful link, for wiring up do they take standard spade connectors? I mean those you use for car fittings, sold in Halfords.

We are a dark coloured area, probably due to the two prisons. Even with a hard border (The prison walls) COVID got in, has apparently run rampant and staff have to go in out. Staff and inmates alike have a high % of cases it is being reported. Italy is getting a further wave; however much we want this lockdown to end and get back to normal it can't be rushed as if it is the last year of precautions will have been wasted as we have to restart the same cycle. Made the mistake yesterday afternoon of nipping out to pick-up my scrip as the kids piled off the school bus. Group of at least 10, no masks, no social distancing and it isn't just the kids!

Son in law we think was the same, bluetooth link with the family next door.

Given at least one main manufacture retails sets that are a total, anachronistic, hotch-potch of mixed eras I doubt the will is there.

As I have now made a floor level power box - something I also adopted when I wired my latest little layout to it, a separate plug type for the 15V AC and the DC feed to my PowerCab. I also paired and taped together the two feed wires. As the DIN lead to the Combi goes in the front and the power feed at the back I am unlikely to plug those in the wrong way round. Like you I have adopted coloured cables, I bought a pack of ready wired XLR cables all in different colours. These are good tips to learn as we get more experienced.

A sign of the stressed times we live in - at first glance I read the tarp slogan on the barge as ... CARRYING COVID.

And, in line with my post above, you minimise future "show fail/downtime" risk by using a standard item that should be easily replaceable in the event of failure. (be that the TV, the power pack, or you forget something like the cables.)

Assuming you trust ebay* the inputs look like you should be able to use it but you need to ensure first that - 1) The video you want to show is less than 32GB (max the card can read) 2) Are the USB inputs for loading data only? If you go with the linked digital TV option you know the system works. I use the telly from our spare bedroom as we never have visitors when we are out doing an exhibition. Zero extra cost and as we kept the original box/polystyrene safety shells it is OK to transport. The other advantage to the TV route is if anything does go wrong over the show weekend getting a replacement can generally be done overnight (Fri & Sat) at an out of town retailer and by lunchtime on the Sunday. Things do go wrong, I once forgot to pack one pair of trestles on the way up to Ally Pally - a local Screwfix on the Friday night got us a new set! * My wife and I are always sceptical due to both having had bad experiences previously.

My advice to all beginners is start with something small and simple and learn as you go. That way when you do realise you have improved and want to change things because you have learnt more there isn't too great a time investment to be scrapped. The same factor also means you get something working fairly quickly and are not disillusioned because the mountain looks too tall to climb. Paul Lunn's layout plans books are extremely useful in this regard as they show what can be done with entry level track-work and have a better explanation of what is going on than the older drawn PECO plans books by Cyril Freezer.

Concur. Your other question @Royal42 is partially answered here as this sets out the minimum dimensions for clearances. Many over bridges though had much greater heights as it depended on how deep the cutting needed to be dug. You also get oddities like Winchester where there are quite deep cuttings with over bridges either side of the station yet at the London end of the platform the line goes over a road.

Until you run out of hard disc space. Space is the issue for us all, whether virtual or physical, if my house had two or three extra rooms one would be our library, one a hobbies room shared between my trains and sewing gear for my wife and the third an office so we could again use the dining area as a bespoke diner (currently in use as our office) The kitchen could also do with being bigger! Ok, also add in a music room and a workshop, sadly though we all have to live with what space we have, only a very few win the lottery.

Don’t know as obviously it would need chopping around from 4–6-2 to 4-6-0 and two kits to extend the tender. That said the OP for this is a photoshopped M Navy image.

About to bite the bullet and cull my collection of BackTrack down to just articles on topics of interest, sadly they do not have a digital back issues archive you can subscribe to. (BRM & RMod are on-line, an excellent option) My collection of BTs is just too unwieldy now. The problem of a cull though is you have to second guess what your future interests will be.

Yes P Pt was PowerPoint. Should be tutorials on YouTube; just do a google search. A TV connected to the laptop is unlikely to be stolen at a show as far more valuable items are around and easier to steal. By using a cable to the laptop that can be put out of sight under the baseboard somewhere to minimise theft of that.

If you have something that will run P Point, Apple Keynote (this is bundled on the I-pad) or a movie app there should be a setting for constant repeat. I do it on the SLS stand with a laptop & flat screen monitor or a digital TV and the P Pt sequence just endlessly repeats all show. Does not need to be high spec.

Dapol Battle of Britain as a swap body job?

Google search for GWR turntables using the images option brings up at least one GWR style with flat tops - Birmingham Snow Hill. Link to photo here.

When I have had the same problem I have used Photoshop to rotate and then resaved. I am sure cheaper graphics packages will do the same job including some of the free one’s. As to cause I suspect somewhere in the image’s meta data there is a setting that picks up the original orientation of the phone/camera/scanner re the base of the image. If you don’t reset that it will always orientate to the original base.

Ignoring the track wiring issue on a practical matter - do you have access all round and/or are you going to be cutting holes for ducking under to get inside each circle? At a four foot stretch you won't reach anything at the back if there is a problem. How do I know, I did have a four foot square board with a circle for running in locos sitting on a bunk bed in between visits by relatives. An absolute nightmare if I wobbled it and anything came off in the back corner. I ask as it looks a bit like the yellow cut out area is perhaps your access zone.

White cab roof.

They did vary quite a bit. A GWR one is good if you are modelling the GWR but might well scream wrong to the knowledgeable if used for another company’s facility. I can’t advise further as I only know enough to notice they aren’t the same, for instance some I have seen in videos recently have side spokes (for want of a better word) but not the why and where for of which company had what style. The Airfix one is, for example, very different from the one still extant at Yeovil Junction which makes sense as that depot is ex-LSWR/Southern.

Madness.

The granting of a few days carry over actually benefits staff and management. In the leave year you first allow it most staff then take less than their entitlement so you get a few extra days work out of the staff. From there on in very few instances of everyone clearing off for the last week of the leave year. As most staff don’t resign on mass when they go the taking of it back is not an issue. The other observation is that if the government financial year end was shifted from March to 30th June the burst of year end work would be done in better weather more suited to jobs like external painting. A simple change that would assist in practical terms.