Maurice Hopper

Don't bother.... Find an alternative. Perhaps we should power our layouts from exercise bikes... You pedal and the trains run, as seen on a kids display of LGB at an exhibition in Germany some years ago. Model railways as education.

I still have some coloured pencils with BR stock numbers on them that found their way out of 222 Marylebone Road at least fifty years ago. No doubt the timetablers used the same stock numbers. I can remember when the Southern first used a computer to devise a new tt sometime in the mid 1960s. I think there was a period of human adjustments in the weeks after the introduction. But no doubt the computer had only done as it was told!