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Looks great - I assume the class 37 is running under rule 1 conditions :)

Well at least it's not "kit built". Apparently the wheels need quartering, I thought that only applied to wheels linked by connecting rods???

It does say images and description to follow

As I've mentioned before, after trying and failing with Peco N gauge track, (due to failnig eyesight and dexterity) I've now gone over to Kato. Their points are of course motorised (12V dc). I've been operating them manually, but am now thinking about wiring up the point motors. Kato produce a Turnout Switch, the idea being one for each turnout. However it occurred to me (being tight-fisted :) ) that it should be possible to use one turnout switch wired to a rotary switch which can be set to send the momentary output from the turnout switch to the required turnout. The only problem I see that whereas with one switch per turnout the switch lever will always be in the correct position to give a pulse of the correct polarity to move the turnout in the required direction, with a rotary switch this may not always be the case. If say I have set it to send one turnout from straight to diverging, then change the rotary switch to carry out the same thing on another turnout, the turnout switch will be in the position to send a pulse of the opposite polarity. In moving it to the required position I will be sending a pulse to move the turnout to the position it's already in, (sorry if this is getting a bit confusing). So my question is, am I likely to damage the point motors by sending a wrong polarity pulse through them, as I move the switch lever to the required position to give the correct polarity pulse. As always, thanks in advance for any responses.

A really silly one, which came to mind reading another (now closed) thread where mention was made of Boots. An old guy stops someone in the street, and asks if they can suggest anywhere he could buy a hot water bottle. "Have you tried Boots" they said. "Yes", he replied, "but the water comes out of the lace-holes"! (Plenty more where that came from but I'll resist the temptation to share more).

I wonder what these would scale up to in N gauge: https://www.qualitystreet.co.uk/matchmakers Good excuse to buy a pack so I can measure them

That takes the biscuit

When eBay madness meets Scotsman madness

I've seen some Del Prado hopefuls on eBay, but this is just stoopid: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325846224775?

Sounds like a Mickey Mouse outfit to me!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196018703948? Well it does look a bit of a gronk!

There's your answer then. Fit track cleaning shoes in front of the first set of driving wheels. Of course if you want to run tender first you'd need them behind the last set of driving wheel as well. :)

Reminds me of a comment made by the MD of a company I worked for, at a meeting discussing high levels of faulty product returned by customers: If we didn't have any customers, we wouldn't have any problems!

Waiting to hose down the floor once all the bottles have been cleared???

Well tis Cornwall so twill be done dreckly.

I guess the answer to my query is somewhere in the 100 or so pages of this thread and I admit I'm being lazy in going through them all to find it but, will the cameo 1 cut plastcard, and if so, what thickness. I'm looking for cut right through, not score and break. Thanks

Good point about the steam through the safety valve at low pressure, didn't think of that. A trick I've seen used on sticking traction engine safety valves was to !"'it it wiv a 'ammer" but I guess that isn't an option or would be frowned on in railway practice

Is the seller using the idea that a picture says a thousand words to tell us the we really "need" this item: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/386144300795?

I agree a safety valve blowing off could be stuck open, but more likely to be due to not being able to get water into the boiler to reduce the pressure. I suspect the term water pump was a case of Chinese whispers. Someone heard what happened but didn't know the correct terminology, so added their own interpretation. AS a matter of interest, were water pumps ever used on Railway locos. I guess may have been on early ones, but I was under the impression that all"modern" locos had injectors only.

Tho job has brought them to their knees!

I sold a heavily modified version of one of those, as part of a Princess Elizabeth set, a few years back. The set was bought for my brother and I in 1954. Times were still hard then, and Dad soon got fed up with buying new batteries for us, so he bought a transformer then added connectors to the controller. He also added a speed control with a hand wound resistance coil. A few years later we were given a Jinty which ran much faster, so to get it to run slower a second coil was added.

Glassy brake linings are not very effective :)

Hardly surprising the brakes failed if they were full of milk. :)

Thanks @Kris . I've googled 2304 and it does indeed show the single vent version. I was trying number either side of 2404, (2403, 2405), but I guess I was being too logical. :)

Resurrecting this thread for a slightly different reason. I'm trying to sort out the Poole part number for the Farish GW single vent van (grey). I have some I want to sell on eBay, but would like to get the boxes and listing correct. (I currently have single and twin vent vans both in boxes marked 2404) I believe the twin vent ot be No, 2404, but cannot find a number for the single vent