slow8dirty

You are either doing it very wrong or you are doing it very right!

I'm a DC guy who likes the idea of DCC but every article I read seems to suggest more droppers (s8ds 'little darlings') are an imperative or new gadgetry is necessary. Maybe I don't fully understand what is required with DCC?

Cos I counted em Terry ;-P

Steve, to be honest the number of droppers is just a natural evolution of belt and braces, I actually changed to DCC halfway thru tracklaying and have saved on isolating sections and switches etc. Good DCC wiring is good practice for DC, Trust me if a clanky articifer can understand anyone can

Certainly there's some lovely 1930s GWR featured on RMWeb, eg http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/120848-little-muddle/

Careful analysis needed. E.g, what's your favourite colour? :-)

Welcome back you'll soon get back into the swing of things

Was there any sugar in the tea?  Will make the task much trickier if there was.

Cheers for the comments chaps, not too concerned as was plain track fiddle for a shunting plank. Good point re the sugar tho, glad I gave it up now! Could of have been worse, a rather fine tank car and a controller were either side of ground zero. A scenario many of us has experienced I suspect

"Good point re the sugar tho, glad I gave it up now! "

I'm sure your "friend" is too! 

BR blue, Maroon, GW SBtn and GW according to Dapol Ad in this months MR. I only see BR Blue up for pre order at hattons( only a quick look tho)

Ignore me there all listed

Someone told me some were painted in bauxite, I am just trying to find any proof of this : )

Ooh, what've I missed?

Oops, fake news! I've just bought his Scottish books again after foolishly getting rid a few years ago. Unfortunately not announcing his latest :-)

Aw! Cheers anyway, but you had me all excited there !

Ask me how I know this feeling...

My problem is so many ideas buzzing round but none of them fit in the space I have, and nothing I can come up with in the space I have "hits the spot". Short of reverting to N gauge I'm not sure what to do.

The lad will go far!

That's an impressive length of run, gien that Sodor's off the Cumbrian coast! (But Mrs Kyndley did go on holiday in Bournemouth!)

keep telling yourself that and it might come true!

Could be worse, you could be ballasting!

Next time - build the layout upside down with the track on the bottom and the point motors on the top!

Hope the trains have good Magnatraction to keep them on the track RSJ1977!

Thought you were talking about beer for a moment!

Well, there's nothing stopping you tasting it....

Hope you were reeling 'em in...

It's one of the ingredients in a curry.

Slow by name...(that's more that I've built today though)

'I feel your pain'...

Actually, no, that's b*llocks, I'm just off to make a cup of tea, but I do wish you well with that task...!

Bask in the glory, Baby!!

Too right, Matt - despite the other sources available, that's one site I particulaly miss...

Sorry to hear that, matt. Seems there's no longer such a thing as "job security"

Good luck with the pla-, sorry testing