Dr Gerbil-Fritters

that's better....

Proper job.  You're welcome.

Pick ups are like cow bells, you always need more.

9 hours ago, BWsTrains said:

 

I've built around 15 of these turnouts and share your enthusiasm. One thing which I've experienced twice now may be relevant to you, insulation gap issues.

 

From your pic above on my experience these look too narrow for comfort, I've had at least two shorts arising due to either most subtle movements in the switch blade or dirt bridging the gap at the "knuckle" point (as shown in Wayne's instruction sheet). In one case I had to lift the installed turnouts and widen the gaps, (more details to be posted on my topic shortly). Wayne suggests 0.3mm, I think a little wider does no harm!

 

Good luck with your project.

 

Colin

 

 

 

Yes I thought this might be a possibility.  I have considered inserting a small sliver of suitably sized plasticard into the gap for Turnout 2 .... 

Turnout 2 will incorporate several minor improvements based on the experience of Turnout 1.  For one thing, I've read the instructions now...  😃

What is the flux in Wayne's construction pictures?  It looks to be in a very handy small bottle with a neat nozzle.  That would help with my untidy soldering I think.

I joined the EMGS.  Highly recommended.  I hope they appreciate it, I never usually join anything!

What is the best flex track to match this turnout range?

Could it be done?  There are several restricted height road bridges on that stretch - Knighton Fields Road and Lancaster Road - that couldn't be lowered, then there's about 500m from Regent Road bridge to the A6 London Road bridge for any descent into Leicester Station.

Long term maybe the entire station site could be lowered... I don't think anyone here would shed any tears if Leicester was bulldozed (apart from the porte cochère which is listed I believe) the rest of it is of no merit whatsoever.  The glorious Midland station buildings went in the 70s I think.

I wish it would happen soon, as I am not a fan of the dirty noisy clapped out junk that EMR have to use at the moment and some clean quiet EMUs would be preferable.  But it s not London, so I doubt anything will happen in my lifetime.  

This might be of interest to class 70 fans... number 12,  rarely seen since it was returned to the US.

70 012 on the GE test track

How do you manage 3 links?  Is there a special tool?

I can't manage them in 7mm...

On 20/02/2024 at 22:35, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said:

I happened to be in Schaerbeek this afternoon and I got the most odd sensation of deja vu...

On 22/02/2024 at 13:55, Phil Bullock said:

You will be wanting my beautiful horse next!!! 

Only after we've been to the Lovely Girls contest first, we've got to judge sandwich making, laughing and walking around...

On 07/02/2024 at 09:59, simon b said:

 

If you take out the complex trackwork it becomes close to this: 

 

 

Just to be clear I'm not knocking Buckingham, for what they had to work with back then it's a work of art. But it doesn't come across as an intensive worked commuter terminus which is what Minories set out to represent, with all the extras it has the operation moves to something else. 

I actually built this a couple of years ago.  It was pretty good, and a lot of fun to operate, but it had a couple of insoluble problems to do with fitting it into my shed ( two duckunders for a start) and I dismantled it.  I can post some pics if any one is interested.

23 hours ago, Keith Addenbrooke said:

Why do I keep looking to see how many O Scale Dapol unlined Black Terriers are still in stock? (currently 202).  

Where are you seeing these?  I've searched and can only find 72 Dapol O gauge steam locomotives of which 70 are Sold out on Pre-order....

4 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

 

Do some people only get two tides?

 

Yes, High Tide and Low Tide

😀

1 hour ago, Hal Nail said:

We've obviously reached that stage in every threads cycle where the early instructions, in this case a plea to not discuss the reasons due to sensitivity when it is still raw, get completely ignored.

You might as well politely ask the tide not to come in twice a day, you'd get the same response...

Sorry to see Hattons go, they were 'always there' from my earliest days reading the Railway Toddler in the mid 1970s right up until this week.  I spent a fair bit with them until a few years ago when my spending on model trains virtually ceased.

On 05/01/2024 at 13:42, The Lurker said:

As a child I was given Railways in the Years of Pre-Eminence  by OS Nock. IThe Golsdorf "masterpiece" was always one of my favourites in it.

If you enjoy it in picture form, you will enjoy it even more in real life...

It lives in the museum at Strasshof an der Nordbahn which is about 45 minutes by train from Vienna Hbf.  It comes out to play now an then, which would be a sight to see.

I had an excellent day there last August, pretty much had the entire museum to myself.

15 hours ago, Graham_Muz said:

As stated above it was two time grey the area between the body side white lines was a darker grey. 
 

It never left Ashford in this livery. 

Ah, thank you.  I missed the significance of that when I read it and didn't relate it to the rather racy livery in the picture.

The booster is a marvellous machine.  On this website there is an intriguing picture  of CC1 in what appears to be a rather racy two-tone livery.

Any ideas what colours were involved?  And what about those 'eyebrows'!

3 hours ago, PenrithBeacon said:

You're over thinking it. Something like RMweb needs a high spec PC, good web connectivity,

I'd like that, I could play GTA V online properly...

Wouldn't fancy my chances at hosting RMWeb on it though

I see almost all the images are gone, and after a lengthy period of not using RMWeb I'm not sure I can be bothered to continue with it.

Abingdon had at least one, possibly two scissors and a double slip:

Whomever drew this plan has made rather a fudge of it... the double slip is just above the engine shed, and the scissors is in front of the engine shed, although it may have been an outside single slip in reality - I've never seen a photo of this area.  Signalling diagram suggests a single slip of some kind.

Marvellous trackplan for a terminus - very modelable.  Pity tis GWR where all the engines look the same.

<hat, coat, etc>

The only couplers I've ever found to work properly as advertised are kadees.  When I briefly resumed modelling in OO after years in HO American, I soon got fed up with the half arsed coupler solutions I tried.  I've given up on UK outline again, and now model DB/DR era IV in HO, standardising on kadee #17 and #18 in NEM pockets for shuntable stock and Roco close couplers for fixed rakes.

No help to you, sorry for the thread drift!

What a shame UK and European railways stuck with chain couplings!