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LEGO weren’t like that when I were a kid! Had it been, I could easily see myself having got into doing your sort of stuff with it. Enjoy the journey. Paul.

Perhaps they plan to look later and see which bits are bent and then look for what bent it! Maybe it came via Brum, then (in theory) little problem ‘til after Tyseley. Paul.

Corrected the quote for you Cap’n. Paul.

I was only there on the Saturday! And anyway, I’m only a late comer to the Newhaven Harbour team, although I do rather enjoy being Harbour signalman. Paul.

It’s not a wonky M it’s a wonky W. Clearly, I stand on the opposite side of the rodding run to you. :-) Paul.

I’m one of the xtrack cad users on here too. I did it that way too - you soon develop ways to do certain things. Then you find out that there was an easier way! It suits me for what I want to do, which is why I like it. Paul.

I have a couple of ribbed coaches. Since you know my main interest in modelling, you won’t be surprised to hear that they will be remaining ribbed for the time being. I’ll just pretend they are not there. Paul.

Sad to hear this too, despite the inevitability. Condolences to the family as they come to terms with his absence. It doesn’t seem that long since he retired and was looking forward to more time for modelling. One good thing was his faith the hope that gave him for the future. Jonathan: Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory. Paul.

I see no silver bullets. :-) They do look good though. Paul.

I managed that too! I think I converted sone of them back by duplicating in the iPhone after I had reset the settings which copied as .jpg (though might have been the iPad). Paul.

Saw your question over on the signalling forum so came here to have a look. The SRS Swift publication isn’t going to help much as it shows signals in the same places as in the photo above. Answering your question, in each direction you have a distant signal, home signal and starting signal. The home and starting signals are the same bit of kit as you suspected, the naming is just to differentiate which side of the signal box they are. Out of interest, the Swift publication shows miniature semaphore arms for the shunt signals, so I’d guess that your diagram is from a later date. Personally, I wouldn’t worry about it unless you’re modelling a specific year and you want it to be ‘absolutely accurate’. Paul.

I believe anyone can purchase, you just don’t get the member discount. Unfortunately the SRS website was down last time I tried (hosting problems). Paul.

One of the offices I worked in had a cartoon on the inside of the door saying “Do you want it done now, or done right?” It was the signalling Testers office. Paul.

Super envious of your trip! Thank you for posting and thanks for the hotel link. One of my favourite rides in Switzerland is Giswil to Meiringen. Paul.

Ah. So that what they did. Paul.

Dear Cornwall County Council, please would you pay lots of money to remove permanent jobs (i.e. not seasonal) from Cornwall and send them to Devon. You know it makes sense . . . Paul.

Likewise, Dumfries controls both sides of Annan. Paul.

Roskear (formerly junction) hasn’t had any points for a long time! I designed the rewire of the box c.1981, still had points to the (docks?) branch and semaphore off the branch. Within a year of completion, a locking test was undertaken and found to be too worn for safe use. Paul.

Even the super duper scheme didn’t have bi-di from Totnes to Aish because that would have involved altering Exeter panel (which I believe is a no-no). Paul.

Strangely (!) the top of the box just happened to be hidden when I took the photo . . . Paul.

HAPPY NEW YEAR Wishing you all the best for the coming year. No.1 daughter got me a jigsaw for Christmas: Any guesses on the end result? Paul.

You can use extra switches on point motors to stop the opposite one moving when it shouldn’t. But the MP1 only has one switch which is needed for frog switching. I would expect iTrain to be able to manage the conflict once you have got that far. Until then, you just have to instill good practice and always set the other crossover straight before setting one to crossing. You can still share the same dcc address for each of the three way points and the appropriate other point - it doesn’t help with the three way conflict, but it doesn’t make it any worse. Paul.

I prefer plaited! Paul.

Are they lamps or LEDs? (Or a mixture of both?). Advice will vary, depending. And, do you have a means of measuring voltage e.g. a meter? Paul.

You can’t post until you go down one more level. Select the area on that page and the next page should let you post. Paul.