Grovenor

What evidence do you have for that scale? I have seen similar gifts from Bombardier when I worked for a purchaser of trains and those were 1:87.

Hornby themselves on the website suggest that you check that the app works on your phone/tablet before buying the decoders and I certainly intend to follow that advice. The release date is presumably the date the app will be released as if not then they could release the decoders now.

Some relevant info here, http://www.norgrove.me.uk/buckeye.htm

Should be Grovenor, NOT Grosvenor (Its an anagram). The article is here, http://www.norgrove.me.uk/points.html

There is no need for any distants on your plan unless you assume that the next signalbox is very close.

If you have the drawings/data for the turnouts used by the railway you are modelling I would see it as much better to spend a bit of time with 'Templot' and set up a custom template to give exactly as you want it. Its practically as simple to build on a printed plan as in an expensive fast Tracks jig. Templot is customisable for every detail.

When I looked some appeared to be offering immediate delivery.

HM7000 decoders do appear to be on sale at Amazon before Hornby have released them.

Did you use the MERG 'contact us' option at the bottom of our webpages? I ask because I have repied to every such message recieved. So it may have got lost somewhere, try asking again if you wish.

Looks good, and you have the stove position correct on the new one.

But those of us who do model with buffer contact, eg in P4 and EM, are very thankful for the fad of providing sprung buffers on 00 models as it saves us a job on conversion, and aftermarket sprung buffers can be pricy and fiddly. So please don't ask them to stop fitting them.

Plenty of info in Google, eg. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiwsbT8iIv9AhURS8AKHU2ZB4EQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fmark_vogel%2Falbums%2F72157617271169939%2F&usg=AOvVaw2WeAmNQ2upg2tGljcRuVI0

Taken from that link, IMHO, that has been the standard size at least since the late 1950s modernisation plan signalling schemes, only the high security featires are more recent. The LMR 60s resignalling versions mostly had a peaked roof or a slope to the back depending on the specific contractor. No level flat roofs as that would be asking for corrosion, roofs have to shed water. Versions with no doors at the back were used, eg for battery boxes but were not numerous.

Here is a typical German double slip as it should look. http://www.norgrove.me.uk/images/66162-WiesbadenDS.jpg

That's so close to S that it would make little or no difference. Might as well use S. There is at least some basic supplies and a society to help. http://www.s-scale.org.uk/main.htm It is significantly bigger than 4mm, even if 4.76mm may not look it at first sight. And 1:64 is convenient to work to.

Those look to be 12 mm wheels, ie wagon wheels, when they should be 14 mm coach wheels. This will make the buffers and couplings sit low, which will not help. There should be no need to change the bogies, if the wheels are not rotating freely then DCC concepts do a nice tool for cleaning up the bearings. If the bogies are not turning freely then you need to look carefully to see where the problem is, there may be an obstruction somehere that can be removed.

So disqualified but he was able to get his car out of the pound. Now he gets another 18 months added to the disqualification but his car only impounded for 28 days. Doesn't hang together. Expect another offence in a month's time.

E2001 was primarily used for traing loco drivers, the Clacton branch didn't need any. As soon as a few AL1-5s had been commissioned there was no more need for it as the training could be done with the real things.

And given the failure rate with diecast chassis these last few years how long before we hear of these HD collectibles quietly disintegrating in their boxes?

The photo does not show signal 1 where you have drawn it.

Classes AL1 - AL5 used the Styal line for commissioning tests in that period, working out of Longsight. I don't think the line was suitable for particularly high speed testing and I never heard of Deltics being involved. I had a couple of weeks at Longsight as a vacation student from Uni and went out on a few test runs but nothing particularly fast. One was trying to get the ammeters up to the redline and our test train wasn't heavy enough so we were using the handbrake to increase the load, had to stop when the smoke and smell coming through the cab floor suggested the brakes were about to catch fire.

Because everybody administering the system is also a driver and can see themselves being in the hotseat sometime. Same is not the case for guns and knives.

And given the global security situation, should we be relying on offshore wind. Just how long would it take a Russian submarine to cripple an offshore windfarm?

Ah, but when the BBC wheeled out Lord Berkely on yesterday's morning news he was absolutety positive that cancelling HS2 would allow all the money to be spent on Liverpool - Leeds and Birmingham - Derby which are in much greater need of the time saving.

They sell what they claim to be special solder for it. And claim that its easy to solder!