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I think that by original station he meant this one, outside and below the main station which would just be the backscene.

However they forgot to correct the same error in the text of the article. WRT Stratford, if those passing through and changing trains without doing an entry or exit were also counted then I suspect it would still be number 1.

Maybe the 64 is single track miles?

Check the first post. 🙂

Hmm, how do you put the flange back?

Given the sizes there your 0 v S7 decision is pretty much made for you. 🙂

As it was the first casting asked about I assumed it to be the top one, the second could well be a drag box.

When you add the rest of the layout it would be best to include two more of the DPDT switches, one for the terminus and one for the yard. This will make operation more flexible and avoid the need to stop and switch controllers when running through from terminus to yard.

4 wheel bogie I think.

What error? You quoted Sams Trains, I take it that was a correct quote of an incorrect statement.

Seems I asked pretty well the same questions, same answer on lights in the set but he ignored my supplementary on retrofitting lights.

I took up SK's offer of his email address and asked him why he was contradicting his own club magazine. And got a very quick reply that he had not been aware of the content of that magazine ad but it is definately the magazine that is wrong. Full marks for the quick reply if not the proof reading.

Especially if they got the set on the strength of the full page ad/competion in the club magazine, page 11, which states specifically that the coaches each have working lights. SK in the interview said otherwise!

And have you noticed the sheer number of TV programs these days where they film the driver having a conversation with the passenger continually head turning to look at the passenger and only paying peripheral attention to the road. Anything from reviewing the car to driving ambulances to buying antiques. They set a bad example, IMHO.

Also at Stratford with Greater Anglia, Overground, Underground, DLR, Elizabeth etc. There are card readers around the station where those changing trains can tap in. I understand that failing to Tap can result in higher charges.

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A good start for a budding track builder. A little worrying is the absence of a set in the curved stockrail so the switch blade won't maintain gauge properly. I would think it well worth spending a bit of time fixing that.

There are two completely different layouts described as wide to gauge traps, the design referred to here illustrated by Trog. In this type both switches must close together to provide a route and when open as illustrated there is no way for the wheels to drop off the rail, they are only really suitable if any likely unauthorised move is very slow. Then the vehicle will be halted as the widening switch rails attempt to force the wheels apart. Heavier or faster and either the rails will be forced together or the wheels forced apart, faster and lighter and the wheels could climb the switch rails and drop back on the track. The other type as illustrated by the Station Master with the example from Sydney is trapping agoinst either of the two side tracks and closing either one swich provides a route. When both switches are open as shown there is no restraint to the vehicles which will just drop onto the ballast and not be much impeded until beyond the crossing where the wheelsets will come up against the diverging rails.

That's a great sunset.

Those are usually called trap points, they are there to meet the "requirement" to protect a passenger line from any unauthorised movement from a goods line or siding. (1950 MOT Requirements, section 22). Catch point. were provided for a different requirement, to protect following trains from breakaways on gradients. (1950 MOT Requirements, section 37). These requirements can be found on-line and downloaded.

From the BBC item, Just tried to find the half hour trains, the fasted I could find was 54 minutes. Can't the BBC check anything politicians say?

Perhaps but those look like cheaper lower rated diodes, which may or may not be good enough, and offered at a high price. The Shottky diodes I linked to have a lower volt drop and a high current rating, better for the job. If you are happy with basic 1A rated diodes they will be much cheaper from Rapid. https://www.rapidonline.com/dc-components-1n4002-1a-100v-silicon-rectifier-diode-47-3132 But maybe its worth your while to get the stripboard with it and the free postage.

Highlighted many pages back.

The interesting bit for me at the time was that the TT models came out with Magnadhesion which I found a great help getting trains hauled by D5572 up my gradient, in fact I replaced NS rail on the hill with Steel to take advantage of it. But there was no mention of Magnadhesion in the publicity for the TT locos. We just found out what it was when Hornby made a big thing of it when the 00 versions were introduced.

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