DaCSTaR

Hello everyone. By way of introduction (joining up today, 5th March 2022), I am relishing a return to model railways at the ripe old age of 67 after about what seems a lifetime since my Triang Hornby set as a nipper (a blue 0-4-0 tank, if my memory still serves me well! It doesn't on many an occasion!). In those days I had plenty of time and zero money; but these days I seem to have no time (or at least not enough) but, fortunately, a few bob spare with which to indulge myself in this fascinating hobby.

I've built my baseboard, splashed out (precipitously) on DMUs, diesels and carriages, bought the points and the track (which I am about to start laying over the next few weeks), and I've been stopped in my tracks reading the preliminary information available online for the automated control of the layout (and I used to be a Cobol computer programmer in what seems these days like a former life!).

I'm living in deepest, glorious Devon (well, it is when the rain stops) and I would be interested to make the acquaintance of anyone in my neck of the woods (the south west, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset) who has operating experience of the two leading programs for automation: iTrain and Traincontroller; that is to say, real in-depth experience from set up to a layout running with automation.

Alan