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These are Plastic with a metal solebar and an internal weight. Charlie

CV29 One with a Even Number, one with an odd number. Charlie-Legomanbiffo

An all new 153 is being planned by someone else. Charlie

Sadly people get ripped off on Ebay, the problem we have is when we are at a show, we cannot refuse sales of our FLA Wagons, sadly last year one guy from the West Midlands bought 8 X FLA Wagons and later we found a guy in the Birmingham area selling them on Ebay at a starting price of £20.00 more than the price he paid, I wont say what some went for, So the moral of the tale is dont get ripped off, just search out the products on Google and shop around, Ebay is the lazy mans way to spend too much money !!!! For Realtrack Stuff see: https://www.realtrackmodels.co.uk/

I was told this very sad news at the Weekend at the N gauge show in Leamington Spa, it came as a bit of a shock. He is someone we all will miss. I know he has been having this battle for a some time, but this sad news was still a bit if a shock. See you one day George !!

No plans currently.

The first batch or Provincial are mainly still available except the Scottish one, BUT by Christmas the stock levels should be quite low, so if one is required then now is the time to start saving up !!! This version has beeh our most popular model, with over 1,638 currently sold, we only got 1850 in total 2 Years ago. But the 1,250 Saltire onesw were the fastest seller !!! Charlie

As we are working on the older liveries the plan is: Working Sidelights. Switchable Off front whites & rear reds for multiple running. Switchabe On, rear cab lights. ANYTHING ELSE ????

We now have available with regional accents on the announcements. Central Trains Arriva Trains Wales (South OR North Wales) Northern N.East (Geordie Announcements) Northern Yorkshire-Lancashire Area East Midlands Trains Scotrail

The decoders are ESU Next 18s with a wheeltappers file, as is the NER Railcar. The NE Bo-Bo is again a Next 18 with a Legomanbiffo sound file. All available from www.dckits-devideos.co.uk

We are looking into 'What Next' So please have your say:

Last two available as of today !!!! (156115 & 156116 Only) Charlie

For those interested the new Legomanbiffo Sound files are here for the 158 Including Multiple Destination Announcements: Arriva Trains Wales (With a Regional Accent) for South Wales or North Wales !! Central Trains (With a Regional Accent) Northern Rail (Newcastle/Teeside & Yorkshire-Lancashire destinations) East Midland Trains (With a Regional Accent) Scotrail (With a Regional Accent)

Yes these are made at the Rapido Factory to our specifications, the new batch has two different bodyshells to cater for the current specification and the original specifications.

Thisis a sympton of an unsealed speaker, just take the speaker out of its sound chamber (the speaker has the two sprung tabs on it) then using a small screwdriver make a new gasket using a little bit of white PVA glue, in a thin bead around where the speaker fits on, making sure no PVA gets on the silver diaphram, the reseat the speaker, puse down to seal then leave over night. IF anyone wants some free speakers to replace what you have in the model, send £1.35 to cover the Postage & Fee's, and I will send you some. You can send it by PAYPAL to: charlie@dckits.co.uk Or contact DCKits-Legomanbidffo on: pacercharlie2@gmail.com Glad to help. Charlie

RIP Tony. Great Guy and brilliant modeller. You will be missed. Charlie

Leeds to Bradford was a GN line with L&Y Running rights, so no issues there.

Suggest asking SWD, as if you are a sound creator like SWD, Digitrains, Howes, Coastal, Wickness Models, Jamie Goodman, Youchoos, Mr Sound Guy & legomanbiffo, it would make no commercial sense to give your files away of nothing. The only reason that would make sense is: 1/ Too Busy to deal with 100's of customers, as I believe they still supply the trade (Unless they help ESU to do away with that part of the buisness too ) with loads of Free Stuff. 2/ Running down the Buisness (No evidence of that) but please bear in mind Covid & Decoder shortages will have reduced the ESU's overall buisness greatly, IE Cash Flow. 3/ Too much for one person to handle especially on the phone as there is no Online Internet ordering system to make things easier, everything comes by phone or mail. 4/ Retirement (No hint of that either) The overview could be: Manufactures/OEM Customers no longer using ESU anymore (Bachmann, Farish, Dapol, Hornby) + decoder shortages & Cash Flow = Less decoders = Less ESU decoder sales thus Free Downloads = more blank decoder sales. No Idea if the above is correct or not but it could be a very wise move, or folly. Time will tell. The hobby is going through a 'interesting' period and I can see more Hornby style issues in the future, as competition on the big OEM's continues as pace. Dont forget, change is good for the hobby as the larger manufactures could get greedy and could stop inovating if left alone to trundle along doing the own thing.

The Sound files which are free from ESU are not as good as the former SWD sound projects, I believe they have 'assisted' ESU with the UK Free downloads, also some of the ESU sounds are 'not quite' correct, such as a Class 47 with the wrong Horns etc. BUT so what, they are free !!!

Yes its Skipton.

As we have discussed with the customer, the units have twin decoders, allowing for additional lighting & sound functions to operate as per the real units. The models are fitted here by me and tested and set up to run as a matched pair, these are both addressed as 56 normally unless there are more than one on the order, if so they will have the address on the booklet enclosed. So as discussed, running on DC and not DCC seems to be a controller issue rather than a model issue, but having and trying to read two decoders together 'could' confuse this Bachmann system. Charlie (Realtrack Models/Legomanbiffo sounds)

Oh yes we do: See https://www.dckits-devideos.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=68&product_id=231 When fitted with sounds at each end and a Hi Bass speaker they sound good, IF fitted with Twin EM2 Speakers they sound 'Brilliant'

Just a little feedback on the ESU Free Sound Files, this will probably not worry a lot of people, but I thought its worth mentioning. Class 47 & 57: Does not have the distinctive 'Spoon' sounding horns. plus these two seem to have multiple generic auxiliary sounds, plus the radio announcements with lots of shunting instructions with a few that would suit a mainline locomotive, but half of them are suitable 'possibly' for an 08 shunting in a marshalling yard or large depot !!!.

No problems, happy to help. Charlie