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Thanks Mike

thank you

Thanks to all who have responded. So I assume intermediate / sorting yards would have their own locos to get trains ready, to be added to trains coming in & then continuing on & of course to sort out stock being left at that sorting yard & I again assume that sorting yard would have been advise in advance how many items of rolling stock is being left there for them to sort?

Thanks Mike. my era is 1940-1960s I guess & while shunting at small stations to be done by the train loco, I was not sure if larger stations needed to know how many wagons were being dropped off & handled by local yard loco. My second question was based on assumptions that, that large station would have a local yard crew & a loco to organize wagons ready to be attached incoming trains that continue on .

Thank you - a lot in that thread but nothing I could read, relates to my question.

In the good old days of freight being moved by rail, were large intermediate stations made aware of how many wagons are going to be dropped off an incoming train well before it arrived? And would that large station have a train of wagons already assembled to be added onto the incoming train which was going onto the next station?

Could use one of these http://www.heathcote-electronics.co.uk/point_indicator.html#POINT-INDICATOR-STANDARD

Thank you , food for thought - I may have to enclose/add to the normal overpass that has steps.

Thanks, I was aware of that for smaller stations bit not sure on big stations ( & of course, on my layout the two platforms are different lengths - the second one came after some track changes)

In the 1940's to say 1970's. how did passengers using wheelchairs, get from one platform to another as normally stairs are not viable by ones self - even not perfect having someone control the wheelchair & elevators probably weren't installed in that period of time ? And nowadays passengers use Gophers as well. TIA

Possibly an old monitor/ printer cable may do the trick

Thank you - just read that topic. I will late June try the tacky varnish idea, let it dry, then see if water removes the backing paper OK without upsetting the transfer.

OK so if using water based varnish, place the painted transfer on the wagon, wait until it is completely dry, then wet the paper to slide it off the transfer?

Thank you. the big problem is here in Australia, it is scarcer than rocking horse manure ! Even Amazon Australia can't supply it & Postage cost from USA & UK costs about 3 times the price of the bottle.

I have acquired a few 0 scale kits that use the self-adhesive type Parkside Dundas transfers but it seems the self-adhesive has dried out. Question I have, is it possible to make them sticky again ?

As long as I know the loco number, I program my locos with NCE Procab on the main , no problems.

IPA means Isopropyl alcohol

Well, with some careful work, got it apart by breaking 4 glued joints ( with no help from Dapol)

Well, with some careful work, got it apart by breaking 4 glued joints ( with no help from Dapol)

I have now purchased a few A010 unpainted cattle wagons & wish to be able to remove the body to add a bit more weight & some model cattle but I am at a loss on how to remove the body. Any ideas please?

I have now purchased a few A010 unpainted cattle wagons & wish to be able to remove the body to add a bit more weight & some model cattle but I am at a loss on how to remove the body. Any ideas please?

Replacement bogies arrived today from DCC Supplies under warranty & even without using a gauge, one can see that the flanges on these are finer than the originals - just now have to work out how to get into works ...

The flanges on the Express parcels van from Dapol using the same bogies, has finer flanges than my railcar - even visually, the difference is obvious. Tried it on an unballasted layout - yes OK but with any slight ballast sticking up, the flanges find them - the only motive power unit of my fleet of 28 that does this.

Why not contact DCCconcepts direct ? https://www.dccconcepts.com/contact-us/

Dapol suggested I contact their parts supplier DCCsupplies which I did and they only have complete bogies so I responded... Thanks Richard but no certainty that the flanges of those bogies will allow good running through Peco code 75 turnouts & diamond crossings. The GWR Railcar was on working display tonight on an operating session with 4 mates & they noticed how it bumped through the turnouts & they too checked the flange depth & back to back compared against other Dapol DMUs with the NMRA gauge & said " yes those flanges on the railcar are crap - bet they are not NMRA RP 25/110 recommendations!" That NMRA recommendation is almost identical to https://doubleogauge.com/intermediate-wheels/ I did ask Dapol this Is it because this railcar was an earlier model & the wheel sets have now been upgraded? So a bogie from the same manufacturer has different wheel standards ? and the answer from Kevin Grindley Sales Admin Manager Dapol Ltd was Sorry but I do not know the specifics but, as we use more than 1 factory in China I suppose it is possible that they might be slightly different. So it seems Dapol have no idea of what standards they use.